Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • The Social Framework of Agriculture
    Harold H. Mann
    Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India, but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India. In the text of this book we reproduce thirty-five of the author’s papers - in whole, in part, or in summary. ...
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    81,32 €

  • Hydraulic and Environmental Modelling
    First published in 1992, this is the second of two volumes on recent advances in the field of hydraulic and environmental modelling, with invited and refereed contributions from an international group of engineers, scientists and planners involved in application, research and development. It covers the estuarine and river waters with parts devoted to: flow processes; flow model...
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    81,36 €

  • Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore, and Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula
    Ivor H. N. Evans
    Originally published in 1923, the following papers contain the results of investigations concerning religion and custom in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, which were carried out at intervals during the years 1910 to 1921 by the author. ...
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    64,78 €

  • Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters
    The frequency and intensity of hazards and disasters is increasing worldwide. This book provides a comprehensive overview of cutting edge trends in governance research, exploring how risks, hazards, and disasters can be mainstreamed into a governance framework. ...
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    72,90 €

  • New Geographies of the Globalized World
    Marcin Wojciech Solarz
    This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the wor...
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    73,33 €

  • Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems
    The goal of the book is to fill the gap in the knowledge on silvo-pastoral systems and their changing trends, by adding the human dimension, with enough detail to draw inferences about the new governance solutions that are needed to address the multiple challenges faced by silvo-pastoral systems. ...
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    240,57 €

  • Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
    This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Young People, Wellbeing and Sustainable Arctic Communities
    This first scholarly edited volume based on field research with Arctic Youth from three continents contributes to a theory of well-being and place-making grounded in the Arctic - a region usually associated more with hostile conditions for human inhabitation. ...
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    240,91 €

  • International Trade of Secondhand Goods
    This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade. It highlights the actors involved in the trade of secondhand goods and how traditionally secondhand good have largely been traded through social or ethnic networks in order to effectively transfer quality and market information. ...
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    194,06 €

  • Cyclones in Southern Africa
    Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. This focus has been magnified by the need to consider tropical cyclones in the context of other global development agendas, that includes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its inseparable 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
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    222,29 €

  • Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education
    Sarah Mills
    This book explores the growth of ’character education’ in schools and youth organisations over the last decade. It delves into historical and contemporary debates through a geopolitical lens. ...
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    241,48 €

  • Making Deep Maps
    This book explores how we create deep maps, delving into the development of methods and approaches that move beyond standard two-dimensional cartography. ...
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    241,21 €

  • Transport Geopolitics
    Luc Ampleman
    This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives. It questions both the dominant understanding of what is geopolitics and conventional conceptions in transport geography used by transport...
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    156,78 €

  • Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity
    Reidar Staupe-Delgado
    The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred.  ...
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    241,45 €

  • Disasters and Neoliberalism
    This book shows how the adoption of the neoliberal development model has increased the social vulnerability to disasters, with a special focus on Mexico, a country which once was the role model of the neoliberal turn in Latin America. It brings together 12 case studies of disasters such as floods, earthquakes and volcanic emergencies, in both urban and rural areas, to show how ...
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    136,39 €

  • Contemporary Applications of Actor Network Theory
    Idongesit Williams
    This book provides empirically driven discussions and investigations in the relevance of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and its theoretical concepts. As our civilization evolves from a human to a technologically driven society, new socio-technical network of actors - in society, industry and government are emerging by the day. These networks of actors collaborate to produce contemp...
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    160,94 €

  • Flood Resources Utilization in the Yangtze River Basin
    Qiang Zou / Shouren Zheng / Zhiyu Zhong
    This book is highly informative and carefully presented, providing scientific insights into the flood resources utilization in the Yangtze River Basin both for scholars and decision-makers. The book is for the purpose of analyzing the potential utilization of flood resources in the Yangtze River Basin and exploring effective ways to put forward the countermeasures against the r...
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    136,53 €

  • Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy
    Long Cheng
    This book discusses contemporary China’s land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development. Given the limited analyses and commentaries on the Link Policy in the literature, particularly in English-language articles, the book systematicall...
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    68,30 €

  • Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
    Robert McDonald / Timothy Beatley
    ​This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urb...
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    79,40 €

  • Contesting the Olympics in American Cities
    Greg Andranovich / Matthew J. Burbank
    This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using detailed case ...
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    77,70 €

  • Jerusalem Online
    Valentina Carraro
    The book addresses the rapid shifts which have taken place within cartography, and argues that no amount of technological sophistication will lead to neutral representations, and that as such critical cartography provides a solid foundation for questioning the power of maps. It considers the fragmentation, dynamism and opacity that characterise online maps, and argues for the n...
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    48,62 €

  • Spatial Economics Volume I
    Stefano Colombo
    Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity. Spatial Economics is the branch of economics that explicitly aims to incorporate the space dimension in the analysis of economic phenomena. From its beginning in the last century, Spatial Economics has contributed to the understanding of the economy by developing plenty of theoretical models as well as econometric techniques...
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    170,50 €

  • Geo-societal Narratives
    This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature.The authors introduce two perspectives of societal geosciences, bot...
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    193,92 €

  • Discourses on Sustainability
    This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development. Exploring various responses to human-induced climate change, the book offers a critical reflectio...
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    158,75 €

  • Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida
    Anne Barjolin-Smith
    Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs. Focusing on Florida’s unexplored surfing culture, the book illustrates how musical experience begets representations about the world that highlight ways of acting and being of various sociocultural communities. Based on the conceptualization of ethno-aesthetics, this ethnographic st...
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    68,85 €

  • Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management
    With contributions from academics across the globe, this book showcases how you can use data analysis for better and more effective urban planning and management. ...
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    56,78 €

  • The Antarctic Politics of Brazil
    Ignacio Javier Cardone
    This book focuses on the connection between Brazil and Antarctica, two regions that can be seen as distant and contrasting, but are physically, culturally and politically associated. Relying on archival material and previous literature, the book offers a thorough account of Brazil’s involvement with one of the most significant regions in the global environment. The author explo...
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    169,18 €

  • Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics
    This book discusses theoretical backgrounds, techniques and methodologies, and applications of the current state-of-the-art human dynamics research utilizing social media and geospatial big data. It describes various forms of social media and big data with location information, theory development, data collection and management techniques, and analytical methodologies to conduc...
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    171,84 €

  • Skateboard Video
    Duncan McDuie-Ra
    This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ’below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, captu...
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    78,85 €

  • Jerusalem Online
    Valentina Carraro
    The book addresses the rapid shifts which have taken place within cartography, and argues that no amount of technological sophistication will lead to neutral representations, and that as such critical cartography provides a solid foundation for questioning the power of maps. It considers the fragmentation, dynamism and opacity that characterise online maps, and argues for the n...
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    77,58 €


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