Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • Landslide distribution in Katana
    Gérard Cubaka / Isaac Matabaro
    This work focused on the study of landslides in the East of the Rdcongo, in the province of Suk-Kivu, in the territory of Katana, on a sector that covers the grouping of Katana, Mushweshwe and Birava. It was a question of making an inventory of phenomena related to the instability of the slopes, categorizing them and determining the factors that favor their appearance in this r...
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    60,20 €

  • Environment and integrated development projects in Burkina Faso
    Drabo Ibrahima
    The integrated development projects carried out in the Sahel countries in general and in Burkina Faso in particular have mostly been failures. Those that are underway are far from achieving the expected results. Faced with these repeated failures, decision-makers and development agencies have decided to make Environmental Education (EE) an essential approach to action in the ma...
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    84,16 €

  • Availability and accessibility to drinking water
    Yaya Malo
    Poor access to drinking water and sanitation hinders a country’s development on both an economic and human level. Third World countries in general and those of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in particular are confronted with problems of drinking water, hygiene and sanitation. According to the 2006 report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the lack of water and sanitati...
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    96,23 €

  • Morphological and hydrographic mapping
    Yaya Malo
    The sandstone plateau of the Houet province (Hauts-Bassins region) constitutes the southeastern edge of the Taoudéni sedimentary basin. This study on geomorphological mapping is conducted there. It is clear that mapping is nowadays a tool of choice in morphological studies in general and geomorphological studies in particular. The existing geomorphological maps of the sandstone...
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    84,22 €

  • Emergence of the mobile internet
    Hervé Tsoala Kuété
    This work is the result of fieldwork conducted in the city of Dschang (West Cameroon) on the emergence of mobile Internet and the problem of the profitability of cybercafés. Based on a survey of randomly selected stakeholders, it was found that the emergence of mobile telephony with its multiple new functions and the use of the Internet have strongly revolutionized the lives of...
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    69,78 €

  • (Re)spatial organization of the municipality of Lagoa Santa - MG
    Maíra Patrícia Fernandes Campolina
    Many territories are reorganized in the light of the logic of growth of urban vectors, such as the Northern vector of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte that rearranged the municipal space of Lagoa Santa - MG. To understand how these processes occur and their consequences, including for the environment, this is a reading that may open new horizons for the understanding o...
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    98,83 €

  • The Industrial Development Patterns and Potentials in Sikar District
    Manisha Sharma
    The book 'The Industrial Development Patterns and Potentials in Sikar District, Rajasthan: A Geographical Analysis' provides an in-depth analysis of the industrial development patterns and potentials in Sikar district, Rajasthan. The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of the district’s industrial development.The book provides a comprehensive ...
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    130,79 €

  • Factors in the increase of floods from Niger to Benin
    Abraham A. Ayéna / Idelbert D. Behanzin / Tchékpo Théodore Adjakpa
    During the decade 2006-2016, floods recorded in West Africa have increased in a context of decreasing rainfall. The present study aims to analyze the factors of the increase in floods in the Niger River basin in Benin, more precisely in the Communes of Malanville and Karimama. It was carried out using the Accelerated Participatory Research Method (APRM). The qualitative and qua...
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    68,80 €

  • Characterization and assessment of impacts on geodiversity
    Gonzalo Schneider
    Geodiversity is considered a feature of utmost importance for tourism valorization, and as an opportunity for the regions that possess natural and cultural resources, in addition to this, it gives the possibility of developing an activity with the capacity to dynamize the region, such as tourism. This territorial property is the basis for the development of activities by touris...
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    82,78 €

  • River dynamics of the upper Pantanal of Mato Grosso
    Célia Alves de Souza / Edenio Sebastião Faria da Silva
    The book is the result of a study conducted on the Paraguay river between Furado do Touro and Passagem Velha, in the municipality of Cáceres, Mato Grosso, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, presenting initially information on the environmental elements (geology, precipitation, soils, and vegetation) and on the use of the river and the floodplain of the Paraguay river. The second p...
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    75,33 €

  • Technology, Climate and social disasters in Tanzania
    Abdillah Kitota / Juma Chibololo / Salum Hamisi
    This book focuses on engineering-related disasters, particularly traffic accidents. And within the framework of traffic accidents, those caused by motorcycles are focused in the Morogoro region. This book has also dealt with meteorological, biological and human catastrophes. And right now, a hot topic is climate change. This book has brought together two hot climate change issu...
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    85,65 €

  • Change Detection in the Forest Area Coverages
    Md. Sabbir Hasan
    Sundarban is the largest mangrove forest in the world, situated on the border of Bangladesh and India. The two third area of the forest is lays in our country, Bangladesh. So it is a matter of pride that we have such a big mangrove forest like Sundarban. The position of forest is the South-West coastal zone of Bangladesh. Most of the time big natural disasters like cyclones occ...
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    61,76 €

  • Morphological Aspects of the Main Rivers in Bangladesh
    Faruq Ahmed Mohiuddin
    This study analyzes the changing trends of channel pattern of the Jamuna River. The aim of this work is to carry out a census (historical evolution) of the braided channels of the Jamuna River and to establish a topology (specific types) based on basic geomorphic indicators. The Jamuna River morphological continuum is two-dimensional, defined by plan features of which are three...
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    61,51 €

  • Of the arrival of the species by the sea
    Catherine Morzelle
    The arrival by the sea: This essay shows that the arrival of the human species in Eurasia, was done by the sea. The journey was made with the Indian plate. It was isolated about 190 M years ago. Around 70 million years, the pressure of the Indian plate causes the beginning of the tectonic shock that creates an extinction and raises the Himalayas. The passengers of the Indian pl...
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    103,50 €

  • THE WATER DISTRIBUTION AND ACCESS QUESTION IN NORTHERN CAMEROON
    MOUM A NDONG Mohamet Jafet
    Water access is among the major problems faced by populations in northern Cameroon given that it is a zone located in the dry tropics with temperatures above 35°c, characterized by little rainfalls (500 - 900mm/year) and a long dry season of 7 to 9 months. As a result, water resources though abundant during the rainy season become scarce in the dry season. In the town of Mokolo...
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    97,44 €

  • Population Dynamics and Family Planning
    L.P. Lakhera / Narendra Kumar
    This book has been written carrying minor variations based on suggestions from eminent academics of human geography in the Doctoral thesis entitled 'An Appraisal of Population Dynamics and Family Welfare Programme in Hardoi District (Uttar Pradesh)' submitted in H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand.This book has made an attempt to address human issues like population dynamics...
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    160,98 €

  • Contribution to the correct perception of depredations due to animals
    BIODATA KOUAO Marthe
    The destruction of forests has reached a peak in Côte d’Ivoire, resulting in a restriction of the living area of wild animals. This restriction has induced, among other consequences, an increase in human-wildlife conflicts (HWC), which are still prevalent. This type of conflict takes different forms, the most common of which in Africa, and particularly in Côte d’Ivoire, is the ...
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    58,82 €

  • Turning up the heat
    The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change. ...
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    169,20 €

  • Turning up the heat
    The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change. ...
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    43,85 €

  • The power of pragmatism
    Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. ...
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    44,05 €

  • Threads
    Edie Ayala
    After a tragic loss, a woman becomes obsessed with knitting and hoarding magnificent little sweaters. When one of them is inadvertently shipped to Chile, it’s stolen by a poverty-stricken single mother, and the two women are connected in more ways than one. Irene’s life in a privileged neighborhood of small town Canada is all going according to plan. But when she loses a child ...
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    18,15 €

  • THE ROLE OF JAPANESE IDE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    Clara Di Fazio
    Japan, now the world’s third largest economy after the United States and the People’s Republic of China, plays a key role in the Asian and international environment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the financial instrument suitable for companies’ acquisitions of new products, technology and control in foreign businesses and is encouraged by governments to enhance their econo...
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    73,87 €

  • Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design
    Kelly L. Anderson
    ’Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design’ is premised on a belief in the importance of participatory practices in finding creative solutions to the plethora of problems we face today. It argues that engaging professions with the public in mutual exploration, analysis, and creative thinking is essential. It not only ensures better quality products, places, ser...
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    64,82 €

  • Rural quality of life
    Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in general in the diversity in lived quality of rural life ...
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    193,04 €

  • Integrated Soil Management Practices
    Abera Abiyo Dofee / Teshome Yirgu Bayu
    This book is based on MSc Thesis report which aimed at assessing and exploring integrated soil management practices in rehabilitating degraded lands, in Southern Ethiopia. The socio-economic as well as the demographic data that have relevance to the study was collected and both the indigenous and modern soil management practices are explored using questionnaire surveys, focus g...
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    94,88 €

  • Population induced farm diversification and socioeconomic development
    FONDZE Gilbert BAMBOYE
    Population in the North West Region of Cameroon has been growing fast since the fourth five-year development plan (1976-1981) that created necessary for such a growth pattern. This growth that eventually increased pressure on agricultural land through the years prompted the farming population to react in a bid to produce more to feed themselves, other dependent groups and to ge...
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    110,44 €

  • Living with water
    This interdisciplinary collection highlights the ways in which water is an irreducible part of the way we live. ...
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    169,48 €

  • POPULAR HOUSING AND SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION IN IMPERATRIZ-MA
    Izamara de Abreu Lima / José Geraldo Pimentel Neto / Keilha Correia da Silveira
    The study analyzes the production of urban space in medium-sized Amazonian cities, highlighting the socio-spatial dynamics peculiar to the city of Imperatriz- MA. The objective is to understand the process of socio-spatial segregation in the perception of the residents of the Recanto Universitário housing complex in Imperatriz (MA) and its relations with the contemporary housin...
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    61,76 €

  • Expatriate
    Sarah Kunz
    Expatriate offers an in-depth study of the history and politics of the category expatriate. The book works across multiple sites to tell situated stories about the category’s (re)making, contestation and lived experience and shows that migration is a key terrain on which colonial power relations are reproduced, reworked and translated today. ...
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    157,28 €

  • BIODIVERSITY OF LAKES AND TANKS IN KOLHAPUR CITY, MAHARASHTRA
    Rushikesh Patil
    The current study examines ecosystem diversity in general, it focuses specifically on the wetland biodiversity found in the city’s lakes and tanks. Researchers have used questionnaires, interviews, and photographs to catalogue the flora and fauna of the study area. Information about the fish and amphibians of lakes has been compiled with the help of fishermen and locals. Photog...
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    85,65 €


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