Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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  • Eco-History. an Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    D. Rotherham Ian / DRotherham Ian / Ian D. Rotherham / Ian DRotherham
    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that to conserve wildlife or ecology, and to heal the wounds of human impacts, we must understand our own history and how, over coun...
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    50,84 €

  • Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination
    HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into th...
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    112,73 €

  • Changing Deserts
    Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gob...
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    110,25 €

  • Exploration Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About Exploration ScienceHave you wondered what the science of geology is all about?Together we will explore of the surface and sub-surface of the Earth, the sub-branches of geology, including mineralogy, petrology (rocks), palaeontology (fossils), geochemistry, seismology (earthquakes), engineering geology, and many more.The scientific method used by all scientists as well as ...
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    30,12 €

  • E-Learning for Geographers
    Technological advances have created the ability to put lectures, tutorials, and student activities online for academic instructors. However, for most teachers, especially those accustomed to traditional delivery methods, this creates a daunting task that involves radical re-skilling and effort. E-Learning for Geographers: Online Materials, Resources, and Repositories draws less...
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    255,96 €

  • Gendered urban violence among Brazilians
    Cathy McIlwaine / Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja / Paul Heritage
    Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London. ...
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    157,19 €

  • Geography and Education
    David L P Leite / Paulo R M Valentin / Renan Luigi Cavalmoretti Marcelos
    This book brings together some of the work on geography and education developed during my teacher training at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Pontal Campus. The articles were written jointly, with the participation of teachers and fellow students. The book aims to contribute to the process of academic dissemination, democratising scientific knowledge and expanding geograp...
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    54,90 €

  • Comprehensive diagnosis of soil fertility
    Carlos Enrique Castro Méndez
    The previous research was carried out through a documentary analysis focused on specific topics related to plant nutrition applied to crops in general, with a practical approach directed to banana cultivation in the banana growing region of Urabá, located in the department of Antioquia, Colombia.The approach adopted in this study was based on complex thinking, with a transdisci...
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    153,16 €

  • Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know
    Julia Ellen Rogers
    'It is hard to believe that our solid earth was once a ball of seething liquid, like the red-hot iron that is poured out of the big clay cups into the sand moulds at an iron foundry. But when a mountain like Vesuvius sets up a mighty rumbling, and finally a mass of white-hot lava bursts from the centre and streams down the sides, covering the vineyards and olive orchards, and d...
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    16,15 €

  • Resisting Olympic evictions
    Adam Talbot
    Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-event’s spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across the Global South. ...
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    157,72 €

  • ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY IN URBAN PROTECTED AREAS
    Charles Gemaque
    The Utinga State Park (PEUT) is one of the few green areas with the function of preserving biodiversity left over from the urbanization process in Belém. Added to this is the fact that the effectiveness of controlling the use of the park is directly linked to maintaining the quality of the water supply, since it is home to the city’s so-called 'water barn'. In this context, the...
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    85,33 €

  • The Icoaraci waterfront in Belém do Pará
    Erick Afonso Santiago Ramos
    In cities, areas used for activities such as leisure, tourism, gastronomy, entertainment and other joint practices are spaces where there is intense social interaction between different groups, who have different interests behind their practices. Regardless of their use, whether more or less frequent, they tend to establish territories through daily processes, which change thei...
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    76,19 €

  • ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition
    Tripp Corbin GISP
    Leverage the powerful tools in Esri’s ArcGIS Pro to perform geospatial analysisKey FeaturesHarness the power of ArcGIS Pro to build informative maps showcasing your GIS dataAnalyze geospatial data through proximity, spatial statistics, and hotspot analysisIncrease data entry efficiency and quality with advanced geodatabase behaviorPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a...
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    67,70 €

  • The Ethics of Cities
    Timothy Beatley
    Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one. Timothy Beatley challenges readers to consider the issues in our cities not simply as legal or economic problems but as moral ones, ...
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    127,03 €

  • The Ethics of Cities
    Timothy Beatley
    Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one. Timothy Beatley challenges readers to consider the issues in our cities not simply as legal or economic problems but as moral ones, ...
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    35,57 €

  • Tent City, Seattle
    Tony Sparks
    Transforms our understanding of being unhoused in the United StatesTent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments in the city, a type of community that has become more common throughout the West Coast and the United States in the interveni...
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    135,10 €

  • Determining intense rainfall equations for the municipalities of Sergipe
    Geizon Rabelo de Santana
    The author, Geizon Rabelo de Santana, shows how he determined heavy rainfall equations from precipitation data. In this research he determines the equations for the state of Sergipe, Brazil. The main aim of this research is to determine the relationship between the intensity, duration and frequency of heavy rainfall in the form of equations. Almost all the municipalities in Ser...
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    76,25 €

  • The Agrarian Question and Food Security
    Lucas Guedes Vilas Boas
    The book QUESTÃO AGRÁRIA E SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR discusses the reverberations of the insertion of capitalist practices and relations of production and labor in agriculture and, consequently, in food. Based empirically on field research carried out in the municipality of Nepomuceno-MG, one of the largest coffee producers in Brazil and the world, the work addresses the subordinatio...
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    58,41 €

  • Current fluvial dynamics of Oued Lakhdar
    Abdellah Elouiazzani / Mohamed Elghachi
    This work focuses on the study of current fluvial dynamics in the Oued Lakhdar watershed, with an emphasis on mapping and analysis. This basin is located at the north-eastern tip of the Haut-Atlas mountains, and extends mainly over the province of Azilal, with a limited extension into the province of Kelaa Sraghna. Covering an area of 3120.9 km² and a length of 100.69 km, the W...
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    94,93 €

  • Initial training of geography teachers and PIBID
    Michael Wellington Sene
    Initial teacher training is a milestone in a teacher’s professional life. In it, teachers learn a set of skills necessary for their practice, although it is not only this period that conditions teaching professionalism, which is also imbricated in pre-professional experiences and the socialization of work at school. In this sense, there is a complexity implicit in the teacher t...
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    84,42 €

  • The Being of Existential Territories
    Carlos F. Gomes G. de Queirós
    The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) used to say that whatever you can’t count as done, don’t do it. Kant’s moral philosophy offers us the Hypothetical Imperative, which is an 'action-means' to achieve a desired end, like, for example, when our parents told us to study because that was the only way we would get good grades. On the other hand, it also gives us the Ca...
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    55,35 €

  • SPATIAL PATTERN, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION
    SUJATHA M / THULASIMALA D
    This study examines healthcare accessibility and utilization in Chennai City, India. Despite progress, disparities persist. The distribution of Urban Primary Health Centers (UPHCs) varies across zones, with some facing deficits. Accessibility analysis reveals over 90% of the population has excellent access to UPHCs, UCHCs, and hospitals. Factors like distance and travel time si...
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    84,48 €

  • Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction
    The role of literacy instruction extends far beyond traditional English language arts classrooms. Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction delves into the necessary concepts within the realm of literacy across and within various academic disciplines. From the foundational core courses of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies...
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    308,17 €

  • Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction
    The role of literacy instruction extends far beyond traditional English language arts classrooms. Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction delves into the necessary concepts within the realm of literacy across and within various academic disciplines. From the foundational core courses of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies...
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    235,79 €

  • Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
    Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions. ...
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    53,12 €

  • Advancing Rice Agriculture in Nigeria through GIS and AHP
    James Oladimeji
    This research focused on evaluating the sutability of land for rice farming within the Kabba/Bunu local government area, Nigeria, using an integrated approach that combines the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) within a Geographic Information System (GIS). The selection of key factors such as climate, soil, topography, and land use/land cover (LULC) was guided by the FAO’s guide...
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    60,26 €

  • European cities
    European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thoughtful action. ...
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    44,14 €

  • The process of urban verticalization in Guarapuava-PR
    Paulo Tumasz Junior
    The process of urban verticalization has been growing over time in urban spaces all over the world. Brazil is no different, and in recent decades this process has also been expanding to medium-sized cities. In this work, we present the dynamics of this process in a medium-sized Brazilian city, Guarapuava - PR, and discuss its expansion in this urban space. This work is the resu...
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    69,85 €

  • Coastal-marine territories and 'management strategies'
    Francisco Wendell Dias Costa
    This study presents Conservation Units as part of the instruments of the National Environmental Policy. In this sense, the aim of the work is to analyse the actions of those involved in the socio-environmental management process of the Cururupu Marine Extractive Reserve, based on the methodological approach of Historical-Dialectical Materialism. In order to carry out the resear...
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    92,29 €

  • Climate and Cardiovascular Diseases
    Evoneis Farias Natal
    This work is a contribution to studies on climate and human health, with an emphasis on diseases of circulatory origin. With this in mind, this study aimed to analyze the influence of climate variables on mortality from diseases of the circulatory system in the Federal District between 2003 and 2012. It was found that fluctuations in climate variables - temperature and relative...
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    70,04 €


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