Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

5644 Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

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  • Reflecting on the City Through Literature
    Daan Wesselman
    This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city - depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting - but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. ...
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    241,39 €

  • Modern Schooling and Trajectories of Exclusion
    A timely enquiry into the disjuncture between schooling and society, this book aims to examine the specific spatialities and temporalities of modern schooling through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the ’provincial other’. ...
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    241,49 €

  • Political Geography of Cities and Regions
    Kees Terlouw
    This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity. This typology is then applied to two different political and historical contexts, namely the trajectories of the Amsterdam metropolitan region in the Netherlands and the Ruhr metropolitan region in Germany. ...
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    73,54 €

  • Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures
    To better understand such technologies’ impact on ethics and sustainability, this book situates digital technologies within a cultural context, arguing that the technology is received differently in different cultural contexts. ...
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    240,78 €

  • Essays on African Population
    Originally published in 1961, this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. ...
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    145,83 €

  • Population Growth and Levels of Consumption
    Belshaw Horace
    Originally published in 1956, this book considers the practical problems of economic development in countries in which the prevailing outlook and a recent or probable increase in population growth make it difficult to escape from a ’Malthusian situation.’ ...
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    146,27 €

  • Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
    Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. ...
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    145,02 €

  • Analysing Population Trends
    Lincoln H. Day
    Originally published in 1983, this book examines the problems of fertility in predicting population trends. It varies a great deal according to mothers’ ages, ethnic groups, place and time. ...
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    146,22 €

  • West European Population Change
    The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the major trends: fertility decline, counter-urbanisation and the cessation of international labour migration from outside the former EEC. ...
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    146,19 €

  • Planning for Population Change
    Originally published in 1986, this book explores many important aspects of the relationship between population change and planning, exploring the impact of population change on service provision and its impact on the policy-making process. ...
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    146,36 €

  • Demographic Patterns in Developed Societies
    R. W. Hiorns
    Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America. ...
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    146,44 €

  • Taking Population Seriously
    Frances Moore-Lappe / Rachel Schurman
    Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world’s success stories on population. ...
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    129,43 €

  • The Growth and Distribution of Population
    S. Vere Pearson
    Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding. ...
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    145,34 €

  • Population Structures and Models
    Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together geographical modelling of population change and demographic analysis of population structures and pattern. ...
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    145,30 €

  • Every Fifth Child
    Leo A. Orleans
    Originally published in 1972, this book illustrates why China’s population problems are complex. It discusses 20th Century phenomena such as the decline in China’s death rate and the possible effects of density pressure on migration, on China’s ethnic minorities and on foreign policy. ...
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    146,57 €

  • Population and the Social Problem
    J. Swinburne
    Originally published in 1924, and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published, the author assumes that people exercise their powers of reproduction near to capacity. ...
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    145,66 €

  • Population Since the Industrial Revolution
    Neil Tranter
    Originally published in 1973, this book is an introduction to the study of population history since the Industrial Revolution and focuses on the experience of England and Wales. ...
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    146,48 €

  • Collective Spatial Cognition
    This book integrates the science of spatial cognition and the science of team cognition to explore the social, psychological, and behavioral phenomenon of spatial cognition as it occurs in human collectives. ...
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    240,64 €

  • Dissertating Geography
    Mette Bruinsma
    This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective. ...
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    241,35 €

  • Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
    Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know th...
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    158,23 €

  • Women, Work and Mobilities
    Nihan Akyelken
    This book explores the wider implications of how low-income moves within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities. It does so with a specific focus on women in urban and regional contexts in Turkey. ...
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    241,46 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies
    This handbook is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. ...
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    333,83 €

  • Humans in the Siberian Landscapes
    This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia. It reveals the patterns of the processes of penetration, settlement, development and adaptation of Siberian populations from Paleolithic time to Russian colonization in the era of the Russian Empire, during So...
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    137,16 €

  • What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals
    Gary Steiner
    This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition’s assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals. ...
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    66,33 €

  • Environment and Health in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
    Rais Akhtar
    This engaging book presents an insightful look into the contributing factors which have shaped the modern public health system in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. This book will be useful for students, researchers and teachers of physical geography, human geography, environmental studies, public health, and health sciences. ...
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    240,87 €

  • What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals
    Gary Steiner
    This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition’s assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Extractive Bargains
    This book is the first to focus on state-led ’extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ’bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critic...
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    193,25 €

  • Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective
    The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain of place and space in cinema and the film industry’s role in establishing cultural connections and economic cooperation between India and Europe. ...
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    240,86 €

  • The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality
    Humairah Zainal / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
    Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ’primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. ...
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    73,51 €

  • The City as Action
    Narendar Pani
    In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places. ...
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    73,65 €


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