Catálogo de libros: Geografía humana

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  • COVID-19 in Italy
    Felice Addeo / Gabriella Punziano / Lucia Velotti
    This book examines people’s risk perception and perceived trustworthiness of sources and channels of information together with the adoption of protective behaviors, and their support for policies in light to their cultural worldviews. ...
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    35,82 €

  • Space and Time in Thai-Lao Relations
    Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Wisaijorn explores how the concepts of space and temporality in traditional geopolitics have influenced the understanding of the Thai-Lao border since Laos became independent in 1954. ...
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    73,73 €

  • The Complexities of Home in Social Work
    Carole Zufferey / Christopher Horsell
    Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how ’home’ is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential. ...
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    70,63 €

  • Excessive Inequality and Socio-Economic Progress
    Dalia Streimikiene / Lina Volodzkienė / Ona Gražina Rakauskienė
    The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels. This book seeks to develop frameworks for the assessment of excessive inequality and its impact on social-economic progress and sustainable development. ...
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    73,26 €

  • Industrial Geography in Contemporary China
    Canfei He
    This title provides an overall view of industrial geography in the context of contemporary China and investigates the development processes, research paradigms and achievements of China’s industrial geography, with a particular focus on the post-reform period. ...
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    109,24 €

  • Population and the Political Imagination
    R.B. Bhagat
    This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state, citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration, population and citizen registers, and the politics of classificatory governmentality. ...
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    73,54 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage
    This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience. ...
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    86,32 €

  • Over Researched Places
    The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. ...
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    73,57 €

  • The Story of Geographical Discovery
    Joseph Jacobs
    'The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known' is a historical work by Joseph Jacobs that explores the fascinating journey of human exploration and the gradual unveiling of the world’s geographical mysteries. Published in 1888, the book provides a comprehensive account of the major discoveries and advancements in geographical knowledge up until that time.Jose...
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    12,48 €

  • The COVID-19 - Health Systems Nexus
    This contributed volume, based on papers presented at a conference held in Zimbabwe in mid-2021, examines the nexus between Zimbabwe’s health systems and the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of papers contained here is diverse and covers topics from how health systems handled (or didn’t handle) surges to health communication during a global pandemic to economic and environment...
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    173,28 €

  • Researching animal research
    Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century. ...
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    51,71 €

  • Delivering on the Climate Emergency
    Aysu Kuru / Deo Prasad / Philip Oldfield
    This book focuses on the transition towards net-zero carbon built environments to deliver on the climate emergency. It provides an evidence-based roadmap and proposes guidelines to achieving targets covering emerging technologies, materials, innovative design, regulations and policies. ...
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    173,12 €

  • Geo-Topology
    Fivos Papadimitriou
    Geo-Topology is an exploration of the depth and breadth of the relationships between Geography and Topology, with applications ranging from Landscape Geography to Social Geography and from Spatial Analysis to Geospatial Technologies.  It shows how topics of geographical research (landscapes, borders, spatial social relationships etc) can be examined by using mathematical concep...
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    196,11 €

  • Culture and Archaeology of the Ancestral Unangax̂/Aleut of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Debra Corbett / Diane Hanson
    For the past 9,000 years, people lived and flourished along the 1,000-mile Aleutian archipelago reaching from the American continent nearly to Asia. The Aleutian chain and surrounding waters supported 40,000 or more people before the Russians arrived. Despite the antiquity of continuous human occupation, the size of the area, and the fascinating and complex social organization,...
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    70,36 €

  • Introduction to Human Geography
    Katherine Butler
    Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. It also cites various features, facts and details about the different races and culture of people inhabiting. The book also gives a researched analysis on the culture and customs and how they have grown and developed over the years. The research shows impact of geograph...
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    166,20 €

  • Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks. ...
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    375,74 €

  • Thinking Geographically
    Alaric Maude
    This book explains how the concepts of geography can teach young people to think geographically, deeply and ethically. Rich with visual and practical examples, this book is an essential resource for geography teachers, whether already teaching or studying to become one, and for those who teach therm. ...
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    62,18 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals
    The Routledge International Handbook on Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals answers the question: What is the contribution of social development and social work to the Sustainable Development Goals? ...
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    374,56 €

  • Africa
    Alan B Mountjoy / Clifford Embleton
    First published in 1965, Africa provides a geographical, political, economic and social description of the continent. ...
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    325,68 €

  • Thinking Geographically
    Alaric Maude
    This book explains how the concepts of geography can teach young people to think geographically, deeply and ethically. Rich with visual and practical examples, this book is an essential resource for geography teachers, whether already teaching or studying to become one, and for those who teach therm. ...
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    240,78 €

  • GEOGRAPHY OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN CHINA
    CHENGLIANG LIU
    Technology transfer studies are usually framed through Economics and Management Sciences, but this volume Geography of Technology Transfer in China seeks to reveal the mechanism of technology transfer from the geographical perspective. It not only depicts the spatial evolution laws of glocal technology transfer networks, but also uses regression models to uncover the two-way ef...
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    194,82 €

  • Biographical Life Course Research
    Ann Nilsen
    This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American pragmatist thought and Chicago qualitative sociology in the early 20th century to the revival of biographical research ...
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    72,77 €

  • Africa
    Alan Dixon / Etienne Nel / Tony Binns
    Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space. ...
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    216,82 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
    The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. ...
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    375,15 €

  • Everyday Life-Environmentalism
    This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. ...
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    240,72 €

  • Horses, Power and Place
    Neil Ward
    Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity’s relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset. ...
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    241,20 €

  • Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia
    John Connell / Kirstie Petrou
    This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations. In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labo...
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    206,60 €

  • Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata
    Diti Bhattacharya
    This insightful book unfolds the boipara, exploring the acts of thinking and writing about space and place in the context of recent key conversations at the intersections of cultural geographies, mobilities, materialities and heritage studies. ...
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    88,64 €

  • Artificial Intelligence and the City
    This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban society, urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban sustainability. ...
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    69,08 €

  • Women in Agriculture
    Ashok Khandelwal / Shipra Deo
    This research monograph is about women farmers in India who are engaged primarily in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits and predominantly belong to small and marginal land holdings households. ...
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    241,33 €