Catálogo de libros: Geografía

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Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Gendered Infrastructures
    Yaffa Truelove
    Brings together feminist and geographical approaches to the gendered dimensions of various types of infrastructure across the globe. The first book to take a feminist geographical approach to infrastructure, Gendered Infrastructures delves into the complex relationships between identity, social relations, and infrastructure. By drawing on feminist scholarship to enable new fra...
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    40,18 €

  • Evaluation Of Solid Waste Management In Imperatriz - Ma
    Elza Ribeiro Dos Santos Neta / Jhonatan Oliveira Silva
    The proper disposal of waste from various human activities is a major challenge for society. This research therefore investigates the performance of solid waste management in the municipality of Imperatriz in 2016 and 2017. To this end, a bibliographic survey was initially carried out, followed by field research at the Municipal Department of Infrastructure, Transportation and ...
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    60,32 €

  • Car Washes and Environmental Impacts in the Urban Area of João Lisboa
    Elza Ribeiro Dos Santos Neta / Williames Pereira Do Nascimento
    Water is a natural resource that is essential for human survival and has become an asset of high social and economic value. In João Lisboa over the years there have been several problems related to the consumption and waste of water resources arising from the activities carried out by car washes in the city’s urban perimeter. Thus, this study aimed to analyze car washes and the...
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    60,20 €

  • Environment, Health And Quality Of Life
    Elza Ribeiro Dos Santos Neta / Reijane Sousa Almeida / Rozana Sousa Almeida
    This research addresses the issue of the environment, health and quality of life, with an emphasis on the public water supply in the Vila Vitória neighborhood in Imperatriz - MA. The main objective of the research is to analyze the quality of the water offered to the population of the Vila Vitória neighborhood, as well as to identify the reasons why residents do not have water ...
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    60,26 €

  • Geospatial analysis of dengue fever in João Pessoa, Cabedelo and Bayeux
    Caio Américo Pereira Almeida
    Dengue is one of the most important arboviruses transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. The spread of the dengue virus is influenced by the socio-environmental conditions of a given place, which facilitate the dispersal of its main vector, Aedes Aegypti. In this context, the author seeks to analyze the spread of dengue cases through the use of statistics,...
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    69,97 €

  • 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 €

  • Agricultural farming practices in the face of climate change
    Nougbodjingni Damien Makponse
    In recent years, the land pact region has experienced the vulnerability and adverse effects of climate change. This research analyses the adaptation strategies used by farmers to improve their living conditions. The methodology used consists of collecting, processing and analysing results based on 120 farmers in two districts of each commune. The field results reveal that the i...
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    54,90 €

  • Land control and strategies of food-insecure households
    Oumarou Abdou
    Access to and control over land varies according to the level of vulnerability of rural households. The least vulnerable have the best land in terms of surface area and fertility. The most vulnerable have limited access to farmland. They no longer control this vital productive capital because of their extreme vulnerability, which forces them to pledge, rent or sell it. The land...
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    50,99 €

  • Wood energy and its consequences
    Charles Benam
    Wood energy remains a major concern in the Dodjé/Tchad forest massif, where its use for cooking and brewing local beers is recurrent. The aim of this research is to assess the area of woody plant cover exploited as fuelwood and to propose strategies for sustainable management. To carry out the study, books, dissertations and articles were consulted in various libraries and inst...
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    60,13 €

  • The Acacia tortilis (A. raddiana) forest-steppe of Tunisia
    Mohamed Sghaier ZAAFOURI
    This book, 'the dream of my youth', is in two parts, a general summary and a conclusion. A bibliography of some 570 references relating to the Acacia tortilis taxon in Tunisia and worldwide, and to the Gommier forest-steppe and its floristic procession at Bled Talah, completes the book. The first part deals with the taxonomic denomination and systematic classification of the sp...
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    129,56 €

  • The Faith That Transcends Humanity
    Ishaq Mir
    In the universe created by nature, which embraces billions of human beings, countless elements spread hatred and hence drive away the harmony between the universe and nature. The universe is in danger due to the negative thinking of such anti-human elements. Since the universe nourishes us all equally, to spread hatred is like biting the hand that feeds us. If human beings livi...
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    6,19 €

  • The Complex Landscape of Asylum and Refuge in Europe
    Parihar Maninder
    'The Complex Landscape of Asylum and Refuge in Europe' is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted challenges surrounding migration in Europe. The book, organized into fourteen chapters, delves into critical issues shaping the region’s asylum policies. From the nexus between migration pressures and terrorism concerns to the fate of irregular migration, it navigates throu...
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    66,20 €


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