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  • Planetary Emergency
    Kent D Shifferd
    Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet’s life support systems. Deteriorating climate bringing super storms, mass forest fires, melting glaciers, droughts, extreme heat and rising seas, a decline in food production, soil loss, water pollution and declining fisheries all threaten the future of life on earth with a loomin...
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    42,42 €

  • The Environment
    Libby Robin / Paul Warde / Sverker Sörlin
    Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature--nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they ...
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    34,29 €

  • The Global Address System | Maps/Globes/Geographic Tools | Social Studies 6th Grade | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    Study the Global Address System using this book on social studies for sixth graders. Learn how to read maps, globes, and use geographic tools. Can your child try to locate the North and South Poles based on the Antarctic and Arctic Circles? Although locating address is easy with the use of technology, there is a distinct form of happiness in locating addresses using skill and c...
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    19,40 €

  • Major Rivers of the World | Earth Geography Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    This time, you will read about the longest river in North America. Where does the Mississippi River begin and end? In which states does it flow through? What is the significant of the Mississippi River in the shaping of North American history and culture? If you are interested about geography and the major rivers in the world, then this book should be added to your collection. ...
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    19,67 €

  • The Global Address System | Maps/Globes/Geographic Tools | Social Studies 6th Grade | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    Study the Global Address System using this book on social studies for sixth graders. Learn how to read maps, globes, and use geographic tools. Can your child try to locate the North and South Poles based on the Antarctic and Arctic Circles? Although locating address is easy with the use of technology, there is a distinct form of happiness in locating addresses using skill and c...
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    29,45 €

  • Major Rivers of the World | Earth Geography Grade 4 | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    This time, you will read about the longest river in North America. Where does the Mississippi River begin and end? In which states does it flow through? What is the significant of the Mississippi River in the shaping of North American history and culture? If you are interested about geography and the major rivers in the world, then this book should be added to your collection. ...
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    29,72 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
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    256,65 €

  • In Exile
    Jessica Dubow
    In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition; but also makes secular claims out of Judaism’s theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter ...
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    160,89 €

  • Manufactured Uncertainty
    Lorraine Code
    Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change. ...
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    44,67 €

  • Manufactured Uncertainty
    Lorraine Code
    Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change. ...
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    126,99 €

  • The Practice of Human Development and Dignity
    Although deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this gap by showing the implications of human dignity for international development the...
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    84,52 €

  • The New Generation Z in Asia
    The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalization is the first book to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990-1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplinary and international scientific research. ...
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    152,57 €

  • Where the Desert Meets the Mountains
    PhD Marta Stiefel Ayala / PhD Reynaldo Ayala
    Southern California is a region of great geologic and topographic diversity. The land in this region may be divided into four natural landform areas or provinces, mainly based on distinctive physiographic characteristics. This monograph will concern itself only with a portion of two of these natural regions: the Colorado Desert Province and the Peninsular Ranges Province. The g...
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    17,96 €

  • Research Ethics for Human Geography
    Helen Wilson
    An essential resource, Research Ethics for Human Geography is an engaging introduction to key ethical issues in geographical research; edited and authored by leading figures in the discipline. ...
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    186,23 €

  • Research Ethics for Human Geography
    Helen Wilson
    An essential resource, Research Ethics for Human Geography is an engaging introduction to key ethical issues in geographical research; edited and authored by leading figures in the discipline. ...
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    65,85 €

  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly 'westward-looking orientation' in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, ...
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    92,88 €

  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
    David Bole / Janez Nared
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental...
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    63,45 €

  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
    Daniel Baldwin Hess / Tiit Tammaru
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly 'westward-looking orientation' in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, ...
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    77,37 €

  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
    David Bole / Janez Nared
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental...
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    77,81 €

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
    Birgit Glorius / Jeroen Doomernik
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and th...
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    67,20 €

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities
    Birgit Glorius / Jeroen Doomernik
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and th...
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    82,71 €

  • Mobilities of Knowledge
    Heike Jöns / Michael Heffernan / Peter Meusburger
    This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual appr...
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    72,10 €

  • Knowledge and Action
    Benno Werlen / Laura Suarsana / Peter Meusburger
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain...
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    83,93 €

  • Mobilities of Knowledge
    Heike Jöns / Michael Heffernan / Peter Meusburger
    This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual appr...
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    86,47 €

  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation
    Franziska Görmar / Thilo Lang
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underly...
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    77,68 €

  • The Places Where Community Is Practiced
    Anna Steigemann
    In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the con...
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    87,53 €

  • Knowledge and Action
    Benno Werlen / Laura Suarsana / Peter Meusburger
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain...
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    68,41 €

  • Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation
    Franziska Görmar / Thilo Lang
    Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underly...
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    93,18 €

  • Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
    Judith Ehlert / Nora Katharina Faltmann
    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further put...
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    73,09 €

  • Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
    Judith Ehlert / Nora Katharina Faltmann
    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further put...
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    87,45 €