| |
A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. Indispensable companion for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
PDF
|
A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
PDF
|
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Short Introductions to Geography
PDF
|
This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF
|
Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-08-23
PDF
|
The idea for this book emerged from a conversation between Vivian Forbes and Charles Eaton following two seminars held in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Australia given by Trevor So?eld and Christopher Grif?n more than ?ve years ago. One...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-06-30
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
PDF
|
Jan Lambooy retired in October 2002. WhenJan was asked how he wanted to celebrate this occasion, he was adamant that no great festivities should take place. Characteristically,Jan wanted just a scientific conference so he “could learn something from it” and, as he...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-03-30
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
PDF
|
This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-23
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
PDF
|
Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea of a national park are a continuing reality of contemporary national and transnational parks. The volume seeks...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-01-14
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
PDF
|
In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-09-10
PDF
|
Recent years have seen a lively debate over the role of tacit knowledge and interactive learning in privileging the local over the global. Yet, our continuing inability to answer questions such as 'when and why is the local important in production and innovation...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-02-19
PDF
|
Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-01-15
PDF, ePub
|
Over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters in both scientific research and public interest. Global concerns have arisen particularly surrounding global warming, the emission of toxic chemicals, threats to biodiversity,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-01-08
PDF
|
This book represents five and a half years of work by the ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data during the 1991- 95 ICA cycle. The effort began with the Commission working to develop a set of scientific characteristics by which every kind of...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
1997-07-03
PDF sans DRM
|
This book, Biological Soil & Water Conservation: The Vetiver-grass as an Example, is one example.
The book is a simple orientation about using vetiver Grass as a straightforward method of applying biological soil and water conservation methods in smallholder farmers'...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-04-28
epub sans DRM
|
Infrastructure rethought
Do you also sometimes worry that the increasing traffic is robbing you of time and money? And do you also wish to live in your own four walls? What infrastructure policy can offer us a homeland worth living in without being at the expense of...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2022-09-13
epub sans DRM
|
Infrastructure rethought
Do you also sometimes worry that the increasing traffic is robbing you of time and money? And do you also wish to live in your own four walls? What infrastructure policy can offer us a homeland worth living in without being at the expense of...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2022-09-13
epub sans DRM
|