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Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization. Routine blue-collar work has been going offshore for decades, but the digital revolution beginning in the 1990s extended this process to many parts of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book addresses the role and importance of space in the respective fields of the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses how map representations and mapping processes can inform ongoing intellectual debates or open new avenues for scholarly inquiry within...
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Springer
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2017-02-10
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Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas,...
Editeur :
Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2017-01-18
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Global Cities and Urban Theory provides an innovative set of approaches to understanding some of the world's major cities, working with concepts such as smart cities, volumetric urbanism, and critical accounting to illustrate the everyday agents and practices that place...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-13
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The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-05
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The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-17
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In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Über drei Generationen hinweg untersucht Hannah Müggenburg den Einfluss von Lebensereignissen als sensible Phasen für Veränderungen auf das Verkehrshandeln von Studierenden an der TU Dortmund, deren Eltern und Großeltern. Die quantitative Studie zeichnet mittels einer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-14
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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In this new fifth edition, there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms, human activity, and population growth. The new edition also looks technologies that urban transportation planners are...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-16
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Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-06-15
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This book answers the call for New
Urbanization, and proposes
a “5+9+6” national
spatial layout plan for the urbanization
of the 770 major cities in China.This macro pattern is based on a few
major metropolises at the center, and other cities supporting and benefitting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-25
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This book sheds light on Sir Peter Hall’s visions and contributions as recalled by experts. Specialists from the fields of transport and geography testify to Sir Peter Hall’s enormous impact on urban planning, urban geography, and transport geography, and The IGU...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-01-15
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-10
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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Für einen Zeitraum von über 30 Jahren zeichnet Kathrin Konrad die wesentlichen Trends in der Alltagsmobilität von Männern und Frauen nach, ordnet diese Trends in den Wandel von Normen und Geschlechterverhältnis ein und schließt durch ihre ganzheitliche Betrachtungsweise...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-11-23
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-27
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GeoJournal Library
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In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Raumforschung ist die Überlegung selbstverständlich geworden, dass Räume vor dem Hintergrund menschlicher Bedeutungszuschreibungen gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit werden und als ‚soziale Konstruktionen’ verstanden werden müssen. Eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-20
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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Michael Bär untersucht Strukturen von Containerseehäfen im Ostseeraum, denn Containerterminals sind wichtige Schnittstellen bei der räumlichen Ausdehnung weltweit organisierter Transportlogistikabläufe. Der Autor nimmt eine Analyse zur logistischen Integration von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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Vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Wissensressourcen für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung zeigt Marie-Theres Moritz die Wirkungen des Titelgewinns Stadt der Wissenschaft 2011 auf die Weiterentwicklung der Wissenschaftsstadt Mainz auf. Ausgangspunkt der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-07-22
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