Geography, Environment, Earth Sciences & Planning Books

Die Lehre von den Urbarmachungen und Grundverbesserungen ist ein Buch von Carl Sprengel, das im Jahr 1838 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk beschreibt der Autor die verschiedenen Methoden und Techniken, die zur Kultivierung und Verbesserung von...

Histoire des plantes d'Europe et �����trang�����res les plus communes, les plus utiles et les plus curieuses, ou, �����l�����ments de botanique pratique V2 (1806) est un livre �����crit par Jean Emmanuel Gilibert. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de botanique qui...

Histoire Naturelle De La Croyance, Partie 1: L�������Animal (1887) par Van Ende est un livre qui explore la relation entre l'homme et les animaux dans diff�����rentes cultures ������ travers l'histoire. L'auteur examine les croyances et les pratiques...

Histoire et Description Naturelle de la Commune de Meudon est un livre �����crit par Louis Eug�����ne Robert et publi����� en 1843. Il s'agit d'une description d�����taill�����e de la petite ville de Meudon, situ�����e dans le d�����partement des...

Das Buch ""Das Erdbeben von Agram am 9. November 1880"" (1883) von Franz Wahner beschreibt das verheerende Erdbeben, das am 9. November 1880 die Stadt Zagreb (damals Agram genannt) in Kroatien ersch�����tterte. Der Autor beschreibt die Auswirkungen des...

Instructions Pratiques Sur Le Drainage est un livre �����crit par Herv����� Mangon en 1863. Ce livre est un guide pratique sur le drainage, qui est une technique agricole visant ������ am�����liorer le drainage des sols pour augmenter leur...

De La Phrenologie Et Des Etudes Vraies Sur Le Cerveau est un livre �����crit en 1863 par Pierre Flourens. Ce livre explore les th�����ories de la phr�����nologie, qui �����tait une pseudoscience populaire au 19�����me si�����cle qui pr�����tendait que la...

Essai sur les moyens de conduire, d'�����lever et de distribuer les eaux est un livre �����crit en 1829 par Raymond Genieys. Ce livre traite des diff�����rents moyens permettant de g�����rer l'eau, notamment en ce qui concerne son transport, son...

""Beitr�����ge zur Physikalischen Geographie von Montenegro: Mit besonderer Ber�����cksichtigung des Karstes"" ist ein Buch von Kurt Hassert, das im Jahr 1895 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der physischen Geographie von...

The number of questions related to climate, pollution, mass extinction, threats from technology, are on a rise. How to understand our place within the environment, how to create a link between our economy and the environment, how to evaluate natural...

This book offers an overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh. For researchers, students, and academics of economics, politics, sustainable development and economic growth...

This interdisciplinary book analyses the regional economic integration and its institutionalisation that has been pursued in East Asia since the late 1990s and its far-reaching impact for the entire region and beyond.

This book presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship.

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research and principles of understanding and the...

This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.

This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region.

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol. 1 collects the best reports presented at the Forum-Contest, and is of interest to academics and professionals involved in the extraction and processing of natural resources.

Presents the contribution to the Russian-German raw materials forum. Paying attention to complex processes in the mining industry, Scientific and practical studies of raw material issues will be of interest to academics and professional involved or...

This book explores flood disasters, their impact in the world and the Indian context, assessing vulnerability and risks involved, and systematic use of GIS-enabled platforms to map mitigation measures sustainably, with special reference to the...

This book examines Russia's multidimensional foreign energy policy and the emerging and on-going conflicts with energy-consuming and transit countries.

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key and issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and...

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an...

This handbook identifies the recent challenges in accounting research and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by exploring the evolutionary pathways and future direction of sustainability reporting. It explores the role of businesses as contributors...

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) have become an array of new building envelope solutions in products, materials, and colors for virtually any surface.Featuring annotated reference drawings and case studies,this guidebook prepares building...

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalization, transitioning economic patterns, National Urban policies in changing their urban landscape.

This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various post-colonial contexts. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable...

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.

This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms. It was originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.

This groundbreaking and transformative textbook introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise, easy-to-read format. Supported by additional resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments, this book will be essential...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security.

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its application in business for sustainable development.

This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947).

This book outlines the characteristics and implications of a potential geography of uncertainty. In doing so, it analyses this concept in reference to both the origins of uncertainty in Early Modern Age as well as the current geopolitical situation.

This book introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia's eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra's highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu, which descends from...

Many new challenges including competitiveness are emerging for sustainable business during this era of disruption. This book analyses these challenges to sustainable development and growth and addresses the impact of corporate social responsibility on...

This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development, as...

Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis and it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation to map out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. Valuable reading for scholars and students in the fields of...

Emphasizing model choice and model averaging, this book presents Bayesian methods for analyzing complex ecological data. Providing a basic introduction to Bayesian methods, the book includes detailed descriptions of methods that deal with covariate data...

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of 'second generation' ANT scholars from around the world, it...

This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year...

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene. This book will be particularly useful to academics,...

This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

This volume brings together academics working at differing intersections of environmental education and new materialisms, highlighting tensions, knots, and lines of flight across and for research, practice, and theory. This book was originally published...

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of...

This book explores the myriad issues that play out in the upstream petroleum industry of Ghana from a legal perspective.