Geography, Environment, Earth Sciences & Planning Books

Ce livre, écrit par Charles Brongniart, Louis Launay et Stanislas Meunier, explore le terrain houiller de Commentry. Les auteurs examinent la géologie de la région, les techniques d'extraction du charbon et les facteurs économiques et sociaux qui ont...

This classic work of English literature celebrates the beauty and importance of the woodlands, providing a lyrical tribute to these unique ecosystems. Cobbett explores the history, culture, and biodiversity of the woodlands through the lens of his own...

This book contains a collection of scientific articles on the Upper Cretaceous period in North America. The articles cover topics such as stratigraphy, paleontology, and sedimentology. The authors are experts in the field and provide valuable insights...

This hands-on guide is the perfect resource for anyone looking to learn more about the fascinating world of geology. With clear explanations and practical exercises, it covers all the major topics of the field, from mineralogy and stratigraphy to...

This book serves as a guide for sailors navigating cyclonic storms in the Bay of Bengal. It includes information on the formation, tracks, and dynamics of these storms, as well as tips for sailors on how to stay safe during cyclones. This is a valuable...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Linda Pope is a practical environmentalist with a sense of urgency. Her research has led her to understand that solutions are already abundant. What’s needed are doers who can step outside their comfort zones and simply “be the change.”...

In 1962, John F. Kennedy said, "Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel Prizes -- one for science and one for peace." Sixty-four years later neither prize has been awarded. In CLOUDS ABOVE the year is 2035, the same...

Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the...

The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position...

Despite scientific evidence that business-as-usual is unsustainable, there is a huge and widespread inertia to 'greening' the planet. Warming to Ecocide considers climate change from a thermodynamic perspective and asks whether...

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed...

Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the...

Long before Rachel Carson's fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a reappraisal of...

Superfund liability). This is an issue that is currently having an dramatic impact on the industry. The impact is being felt in transactions involving the potential sale of properties, insuring operations, development of new...

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the...

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the...

This volume reviews the evolution of ten years' learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten...

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, provides an international liability regime for biodiversity damage caused by living modified...

To increasing numbers of people, sustainability is the key challenge of the twenty-first century. In the many fields where it is a goal, persistent problems obstruct the efforts of those trying to make a difference. The task of this book is to provide an...

The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English,...

For the first time at the beginning of the twenty-first century, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is set to continue. Consequently one of the most pressing issues of our time is how to square the social and economic...

In all developed countries, a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. This book explores the forms of this contemporary economic and social disadvantage and in particular, its social and spatial causes.

Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban...

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization. Migration, global economic restructuring, and climate change are rapidly transforming rural places across the globe...

The latest 4th edition of the international standard on the principles of reliability for load bearing structures (ISO2394:2015) includes a new Annex D dedicated to the reliability of geotechnical structures. The emphasis in Annex D is to identify and...

This book explores an exciting range of creative engagements with ecologies of place, using geopoetics, deep mapping and slow residency to propose broadly based collaborations in a form of 'disciplinary agnosticism'.Providing a radical alternative to...

Written in an accessible and rigorous manner, Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the China's Greater Bay Area (GBA) conditions to explain the region's rise, innovativeness, and resilience.

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.

This book gives readers detailed explanations of the techniques used to map and monitor the built and natural environment and how that data, collected from a wide range of scales and cost options, is translated into an image or visual experience. It is...

Combining critical reflections from scholars around the globe as well as experiential records from some of the world's most tenacious explorers, this book interrogates the concept of the 'frontier' as a realm of transformation, exploration and adventure...

This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically...

This book analyses the implementation and challenges of using Geographical Indications in Norway.

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels. It emphasises water flows (basic principles and characterisation), fluvial sediment, processes of erosion and sediment transport, bedforms that result from flow-bed...

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of...