Geography Books

Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science,...

Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas' remodelled the cities, while the creation of homelands', mini-states and the pass laws' controlling population migration constrained...

Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life...

Pacific Asia - from Burma to Papua New Guinea to Japan - is the most dynamic and productive region in the developing world, the result of an economic explosion fuelled by industrial activity. This is where the Green Revolution began, where more women are...

Climate may be defined as the synthesis of long-term atmospheric conditions characteristic of a particular place. Consequently, the study of climate relies on sustained records of daily values. However, both location and equipment are variables and...

This examines the relationship between technological growth and outward direct investment from firms in Asia and Latin America which has become increasingly siginificant as these countries develop.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to housing policy and finance in Britain. It describes changes in the condition and tenure of housing in the post-war period, and contrasts the massive investment in house building and improvement with...

This book is an introduction to a range of methods and techniques used in the scientific study of the rocks, soils, atmosphere, waters and living organisms of the Earth, and of the relationships of these environmental factors...

The first number of our earlier series, A Programme for Growth, carried a notice of forthcoming papers. Five were announced but eventually only four were published. The fifth, which was intended to deal with consumption...

Current studies of recent crustal movement are presented using space and terrestrial geodetic methods. Results of the studies, as well as methodological questions related to monitoring, are discussed. Papers are grouped within...

This book describes an integrated approach to using remotely sensed data in conjunction with geographic information systems for landscape analysis. Remotely sensed data are compressed into an analytical image-map that is...

पारिस्थितिकी का परिचय: परिभाषा, प्रमुख अवधारणाएं और शाखाएंपृथ्वी एक अविश्वसनीय रूप से जटिल और गतिशील प्रणाली है, जहां निर्जीव वातावरण (जैसे हवा, पानी, चट्टानें) और जीवित जीव अविभाज्य रूप से जुड़े हुए हैं। इस जटिल संबंध का अध्ययन पारिस्थितिकी नामक विज्ञान...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format...

Bringing together twenty-five years of research, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, but includes a wealth of comparative material from others.

The aim of this study was to show, how agents of Creative Industries use specific milieus in a context of Creative City to transform Creativity into Cultural Goods and Services. Based on the broad empirical data pool, this investigation contributes to...

Creating land-cover and land-use maps for urban areas has always been challenging due to the complexity of an urban landscape. The greater availability of remotely sensed high-resolution imagery and recent advances in object-oriented analysis allow for...

Disasters are of major global concern and reducing disaster risk is an urgent priority for the humanitarian/development community world­wide. Nearly every country in the world is affected by natural hazards but natural disasters cause most damage and...

This study examines the public spaces created by the built environment of the city and asks: How is it that the apparently benign and benevolent activity of designing public space can in fact reinforce values that effectively marginalise and exclude...

Some of the most highly recognized Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of our time were the entrepreneurial creators of their firms. These CEOs distinguished themselves not only by starting their own firms, but also by successfully managing them for long...

Nowadays due to the fierce global competition, cross-border mergers are a well-known strategic option for companies to become global players. There­fore internationally merging companies have to deal with the issue of cultural differences as both...

Diese Reise führt von Winhoek in den äußersten Süden bis zum Fishriver-Canyon und geht dann über Lüderitz, die Namib-Wüste zum Sossusvlei und von da aus nach Swakopmund und WalvisBay.

In diesem Manuskript sollen einige theoretische Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge der Geoinformatik zusammengestellt werden. Auch die wichtigsten Formeln aus Mathematik, Niederer Geodäsie, Höherer Geodäsie und Kartographie sollen kurz vorgestellt werden...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Regionalentwicklung in Europa, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Technische Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, anhand eines Beispieldorfes aufzuzeigen, welche...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 1,0, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Fakultät für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung), Veranstaltung: Der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jeder Mensch wächst - behütet von seinen Eltern, seiner Familie - zu einer bestimmten Zeit an einem bestimmten Ort auf. Von...

Rural areas in most of the developing world have for a long time not benefited from the development programmes initiated by their governments. Using field data, the author comparatively analyses the prospects of decentralised development initiatives...

The climate is changing as a result of GHGs emission mainly from human activities. Climate changes climate will adversely impact various ecosystems and economic activities. Semi-arid environments will be impacted more than other environments as extreme...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geowissenschaften / Geographie, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Indien - Land der Gegensätze und Paradebeispiel für Armut, Polarisierung, Ungleichheit und Kinderarbeit. So erheben...

Das Staatenlexikon vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse zur Staatenwelt des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens. In alphabetisch geordnetem Aufbau - von Afghanistan, Irak und Iran über Israel, Saudi-Arabien, Syrien und die Türkei bis Marokko und Tunesien - werden...

The book addresses scientists and technical experts who have already some background knowledge in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and who want to know more about standardisation in GIS, in particular, the role of the...

This book discusses what it means for cities to work toward and achieve resilience in the face of climate change. The content takes an urban planning perspective with a water-related focus, exploring the continued global and local efforts in improving...

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus. This book critically explores how to improve...

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction,...