Geography Books

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung:Mit über 140 innerstädtischen Umzügen je 1000 Einwohner gehörte Dresden im Jahre 1998 zu den Großstädten mit der höchsten Wohnmobilität in Deutschland, obwohl hier zu DDR-Zeiten und noch zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre eine...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung:Die Eisenbahn entwickelte sich im 19. Jahrhundert zum bedeutendsten Landverkehrsträger mit überragender gesellschaftspolitischer Bedeutung. An der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert war der ehemals starke Einfluss privater...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung:Von vielen Unternehmen wird der Schutz der natürlichen Umwelt nicht mehr als Bedrohung, sondern als Herausforderung angesehen. Sie nehmen den Umweltschutz als Ziel in ihre Unternehmenspolitik auf. Zur Integration des...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:"Niemand darf wegen seiner Behinderung benachteiligt werden." (GG, Art. 3 Abs. 3 Satz 2)Dieses Gleichstellungsgesetz, das erst im September 1994 im Grundgesetz verankert wurde, ist bislang noch keine Garantie dafür, daß...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung:Der innerstädtische Einzelhandel in den neuen Bundesländern hat zur Zeit große Probleme. Hervorzuheben ist die Konkurrenz durch großflächige Einzelhandelseinrichtungen in nicht-integrierten Lagen. Dadurch droht eine...

Kaapverdië: een Afrikaans land met een Caribische twist. Ada en Jan kozen voor het eiland Sal en werden aangenaam verrast. Met een huurauto werd dit eiland tot in de verste uithoeken verkend. Van de sfeervolle stad Santa Maria waar de lekkerste...

De reis begon in Windhoek, de moderne hoofdstad van dit land. Natuurlijk werd Etosha bezocht en dronk de auteur menig cappuccino in Opuwo, de hoofdstad van Kaokaland. De stad waar de kleurrijke Himba, de Zemba en de Herero-mensen de straten bevolken...

Unterrichtsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geographie, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Didaktik Geografie), Veranstaltung: Didaktik Geografie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In diesem Arbeitsblatt setzen sich die SuS...

Unterrichtsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geographie, Note: 1,3, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Unterrichtsstunde thematisiert die ökologischen Herausforderungen der Mobilitätswende sowie...

This conference proceedings gathers work and research presented at the International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022 (IASSC2022) held on July 3, 2022, in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of...

The aim of this book is to publish original contributions or review articles that evaluate the integration of GIS and remote sensing in agricultural practice by improving soil quality and environmental health. The complexity of spatial data and modeling...

L'ouvrage regroupe 17 chapitres présentant des situations d'interstices et de communs à différentes échelles, lieux et époques. Ils sont regroupés en trois parties.

Water scarcity is a known issue for billions of people around the world and the latest research has predicted that this crisis will only get worse.  Through my own research, I understand that water has memory, water is alive, it could be happy and...

For Tom Springer, the usual four seasons can't begin to describe the mini-solstices of a Midwestern year: "Does summer really begin on June 21? No, the first ripe Michigan strawberries say summer to me ... just as a sumac that flames crimson in an August...

FRANK KEIM is an educator, nature writer and environmental activist. He worked for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia, an anthropologist in Ecuador for four years, and as a secondary school teacher of Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska's Lower...

"The world is on the move; seas rise, villages are emptied, coastlines are redrawn, deserts spread to the suburbs, snowfall increases and lost battlefields re-emerge. Only soap operas give any impression of permanence. Traditional fortresses like home,...

"Improved Mapping of Vegetation and Minerals with Hybrid Spectral Matching" by Padma S. is an essential resource for researchers and professionals in the field of remote sensing and geology.Through detailed research and analysis, Padma S. highlights the...

The Privatization of Water: Commodifying a Basic Right provides a comprehensive analysis of the global water crisis, exploring the debates around water privatization and its social, economic, and environmental consequences.It examines the role of...

A lot of hard work has been put into making important Notes and good efforts have been made, and an attempt has been made to make flawless Notes , yet if there is any error in error, then if you find it, inform us, correct it yourself. Be done. In this...

Shallenberger State Nature Preserve illustrates the past natural history of Ohio running headlong into the present. Located in south-central Ohio, right outside of Lancaster, the preserve lies on the edge where ice age glaciers ground into the Blackhand...

This book is addressed to students and professionals, and it is aimed to cover as much as possible the broader region of topographic mapping as it has evolved into a modern field called geospatial information science and technology. More emphasis is...

With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the...

In this collection, first published in 1951, the central theme is that everything has a history, and that we cannot fully understand anything without some knowledge of its history. Professor Haldane writes mainly on geology, astronomy and zoology, but...

Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field,...

Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most...

This book, which was first published in 1984, surveys the major problems and debates connected with land use in the modern developed world. The Land Problem in the Developed Economy analyses land policy in a number of different countries, including the...

This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia. It captures diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of...

This thought-provoking volume seeks to answer some of the ultimate economic questions in terms of a theory that emerged with Adam Smith and is now come to full fruition; the principle of circular and cumulative causation (CCC) This full-fledged...

This volume investigates small and large networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000-323 BC). It explores the world of technologies, crafts, and archaeological...

This title was first published in 2003. This volume comprises of the best practices learned and promoted by the Family Planning Logistics Management (FPLM) project, set up in 1986.

This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development. As well as providing an international comparative perspective on these issues, the contributions to the book also...

This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners. Drawing upon detailed case studies, it demonstrates the diverse roles of design in...

The complete study and revision guide for the International Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW).

China has progressed dramatically since 1978 when the country started its economic reforms and opened up to the world economy. It took only three decades for China to develop from a closed, centrally planned economy with little sea-borne trade into the...

Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water...

This book examines the multiple ways in which rural regions in Europe are being restructured through globalization and the regional development responses that they have adopted. Drawing on examples and findings from a major European research project,...

This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorize research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research, and the increasing political relevance of animals in...

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow's East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave. This is reflected across the western world, and causes severe blows...

This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures.Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a...

Islands and their environs - aerial, terrestrial, aquatic - may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings...

Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function...

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and...

It is often overlooked that the initiatives of private individuals and bodies have always been a major feature of urban governance in English and American cities, before, during and after the heyday of 20th-century Welfare States. This book highlights...

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local food systems-among policy makers, planners, and public health professionals, as well as environmentalists, community developers, academics, farmers, and ordinary citizens. While most local...

Providing a broad overview of the economics of land-use change, this book is a key contribution to contemporary land-use studies, highlighting the main methodological and public policy issues that will be central to future research.