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Tropical Rain Forest: A Wider Perspective
ISBN: 9780412815201 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint- ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The wide range of issues covered by the authors in this volume reflects the breadth of the interna- tional debate, from national policies and activist campaigning, through eco- nomic and social objectives, to the sustainable management of forest and soil...
The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at th...
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586,33 zł |
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The Himalayan Dilemma : Reconciling Development and Conservation
ISBN: 9780415011570 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This account considers the human and physical geography of the Himalayan region, and the extent of the problems facing it. Additionally, in exploring the historical perspective, it presents a study of the area's complex dynamics.
This account considers the human and physical geography of the Himalayan region, and the extent of the problems facing it. Additionally, in exploring ...
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970,67 zł |
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The Diversion of Land : Conservation in a Period of Farming Contraction
ISBN: 9780415036276 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors assess the challenge facing European agricultural policy makers and those involved in the industry, arguing for the preparation of an environmental agenda based on land organisation and diversion.
The authors assess the challenge facing European agricultural policy makers and those involved in the industry, arguing for the preparation of an envi...
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760,80 zł |
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Countryside Planning: The First Half Century
ISBN: 9780415054898 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban expansion the countryside has become a major issue, its future development uncertain. This book addresses these concerns and provides an in-depth study of the rural debate. Beginning with the key concepts and issues, the author sets out the context in which planning operates and how society has constructed its own images of the countryside. Using three theoretical perspectives the book decsribes the evolution of the current planning system and...
Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban...
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655,86 zł |
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Countryside Planning : The First Half Century
ISBN: 9780415054904 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban expansion the countryside has become a major issue, its future development uncertain. This book addresses these concerns and provides an in-depth study of the rural debate. Beginning with the key concepts and issues, the author sets out the context in which planning operates and how society has constructed its own images of the countryside. Using three theoretical perspectives the book decsribes the evolution of the current planning system and...
Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban...
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188,83 zł |
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Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415078849 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides a contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. Adopted in many countries, with different degrees of enthusiasm, since its inception in the early 1970's, EIA is established as a major procedure for assessing the environmental implications of legislation, the implementation of policy and plans and the initiation of development projects. EIA is...
This treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides a contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed a...
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288,53 zł |
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Land and the City: Patterns and Processes of Urban Change
ISBN: 9780415087827 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a broad analysis of land use patterns and processes in urban areas. Land has the greatest significance for the spatial patterning and functioning of modern urban settlements and societies - providing the basic morphological elements of the city, it is a source of social and economic power, is intimately bound up with environmental issues and lies at the heart of planning.
Presents a broad analysis of land use patterns and processes in urban areas. Land has the greatest significance for the spatial patterning and functio...
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283,28 zł |
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The Political Culture of Planning: American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415088121 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and amorphous field. This material is designed to meet the needs of students who require a succinct account of the American system of land use planning. These readers can ignore the notes. For those who are embarking upon a much wider and deeper study of land use planning in the US the notes are crucial: they provide the guideposts to an immensely rich literature. The first four parts of the text present the main...
The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provid...
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970,67 zł |
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Drylands: Environmental Management and Development
ISBN: 9780415096638 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drylands, which cover over half the world's area, have witnessed rapid development, exploitation and change with the discovery of mineral reserves, urbanization and population growth. Environmental management is critical to the conservation and sustainable use of resources.
This comprehensive text offers a systematic study of the physical nature of drylands and the history of human response to and uses of these harsh landscapes. Detailed case studies, including urban as well as pastoral drylands from California to Soviet Central Asia, the Middle East, the Sahara and Australia, contrast... Drylands, which cover over half the world's area, have witnessed rapid development, exploitation and change with the discovery of mineral reserves, ur...
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351,49 zł |
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Environmental Change in South-East Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415129336 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests.
Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference... Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of pe...
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288,53 zł |
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Politics of Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415138734 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme. It dominated the Rio Earth Summit and its promotion has been much in evidence in the subseque
The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action...
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708,33 zł |
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Marine Tourism: Development, Impacts and Management
ISBN: 9780415139380 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marine Tourism examines both successful and unsuccessful tourism in coastal and marine environments. The author provides an overview of the history, development and growth of marine tourism and describes the characteristics of 'marine tourists' and the 'vendors' of these tourist activities. The book includes case studies of specific types of tourism including:
* the cruise ship industry, * whale and dolphin watching, * yachting - the America's Cup, * personal water crafts and other water sports * and maritime museums and festivals. in locations including Brighton, UK,... Marine Tourism examines both successful and unsuccessful tourism in coastal and marine environments. The author provides an overview of the h...
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199,33 zł |
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Instructor's Manual to Chris Park's The Environment
ISBN: 9780415166638 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The very survival of the planet is at risk: human misuse of natural resources and disturbance of natural environmental systems is pushing the Earth to the limits of its capacity. This text is a comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and environment interact. Focussing particularly on the environmental impacts of human activities, the book explains the ways in which an understanding of basic physical principles can help us to use the environment and its resources. Three...
The very survival of the planet is at risk: human misuse of natural resources and disturbance of natural environmental systems is pushing the Earth to...
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577,15 zł |
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Local Economic Development and the Environment
ISBN: 9780415168250 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concerns about the impact of economic development upon the global environment have increased in recent years. Sustainable development has been proposed as a means of reconciling the pressures between the two, allowing the integration of economic, environmental and social concerns. While policy makers at international, national and local levels have rapidly adopted sustainable development as a key aim, there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what it means in practice.
Concerns about the impact of economic development upon the global environment have increased in recent years. Sustainable development has been propose...
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708,33 zł |
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Using Statistics to Understand the Environment
ISBN: 9780415198875 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using Statistics to Understand the Environment covers all the basic tests required for environmental practicals and projects and points the way to the more advanced techniques that may be needed in more complex research designs. Following an introduction to project design, the book covers methods to describe data, to examine differences between samples, and to identify relationships and associations between variables.
Featuring: worked examples covering a wide range of environmental topics, drawings and icons, chapter summaries, a glossary of statistical terms and a further... Using Statistics to Understand the Environment covers all the basic tests required for environmental practicals and projects and points the w...
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1101,84 zł |
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Shadows of Power: An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning
ISBN: 9780415256308 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy decisions. Who really takes the decisions? How are they arrived at and why were such processes used? What relations of power may be revealed between the various participants?
Using stories from planning practices, this book shows that local planning decisions, particularly those which involve consideration of issues of 'public space' cannot be understood separately from the socially constructed, subjective... Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explore the importan...
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760,80 zł |
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Shadows of Power : An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning
ISBN: 9780415256315 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines public policy, in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explores the important who, how and why issues of policy decisions. Who really takes the decisions? How are they arrived at and why were such processes used? What relations of power may be revealed between the various participants? Using stories from real planning practice, this book shows that local planning decisions, particularly those which involve consideration of issues of public space cannot be understood separately from the socially constructed, subjective territorial...
This text examines public policy, in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explores the important who, how and why...
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325,25 zł |
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Non-Ferrous Metal Ores: Deposits, Minerals and Plants
ISBN: 9780415269643 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents information on mineral resources of non-ferrous metals, with a particular emphasis on practices in the former USSR. The author reviews the geographical distribution, geology, mining and ore processing plants of the former Soviet Union. Non-ferrous metal ores are classified in the text, and mineral processing technologies are described. Those technologies include gravitation, flotation, magnetic separation, leaching and other types. Non-Ferrous Metal Ores reviews the developments in Russia's mineral processing technology. A range of scientists and industry professionals...
This volume presents information on mineral resources of non-ferrous metals, with a particular emphasis on practices in the former USSR. The author re...
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1206,78 zł |
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Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use, Housing, and Mass Immigration in Israel
ISBN: 9780415273831 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster) crisis situations in a democratic, advanced-economy country. This book recounts the saga of how policymakers and planners at both the national and local levels responded to the formidable demand for housing and massive urban growth. Planners forged new housing and land-use policies, and applied a streamlined (but controversial) planning law. The outputs were impressive. The outcomes and impacts changed the landscape and human-scape of Israel,...
The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster) crisi...
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760,80 zł |
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Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use, Housing, and Mass Immigration in Israel
ISBN: 9780415273848 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster) crisis situations in a democratic, advanced-economy country. This book recounts the saga of how policymakers and planners at both the national and local levels responded to the formidable demand for housing and massive urban growth. Planners forged new housing and land-use policies, and applied a streamlined (but controversial) planning law. The outputs were impressive. The outcomes and impacts changed the landscape and human-scape of Israel,...
The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster) crisi...
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288,53 zł |
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