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The Dynamics of Cities: Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos
ISBN: 9780415077217 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The economy and geography of human population concentrations have been characterized throughout history by numerous dualisms and spatial disparities. Extreme poverty and equally extreme wealth coexist side by side. Are they connected or are they purely random? The Dynamics of Cities addresses these questions, arguing that both the interaction of space and time and the comparative advantage of location are interlocked into a simple but rich code of evolution. Drawing on recorded evidence, available on a global scale and spanning the past quarter century, Dimitrios Dendrinos argues that the...
The economy and geography of human population concentrations have been characterized throughout history by numerous dualisms and spatial disparities. ...
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Women's Voices from the Rainforest
ISBN: 9780415105316 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.
International development policy and its top-down culture must take much of the blame for environmental and social destruction of the rainforest. Presenting the contrasting results of different methodologies, a comprehensive literature review, and the voices of the rainforest women themselves, told in life histories, the authors... Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central ...
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The Ethics of Tourism Development
ISBN: 9780415266857 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the value...
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Unfare Solutions: Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport
ISBN: 9780415327121 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport system, especially in densely populated areas. At the same time however, governments are under increasing pressure to cut taxation. As a result there is a growing gap between increasing policy need for public transport and government resources to fund that need. This timely book explores one...
Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a susta...
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De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out
ISBN: 9780415945370 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A novel theoretical account of globalization, De-Coca-Colonization argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are locked out of power structures create "globalities" of their own.
A novel theoretical account of globalization, De-Coca-Colonization argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at wo...
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Handbook of Urban Studies
ISBN: 9780803976955 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers this provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies.
A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers this provides...
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Events and Festivals : Current Trends and Issues
ISBN: 9780415449182 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. They are dynamos of cultural development, of sport knowledge and excellence and sophisticated consumption. This book looks at different event and festival cases, covering the US, the UK and Australia, and presents managerial implications and responses.
Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. They are dynamos of cultural development, of sport knowledge and excel...
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After Sustainable Cities?
ISBN: 9780415659864 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs. A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the ... |
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Sports and City Marketing in European Cities
ISBN: 9780754619314 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our increasingly global and commercial world, where once sport would only have been seen by a few thousand on the terraces it is now watched by many millions via satellite. This mass global audience is invited not only to watch the sporting event, but also to a visita the city where it takes place. Such events may help promote the host city as a tourist destination and business location. City governors are becoming increasingly aware of the possibilities of using sport as an instrument of reaching objectives of urban management. This engaging book investigates the a state of the arta of...
In our increasingly global and commercial world, where once sport would only have been seen by a few thousand on the terraces it is now watched by man...
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Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation
ISBN: 9780415477505 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that... The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context,... |
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Re-Thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology
ISBN: 9780754618423 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored. This groundbreaking examination is carried out through a discussion of the following general question: to what extent can the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems be considered as vectors of social...
All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly di...
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Landscape Management and Maintenance: A Guide to Its Costing and Organization
ISBN: 9780566090189 / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing pressure to adopt a more disciplined analytical approach to their work. Landscape Management and Maintenance will help you to set objectives for the use of your land, your manpower and your resources. The authors draw on their wide experience of different types of landscape management to give you clear examples of the methods and alternatives. At each stage they emphasise how to make cost effective choices, and achieve the best value for money.
With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing p...
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Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape
ISBN: 9780754635550 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th. Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to changes in the physical form and institutional infrastructure of the city of London during the 1990s when the city was a prime terrorist target. The book analyses how the various formal and informal...
The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent...
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A Planner's Encounter with Complexity
ISBN: 9781409402657 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This...
Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of compl...
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Community Indicators Measuring Systems
ISBN: 9780754640059 / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community indicators measuring systems represent a mechanism to improve monitoring and evaluation in planning, incorporating citizen involvement and participation. They reflect the interplay between social, environmental and economic factors affecting a region's or community's well-being, and, as such, can be extremely valuable to planners and developers. Yet, little research has been conducted on their efficacy. This book provides a comprehensive review of how community development indicators evolved and examines their interplay with planning and development. It questions how we adequately...
Community indicators measuring systems represent a mechanism to improve monitoring and evaluation in planning, incorporating citizen involvement and p...
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Political Ecology and the Role of Water: Environment, Society and Economy in Northern Yemen
ISBN: 9780754609087 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insufficient attention has been paid to how traditional political relations and local perceptions affect natural resource capture and resource allocation. This is especially evident with respect to groups and communities at the political and geographical peripheries of state influence and control for whom self-identity is constructed around notions of...
How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems a...
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Making the Digital City: The Early Shaping of Urban Internet Space
ISBN: 9780754643647 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities. Economic regeneration and place promotion strategies have exploited these new technologies; city management has experimented with electronically distributed services, and participation in public life and democratic decision-making processes can be made more flexible by the use of ICTs. All of these technological initiatives have often been presented and accessed via an urban front-end information site known as...
Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and ma...
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Regionalism Contested: Institution, Society and Governance
ISBN: 9780754643616 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard to the feasibility of marginal regions achieving self-sustained growth and states have maintained their role as regulators of economic and social activities. Thus, the notion of the region and its significance is currently much debated and contested. Illustrated with a wide range of European case studies, this volume brings together the main strands of these contestations, as economic, political and social actors attempt to institutionalise...
As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted. A certain skepticism has developed with regard...
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Environmental Leaders and Laggards in Europe: Why There Is (Not) a 'Southern Problem'
ISBN: 9780754616870 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No other European laws are so frequently violated as environmental directives. This informative and illuminating volume explains why member states have repeatedly failed to comply with European Environmental Law. It challenges the assumption that non-compliance is merely a southern problem. By critically comparing and analyzing Spain and Germany, the volume demonstrates that both northern leaders and southern laggards face compliance problems if a European policy is not compatible with domestic regulatory structures. The North-South divide is therefore much more complex than...
No other European laws are so frequently violated as environmental directives. This informative and illuminating volume explains why member states hav...
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Evolving Cities: Geocomputation in Territorial Planning
ISBN: 9780754641940 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geocomputation has come of age. The whirlwind of change experienced in Geographical Information Science (GIS) - developments in IT, and new data gathering and earth observing technologies - has taken GIS beyond mere data and towards its analysis, modeling, and use in problem solving. Geocomputation is now at the dynamic edge of this revolution. Bringing together the leading researchers in geocomputation, this volume provides an up-to-date overview of the development of new artificial intelligence principles and technologies (NN, CA, Multi-agent Systems and Evolutionary Algorithms) used for...
Geocomputation has come of age. The whirlwind of change experienced in Geographical Information Science (GIS) - developments in IT, and new data gathe...
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