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Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape
ISBN: 9781138248342 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and architects. The cultural landscape is often viewed as an emblematic site and thus a key player in the heritage process. This book explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. It provides an overview of new approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States. These case studies demonstrate the significance...
The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and archi...
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Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781138271487 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, internet porn, asylum seekers, dirty bombs and avian flu, we are bombarded with messages about emerging risks. This book takes stock of a range of issues of 'fear' and presents new theoretical arguments and research findings that cover topics as diverse as the war on terror, the immigration crisis, stranger danger, global disease epidemics and sectarian violence. This book charts the association of fear discourses with particular spaces, times,...
'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, ...
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252,56 |
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Names, Ethnicity and Populations: Tracing Identity in Space
ISBN: 9783662514795 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population groups and neighbourhoods.
This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic a...
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509,20 |
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Collaborative Approach to Trade: Enhancing Connectivity in Sea- And Land-Locked Countries
ISBN: 9783319470382 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how spatial interaction and agent-based modelling can be used as the basis for developing new plans and policies. An in-depth analysis of trade routes is presented, which can be used to develop policies for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Landlocked Uganda and the sea-locked South Pacific Islands serve to illustrate the problems of covering sizable distances, accelerating export flows and improving supply chain efficiency. These examples... This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how s... |
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483,04 |
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Climate Change in North America
ISBN: 9783319354590 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book details the climate of North American over the past 65 million years. It explains how global climate models are used to simulate climate and presents the application of these models to reproduce recent climate variations and predict future climate.
This book details the climate of North American over the past 65 million years. It explains how global climate models are used to simulate climate and...
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402,53 |
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Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard
ISBN: 9783319330969 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. This statement was just as relevant after the Japanese tsunami of 2011 and will be as relevant when the next large tsunami event happens, sooner rather than later.
It is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. This statement was just as relevant after the Japanese tsunami of 2011 ...
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Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics
ISBN: 9781138252608 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food politics' in these spaces of transgression now and in the near future and addresses questions such as: What constitutes 'alternative' food politics specifically and food politics more generally when organic and other 'quality' foods have become mainstreamed? What has been the contribution so far...
Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgres...
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252,56 |
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Local Heritage, Global Context: Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place
ISBN: 9781138248335 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location. As heritage management policy and practices increasingly attempt to draw on the views and expressions of interest amongst local communities, it is important to have a better grasp of what people mean by this concept, and to assess its uses and implications. Here, a range of practitioners from NGO, agency, cultural heritage and archaeological backgrounds review the meanings of 'sense of place', and where it is useful in the context of heritage management practice. This volume breaks...
'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location. As heritage management policy and pract...
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271,99 |
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Managing Urban Futures: Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781138246164 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global sustainability. It is dominated by three factors: population growth, rural-urban migration and subsequent urban expansion. Perhaps nowhere are these factors more dominant than in developing countries. This volume brings together leading experts including Alan Gilbert, John Friedmann, Saskia Sassen and Janice Perlman to explore the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. While all have to contend with key issues such as social segregation, poverty, and loss of governability, the ongoing forces of...
Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global sustainability. It is dominated by three factors: population growth, rural-urban mi...
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Tropical Wetland Management: The South-American Pantanal and the International Experience
ISBN: 9781138252615 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent scientific development and politico-institutional experiences related to the conservation of the South-American Pantanal are explored in this book in relation to what is happening in other tropical wetland areas of international importance such as the Everglades in North America and the Okavango in Africa, as well as considering the European experience. An interdisciplinary group of authors examines the need to establish a constructive dialogue between scientists, policy-makers and local stakeholders and outline a future research agenda, including consideration of the impacts of...
Recent scientific development and politico-institutional experiences related to the conservation of the South-American Pantanal are explored in this b...
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252,56 |
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Keeping It in the Family: International Perspectives on Succession and Retirement on Family Farms
ISBN: 9781138251168 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Typically organised around what might be considered the most basic of social units, for generations the family farm has survived wide-ranging exogenous challenges, frequently preserving the line of succession to the next of kin. Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of...
As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the envi...
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276,84 |
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Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s
ISBN: 9781138273634 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a detailed account of the West German census controversies of the 1980s, this book offers a robust and geographical sense of what effective 'resistance' and 'empowerment' might mean in an age when the intensification of 'surveillance society' appears to render us ever more passive and incapable of controlling our own registration.
Through a detailed account of the West German census controversies of the 1980s, this book offers a robust and geographical sense of what effective 'r...
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The Geopolitics of Domination
ISBN: 9781138813342 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the examples of the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Austria, France and Germany, this book describes the principal geopolitical features of the expansionist state. It then presents a model of the operation of the expansionist process over space and time. It goes on to apply the geopolitical characteristics of the model to the period after 1945 in order to assess the extent to which the Soviet Union might be considered as being an expansionist state, either actually or potentially. This latter question is obviously once more extremely relevant with the current events in Ukraine. Using the examples of the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Austria, France and Germany, this book describes the principal geopolitical features of the expans... |
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223,41 |
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The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)
ISBN: 9781138813717 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, originally published in 1986, shows the importance of geography in international power politics and shows how geopolitical thought influences policy-making and action. It considers the various elements within international power politics such as ideologies, territorial competition and spheres of influences, and shows how geographical considerations are crucial to each element. It considers the effects of distance on global power politics and explores how the geography of international communication and contact and the geography of economic and social patterns change over time... This book, originally published in 1986, shows the importance of geography in international power politics and shows how geopolitical thought influ... |
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194,26 |
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Political Frontiers and Boundaries (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)
ISBN: 9781138814202 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic work is a comprehensive treatment of the world s political frontiers and boundaries, and includes sections on boundaries in the air as well as chapters treating the subject in a regional manner, covering the continets in terms of the evolution of boundaries. "This classic work is a comprehensive treatment of the world s political frontiers and boundaries, and includes sections on boundaries in the air as... |
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Geography of Elections
ISBN: 9781138814271 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Geography of Border Landscapes
ISBN: 9781138815636 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Geography of State Policies
ISBN: 9781138815971 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the reciprocal relationships between geography and the policies of states. The text begins with a theoretical analysis which sets the study in the context of geography and related fields, and an analysis of certain global strategies advocated by geographers and others. The remainer of the book deals with policies of defence, development and administration. This book examines the reciprocal relationships between geography and the policies of states. The text begins with a theoretical analysis which set... |
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Strategy and Partnership in Cities and Regions: Economic Development and Urban Regeneration in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam
ISBN: 9781349417582 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Policy makers in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam are confronted with rapidly changing social and economic environments. Public and private sector organizations in the three cities are increasingly addressing regional issues strategically and joining together in partnerships to promote competitiveness and economic growth. Local communities are linking to regional economies as companies restructure and strategy-makers recognise the benefits of urban regeneration as an important condition for economic prosperity. The book covers the complexities of modern governance under such...
Policy makers in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam are confronted with rapidly changing social and economic environments. Public and private sector...
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201,24 |
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Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History
ISBN: 9781552388549 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada - clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates.
Ice Blink provides opportunities to consider critical issues in other... Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scien...
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179,74 |
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