Qualitative Research in Tourism : Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies
ISBN: 9780415280860 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with chapters written in a reflexive style that demonstrate the ways in which the techniques can be
The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, wi...
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Ecosystems
ISBN: 9780415332781 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In examining both theory and applications, this book, through useful examples, provides a stimulating introduction to ecosystems. It examines the nature, types and characteristics of ecosystems as well as investigating the interactions between various systems and human actions. Using functional ecology as the basis for applying the ecosystem concept in contemporary environmental science and ecology, this second edition of this highly successful volume has been updated to reflect the latest research. It incorporates a strengthened theme in the use of functional ecology in explaining how...In examining both theory and applications, this book, through useful examples, provides a stimulating introduction to ecosystems. It examines the n... |
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Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
ISBN: 9780415771481 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past few decades, the governance of nature has taken its most radical turn. The most influential change in economic and social regulation has seen a dramatic reprise of liberal faith in less regulated markets and minimalist states, underpinned by advocacy for extending exclusive property rights to nearly everything imaginable. This complex turn, with its countless yet uncharted implications for environmental quality and governance, is captured by the contentious concept of neoliberalism. Today, neoliberalism provides the context and direction for how humans affect... Over the past few decades, the governance of nature has taken its most radical turn. The most influential change in economic and social regulati... |
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Remote Sensing and Urban Analysis: Gisdata 9
ISBN: 9780748408603 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide range of methodologies for the production and analysis of urban remote sensing data are outlined in this book. To begin with, a number of techniques are examined for the extraction of information which can be applied to digital, multispectral images of urban areas. These include improvements to conventional per-pixel image classification algorithms, various methods of image fusion, the application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques, the role of mathematical morphology, and geostatistical approaches to the analysis and intepretation of image textural and spatial patterns. The...
A wide range of methodologies for the production and analysis of urban remote sensing data are outlined in this book. To begin with, a number of techn...
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A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
ISBN: 9780849327285 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A close relationship exists between GIS and numerous applications, including cartography, photogrammetry, geodesy, surveying, computer and information science, and statistics, among others. Scientists coined the term "geographic information science (GIScience)" to describe the theory behind these fields. A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science extensively details the issues and fundamental scientific problems that must be solved if the use of GIS in these and other fields is to advance.
Immediately following the founding of the University Consortium for Geographic Information... A close relationship exists between GIS and numerous applications, including cartography, photogrammetry, geodesy, surveying, computer and information...
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Atlas of the World's Deserts
ISBN: 9781579583101 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concentrating on particular aspects of the deserts, their geology, life forms, history and future; this book describes the hostile and extreme environments that cover more than a seventh of the world's surface, home to some of nature's most remarkable adaptations and humanity's most resourceful communities. The chapters are divided by picture essays that feature a detailed view of a particular region, such as California's Death Valley, portraying its landscape, natural life and human residents. Throughout the book, boxes highlight aspects of the story of the deserts, from how sand dunes are...
Concentrating on particular aspects of the deserts, their geology, life forms, history and future; this book describes the hostile and extreme environ...
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Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu
ISBN: 9781841420110 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life. Rejecting simplifying notions of globalization as a macro-economic force, it provides a grounded picture of various ways in which people's biographical trajectories are tied up with the global cultural economy. While recent debates in the social sciences started to investigate the link between globalization and biography in general, this study more specifically stresses the catalytic function of the global city environment. The idea of milieu has always linked people to their...
Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life. Rejecting simplifying notions of global...
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Environmental Change: The Evolving Ecosphere
ISBN: 9780415145206 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the nature, causes, rates and directions of environmental change throughout earth history. Huggett introduces the interdependent parts of the natural environment - cosmic, ecological, geological - and the dynamic nature of the environmental system. Integrating a wealth of examples and illustrations from around the world, the book examines evidence and causes of change in life, climate (air and water), soils, sediments and landforms, and the impacts of human-environment interaction.
Exploring the nature, causes, rates and directions of environmental change throughout earth history. Huggett introduces the interdependent parts of th...
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Retail Change: Contemporary Issues
ISBN: 9781857280593 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The economic, social and environmental implications of recent changes in retailing constitute significant contemporary issues, which are the focus of this timely book. Retail change deals with the internationalization of retailing, the development of shopping centres in the city and at suburban sites, and the growth of leisure shopping. It provides an up-to-date review of the central questions faced by undergraduate students in planning, business studies and geography.
The economic, social and environmental implications of recent changes in retailing constitute significant contemporary issues, which are the focus of ...
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The Fundamentalist City? : Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space
ISBN: 9780415779357 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city.
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundam...
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Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415615334 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title presents an overview of contemporary developments in all the major branches of the discipline. As such it provides a valuable introduction to the subject, a review of the latest state of the art and a pointer to future research directions.
This title presents an overview of contemporary developments in all the major branches of the discipline. As such it provides a valuable introduction ...
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Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415616119 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in the major branches of the subject. It thereby provides an introductory guide to contemporary trends and forms a reference point for future development in the subject.
First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. I... |
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Landscape Construction: Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures
ISBN: 9780566090431 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third volume of Landscape Construction covers the design and construction of simple earth and water retaining structures as far as the normal scope of landscape work is concerned. Major civil engineering work such as highway embankments and reservoirs are excluded. Chapters one to four cover the simpler forms of earth retention likely to be part of a landscape contract, divided into: methods of construction that rely on the soil as part of the structure; various types of gravity retaining walls; and those which are constructed independently of the soil. Chapters five to nine deal with...
This third volume of Landscape Construction covers the design and construction of simple earth and water retaining structures as far as the normal sco...
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Change and Development in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals): Essays in Honour of W.B. Fisher
ISBN: 9780415820813 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of the highest "per capita "incomes in the world. Much modern development has been spatially polarized, accentuating the concentrations of rapidly growing populations and posing severe problems for planners. Cultivation and pastoralism, the main traditional activities, have often suffered from... The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still d... |
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The Power of Geography (Rle Social & Cultural Geography): How Territory Shapes Social Life
ISBN: 9780415735049 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its...
This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, educat...
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Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality
ISBN: 9781138058125 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Contemporary Caribbean
ISBN: 9781138135369 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as slavery, the plantation system and plantocracy are explored in order to explain the contemporary nature of, and challenges faced by, the Caribbean. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with: the foundations of the Caribbean, rural and urban bases of the contemporary Caribbean, and global restructuring and the Caribbean: industry, tourism and politics. This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical asp... |
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Tourism and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781138013254 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By January 2015 the world s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor? Are ever-expanding tourism markets a smoke-free, socioculturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever... By January 2015 the world s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world s population. It is a global unevenness th... |
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GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications
ISBN: 9781138785137 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis. It considers how geography can 'outreach' to the wider community and demonstrates the importance of applied GIS and spatial analysis for solving real world problems in both the public and private sector. The book is divided into two sections. The first section introduces basic theoretical material from a social science perspective. This section explores how spatial data is handled in a GIS, forms of geocoding, geoprocessing and... This book explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis. It c... |
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Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region
ISBN: 9781138963030 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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