Environmental Systems: Philosophy, Analysis and Control
ISBN: 9780691628042 / Angielski / Miękka / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an indispensable text and reference book for anyone interested in a systems approach to environmental studies. It will be useful not only to geographers but also to ecologists and other environmental scientists; planners; economists and other social scientists; philosophers; and applied mathematicians. Bennett and Chorley's book has a number of broad aims: first, to employ the systems approach to provide an interdisciplinary focus on environmental structures and techniques; second, to use this approach to aid in developing the interfacing of social and economic theory with... Here is an indispensable text and reference book for anyone interested in a systems approach to environmental studies. It will be useful not only t... |
|
cena:
557,87 zł |
Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
ISBN: 9781782389156 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume...What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or culturally conditioned to read different landscapes." - The Australian Journal of Anthropology "The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological... "This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributi... |
|
cena:
141,08 zł |
Fluid Frontiers: New Currents in Marine Environmental History
ISBN: 9781874267867 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic, from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of inquiry to tie...
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen e...
|
|
cena:
430,77 zł |
Us-China Strategic Competition: Towards a New Power Equilibrium
ISBN: 9783662466599 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the nature and consequences of strategic competition between the US and China, which affects the global security landscape and the emerging security architecture across the broader Asia-Pacific region. The author illustrates the evolution of Sino-US security interactions from the anti-Soviet alliance, to temporary marginalization, to eventual strategic competition and examines cases that could potentially escalate into greater conflicts. The analysis offers tantalizing glimpses into both the dangers and promising opportunities presented by this strategic fork in the road,...
This book examines the nature and consequences of strategic competition between the US and China, which affects the global security landscape and the ...
|
|
cena:
194,08 zł |
Return to the Street
ISBN: 9780957147058 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an attempt to think through what might be termed a 'return' to the street. This is not a bright, new dawn. It is not the first steps out into the light following an environmental or technological apocalypse. This return concerns a renewed and heightened awareness of the vast social inequalities, violence and exclusion which continue to be perpetuated across the world. To challenge such inequality requires confrontation with the individuals, agents, institutions and authorities who actively promote and enact such violence and exclusion. It requires the occupation of sites and...
This book is an attempt to think through what might be termed a 'return' to the street. This is not a bright, new dawn. It is not the first steps out ...
|
|
cena:
143,55 zł |
Glasgow: The Socio-Spatial Development of the City
ISBN: 9781138928626 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1995, this book employs a historical-geographical approach to illuminate the interaction between the multifarious social and spatial forces which have conditioned the processes and patterns of urban growth and change over time in Scotland's principle city. The book is organised into two complementary parts. In the first part, a chronological approach is adopted to examine the main agents, processes and patterns underlying the development of the city from its pre-urban origins until the close of the nineteenth century. In the second part, the major issues relating... First published in 1995, this book employs a historical-geographical approach to illuminate the interaction between the multifarious social and spa... |
|
cena:
731,87 zł |
Global Sustainability, Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research
ISBN: 9783319164762 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and sustainability policies were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. They are largely based on investigations of living spaces and the evolution and differentiation of varied life forms. This...
This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fo...
|
|
cena:
465,84 zł |
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
ISBN: 9780393351644 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a "frozen ark," equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic... Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness.... |
|
cena:
63,76 zł |
Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier
ISBN: 9781137494078 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. By focusing on the landscape of the 'ancient tea forest' (guchalin), this book aims to understand the interactions among tea trees, entrepreneurs, the state, and the Bulang, an ethnic minority population. Intensive ethnographic research conducted by the author examines local Bulang villagers' everyday lives as entrepreneurs in the market economy at a time of changing moralities and cultural renovations. The author explores the dilemmas that...
In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier Chin...
|
|
cena:
194,08 zł |
Rethinking Creative Cities Policy: Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists
ISBN: 9781138890084 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the creative city concept, due to the anticipation of economic and social benefits from a growing cultural and creative economy. However, a lack of understanding of local social and economic contexts, as well as the complexities and challenges of cultural production, has resulted in formulaic, ineffective misguided policies. This book is concerned, in various ways, with developing an understanding of the complex dimensions of cultural production, and with tackling the often weak and implied links between... In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the creative city concept, due to the anticipation of economic and ... |
|
cena:
656,16 zł |
Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene: Institutions and Legitimacy in a Complex World
ISBN: 9781138902398 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth s ecosystems. While the natural sciences have advanced their understanding of the drivers and processes of global change considerably over the last two decades, the social sciences lag behind in addressing the fundamental challenge of governance and politics in the Anthropocene. This book attempts to close this crucial research gap, in particular with regards to the following three overarching research themes: (i) the meaning, sense-making and... The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth s ecosystems. While... |
|
cena:
731,87 zł |
Mobilities and Foucault
ISBN: 9781138904842 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Foucault s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some mobilities scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic. Yet Foucault s work can make critical contributions, for example, to thinking about governing mobilities in contemporary societies, while conversely mobilities research opens up new perspectives on Foucault. In combination these bodies of work can illuminate issues as diverse as: the greater interdependencies between mobility systems (e.g. transport, tourism, trade, internet use); the proliferation of... Although Foucault s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some mobilities scholars, discussion across these two traditions to dat... |
|
cena:
656,16 zł |
Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes
ISBN: 9781447301349 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe to explore the processes that lead to segregation and the outcomes and implications that result. Making use of new methods and data sources that offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts, the book considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured.
This volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe to explore the processes that lead to segregation a...
|
|
cena:
156,42 zł |
Literature and the Peripheral City
ISBN: 9781137492876 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slum...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |
Place Names of Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299309640 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The colorful history and culture of Wisconsin are reflected in its place names, from those created by Native Americans, French explorers, and diverse European settlers to more recent appellations commemorating political figures, postmasters, and landowners. Organized alphabetically for easy reference, Edward Callary s concise entries reveal the stories behind such intriguing names as Fussville, Misha Mokwa, Couderay, and Thiry Daems. Fun to read and packed with information, Place Names of Wisconsin is a must-have for anyone interested in Wisconsin and Midwest history, language,...
The colorful history and culture of Wisconsin are reflected in its place names, from those created by Native Americans, French explorers, and diverse ...
|
|
cena:
105,06 zł |
Hierarchy, Information and Power: Cities as Corporate Command and Control Centers
ISBN: 9781138689961 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The proposed book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O. Wheeler (1938-2010). The eight papers are informed and inspired by James O. Wheeler's many contributions to urban geography, particularly in the areas of urban hierarchy, information flows, cities in the telecommunications age, and cities as corporate command and control centers. They adopt and extend Jim Wheeler s corporate and/or hierarchical approaches to discuss institutional investment in the U.S., corporate interlocking... The proposed book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York ho... |
|
cena:
656,16 zł |
Planning Cultures and Histories: The Evolution of Planning Systems and Spatial Development Patterns
ISBN: 9781138687806 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 engage in a search for new conceptual frameworks and alternative points of view to better understand and explain these differences. The book makes three main academic contributions. First, it catalogues some of the key changes in planning systems and the impact on spatial development patterns. Second, it examines the interrelationship... This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development. As wel... |
|
cena:
656,16 zł |
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
ISBN: 9781138687271 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African cities have developed haphazardly, resulting in the decline of public services, in slum proliferation, and increases in poverty. African cities thrive on activities characterized by easy entry and low productivity, generally referred to as the "informal sector." Indeed, today some urban dwellers are... The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve livi... |
|
cena:
237,17 zł |
Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography
ISBN: 9781138687226 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, accessible, simple and topical, this volume is perfectly suited to researchers, students and lecturers who are interested in understanding sub-Saharan African population dynamics and issues.
This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive anal... |
|
cena:
161,47 zł |
Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices
ISBN: 9781138193659 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latina, Jewish and Multiracial backgrounds. The contributors express a myriad of ways that the relationship between the ecological and social have brought new understanding to their experiences and work in the world. Moreover by working with these edges of awareness, they are identifying new forms... This book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the bound... |
|
cena:
757,10 zł |