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Northern Ireland and Beyond: Social and Geographical Issues
ISBN: 9789048147045 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression and ruthless emargination of the native population by the Protestant settlers. At the time of partition, many areas already had a Catholic majority, and the Catholic population is increasing faster, thereby undermining the Protestant position. Britain gains no advantage by keeping Northern Ireland. Nevertheless, this solution is not going to be cheap, not merely because of opposition by Protestant loyalists, but also because of the economic...
Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression an...
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Evaluation in Planning: Facing the Challenge of Complexity
ISBN: 9789048150700 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the result of a three day workshop on "Evaluation in theory and practice in spatial planning" held in Ramsey Hall, University College London, in September 1996. Some 30 people from 8 different countries attended and 20 papers were presented. The majority of them now form the basis for this book. This occasion was the third on the topic, the two preceding having taken place in Umea in June 1992 and in Bari in 1994. Following these three meetings, we can now say that this small, industrious, international family really enjoy meeting up from time to time at each others places, in...
This book is the result of a three day workshop on "Evaluation in theory and practice in spatial planning" held in Ramsey Hall, University College Lon...
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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9789048151950 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change.
Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical... Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. C...
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Fieldwork in Geography: Reflections, Perspectives and Actions
ISBN: 9789048154661 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education. The range of international geography and educational experts who contributed to this volume has demonstrated that the concept of fieldwork has a considerable history in the field of geography. They have demonstrated that the theoretical aspects of fieldwork have been interpreted differently in regions around the world, but the importance of fieldwork remains strong globally.
A... Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, a...
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Societal Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
ISBN: 9789048154944 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changes in climate and climate variability have an effect on people's behaviour around the world, and public institutions have an important part to play in influencing our ability to respond to and plan for climate risk. We may be able to reduce climate risk by seeking to mitigate the threat on the one hand, and by adapting to a changed climate on the other. Another theme of the book is the integrated role of adaptation and mitigation in framing issues and performing analyses. Adaptation costs fall most heavily on the poor and special attention needs to be paid to adaptation by the poorest...
Changes in climate and climate variability have an effect on people's behaviour around the world, and public institutions have an important part to pl...
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Geography, Culture and Education
ISBN: 9789048161256 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society. We readily accept that our world is constituted by numerous groups of people who are organised by committees, tribes, regions, nations or continental entities. How these groups interact, show concern for each others' well-being and progress is still an unpredictable activity. Intercultural tensions, racial conflicts and religious clashes have all led to the challenges for enacting a constructive world. Fundamental perspectives...
An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the glob...
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Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures
ISBN: 9789048162710 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature,...
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the envi...
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Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9789048164059 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive productivity vs. labor intensive employment generation, suffocating pollution caused by both industries and motor vehicle fumes, crumbling urban facilities and education / health care systems and above...
st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current cen...
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European Rural Landscapes: Persistence and Change in a Globalising Environment
ISBN: 9789048165858 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, a compendium of 28 papers selected from two recent conferences on the topic, focuses on aspects of rural landscape, broadly related to issues of language, representation and power. These are issues that have not been addressed on a pan-European landscape level before.The aim is to offer a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary processes in European landscapes. This book, a compendium of 28 papers selected from two recent conferences on the topic, focuses on aspects of rural landscape, broadly related to i... |
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Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies: Experiences in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9789048167319 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea of a national park are a continuing reality of contemporary national and transnational parks. The volume seeks to dispel the myth that colonial beliefs and practices in protected areas have ended with the introduction of new nature conservation policies and practices. It explores this continuity against the backdrop of the development of the national park idea in the West, and its trajectories in colonial and postcolonial societies,... Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original We... |
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Environmental Change and its Implications for Population Migration
ISBN: 9789048167357 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transforming present day landscapes and their ecological characteristics. As a consequence, disruptions of socio-economic activities in sensitive regions of the globe can be expected in coming decades. Agriculture is at particular risk, especially in areas where prolonged droughts, sea level rise, enhanced natural hazards, or extreme meteorological events such as floods or mudslides threaten marginal existence. Disruptions and risks may have large... Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, tran... |
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Learning from Clusters: A Critical Assessment from an Economic-Geographical Perspective
ISBN: 9789048169252 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jan Lambooy retired in October 2002. When Jan was asked how he wanted to celebrate this occasion, he was adamant that no great festivities should take place. Characteristically, Jan wanted just a scientific conference so he could learn something from it and, as he insisted, no great festivities. So that is what we did and a conference was organised in Amsterdam on 25 October 2002, hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics of the University of Amsterdam. Friends of Jan s from academia in the Netherlands and abroad participated and thus paid homage to Jan, both as a scientist and as a...
Jan Lambooy retired in October 2002. When Jan was asked how he wanted to celebrate this occasion, he was adamant that no great festivities should take...
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Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects
ISBN: 9789048199198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. Detailed maps and photographs illustrate the megaprojects themselves and the impacts they have. This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplina... |
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Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
ISBN: 9780415891585 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. It exams the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing.
This volume explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s...
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Growing Up
ISBN: 9783836484466 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Les Réseaux de la Conquète.
ISBN: 9786131535437 / Francuski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La croissance du cheptel bovin et l'avancee des fronts pionniers sont deux processus mal connus en Amazonie bresilienne, mais qui posent avec gravite la question de la durabilite du developpement territorial dans cette region. Pour comprendre cette situation et montrer de possibles solutions, l'auteur developpe une analyse fonctionnelle de la filiere bovine: l'approche systemique permet de dechiffrer la complexite des relations entre acteurs, et d'analyser l'influence de chaque sous-filiere sur les strategies individuelles et collectives. Puis il propose une analyse conceptuelle des fronts...
La croissance du cheptel bovin et l'avancee des fronts pionniers sont deux processus mal connus en Amazonie bresilienne, mais qui posent avec gravite ...
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La Financiarisation de L Immobilier Et La Durabilité
ISBN: 9786131536878 / Francuski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dans quelle mesure les caisses de pension suisses prennent-elles en compte les critA]res du dA(c)veloppement durable dans leurs pratiques? Pour rA(c)pondre A cette question, il est nA(c)cessaire de considA(c)rer le contexte de financiarisation de l'A(c)conomie. Deux circuits d'investissement immobilier sont A distinguer. Dans le premier circuit direct, les caisses agissent comme entrepreneurs et investisseurs, les investissements sont rA(c)gionaux et sont A(c)valuA(c)s selon des modalitA(c)s propres aux caisses. Dans ce contexte, la prise en compte de critA]res de durabilitA(c) relA]ve des...
Dans quelle mesure les caisses de pension suisses prennent-elles en compte les critA]res du dA(c)veloppement durable dans leurs pratiques? Pour rA(c)p...
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Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
ISBN: 9780415892223 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of twenty-first century capitalism's global modalities. Drawn from settings across the globe, case studies explore the nuanced formations of class and power within particular migration flows while addressing the complex analytics of a contemporary critical political...
This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migra...
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Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
ISBN: 9780415892230 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on small and less economically dominant cities. It highlights relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalisation, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.
This volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on small and less economically dominant cities. It highlights relatively ignored themes s...
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Rural-urban linkages in Gimbi and its hinterlands
ISBN: 9783639297379 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most development thinking is implicitly based on rural and urban dichotomy, which is manifested in a number of development policies prepared for urban and rural areas separately. But now recent development paradigms give attention to mutual development of both rural and urban areas, which is manifested by rural-urban linkages. Therefore The main purpose of this study is to explore the nature, extent, and determinants of rural-urban linkages particularly production and consumption interdependences between the town of Gimbi and its hinterlands. This material will be helpful for higher...
Most development thinking is implicitly based on rural and urban dichotomy, which is manifested in a number of development policies prepared for urban...
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