Geography kategória termékei

L'Amerique Meridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century

Landmark Maps of Texas - The Frank and Carol Holcomb Collection

Landmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. 100 maps in their old col...

Living the Urban Periphery - Infrastructure, Everyday Life and Economic Change in African City-Regions

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheri...

Making Geography Matter - The Past and Present of a Changing Discipline

What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate? This book addr...

Making Markets Making Place - Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace

This book examines place and place-making in London¿s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (¿place-writing) to interrogate ...

Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications

This book integrates spatial analysis into the study and management of conflicts, and offers a model in conflict studies that incorporate...

Modelling Landscape Dynamics - Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity

This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics. It is systematicall...

Mountains - Sporting in the most beautiful mountain regions in Europe

Mountains guides you through the rich array of mountain sports, and in the meantime lets you discover the 20 most beautiful - known and l...

Mysteries of the Deep - How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History

"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, trans...

Myths of Geography - Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong

Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped...

New Geographies of Music 2 - Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Politics, and Place-Making

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest ...

Non-Linear Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Data

This book is based on satellite image processing focussing on the potential of hyperspectral image processing research taking a case stud...

Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Introduction to Marine Science

Oceanography and Marine Biology preserves the basic elements of the physical, chemical, and geological aspects of the marine sciences, an...

On the Logics of Planetary Computing - Artificial Intelligence and Geography in the Alas Mertajati

A new breed of low Earth orbit satellites is making planetary-scale observation and analysis ubiquitous.This book explores how this condi...

Performing Technocapitalism - The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to invest their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionaliti...

Photogrammetrie - Laserscanning - Optische 3D-Messtechnik - Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage und des BIMtages 2024

Das Institut für Angewandte Photogrammetrie und Geoinformatik der Jade Hochschule Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth führte vom 31.01. bis ...

Planned Management of Forests

Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that...

Political Campaigning in Digital India

This book provides a conceptual toolkit to understand the changing technologies and dynamics of political campaigning in India. It discus...

Principles of Map Design

This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or techn...

Privileging Water in Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans - An Environmental History

The environmental histories of Lima, Mexico City, and New Orleans provide provocative case studies of the role of water in shaping urban ...

Recent Innovations In Oil and Gas Recovery

In pioneering age of oil and gas production science had little effect on progress. The situation in the 20th and particularly in the 21st...

Remote Sensing Geology

Over the past decade, advances in sensor technology, processing algorithms, and computational capacity have taken remote sensing to a lev...

Remote Sensing Handbook, Volume VI - Droughts, Disasters, Pollution, and Urban Mapping

Volume VI of the Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing in the assessment and monitoring of dro...

Sailing School - Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print ...

Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape

Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in a...

Sea and Settlement in Ireland

Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first cross the sea and it i...

Sea Change - An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

"Sea level rise will make all current atlases obsolete as it encroaches on coastlines and erases whole islands from the Arctic to the Sou...

SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES - A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss

The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly re...

Social Mobilisation for Climate Change

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climat...

Spaces of Work - Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour

This book is an examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors assess the present condition and future prospects for ...

Storied Deserts - Reimagining Global Arid Lands

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of rese...

Strategic Use of GIS in Controlling Pipeline Vandalism of Oil and Gas

Nigeria is among the top ten nations of the world that is endowed and blessed with oil and gas. However, the oil and gas industry has con...

Subverting Politics - Autonomous Social Movements Today

Terra Forma - A Book of Speculative Maps

"Reconsideration of maps, as well as the state of the world as shown through them"--

The Alps

The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict - Anatomy of a Failure

This book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the ...

The Geography Behind History

The Global Casino - An Introduction to Environmental Issues

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the polit...

The Hamlyn dictionary of geography

The Hidden Company That Trees Keep - Life from Treetops to Root Tips

"This book takes a deep dive into the complex and endlessly fascinating relationships between trees and the many organisms that rely on t...

The Joy Experiments - Reimagining Mid-sized Cities to Heal Our Divided Society

A new perspective on developing shared joy in urban spaces. Our divided society is quickly reaching crisis level. We are no longer able t...

The Management of Forests

Originally published in 1968, this book discusses the principles and methods on which forest management has been founded in the past and ...

The Maps of Second Bull Run - An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Battle of Chantilly, June 26 - September 1, 1862

The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Bat...

The Maros/Mures River Valley

The Middle East and North Africa - A Contemporary Geography

A thematic, critical introduction to the regional geography of the Middle East and Northern Africa.

The Phantom Atlas - The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

The astonishing story of the maps and atlases throughout history that got it completely wrong. "The Phantom Atlas" is a beautifully produ...

The Red Atlas - How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russ...

The Right to Suburbia - Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

"Full of lessons about organizing in the suburbs and building a suburban anti-displacement toolbox, The Right to Suburbia offers food for...

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the recent developments, conceptual, t...

The Search for Modern China

This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductor...

The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography - Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century

This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic ter...

The Spirit and Purpose of Geography

First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography. This undertakes...

The Squander and Salvage of Global Urban Waterfronts

The redevelopment of London Docklands set a new standard for urban regeneration. City governments all over the world now aspire to the hi...

The Transforming Spatial Organization in the Information Age

This book provides a critical account, a state-of-the-art review, as well as novel research methods of information technology development...

Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence - Remembering the Holocaust and the Pacific War

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they ...

Transport Geopolitics - Decoding and Understanding Transport as a Source of Conflicts

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institution...

Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization

This book examines the progression of real estate development within the deindustrialization-financialization nexus. It explores the role...

Way of the sea (the use & abuse of the oceans)