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102 produkter
Historical Perspectives to Postglacial Uplift
Case Studies from the Lower Satakunta Region
Av Jari Pohjola, Jari Turunen m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower Satakunta, Finland; this region is known for its rich cultural history. The book presents methods to model …
Contested Energy Spaces
Disassembling Energyscapes of the Canadian North
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context of indigenous communities that have allowed industrial developments to occur on their lands despite the environmental and lifestyle …
Understanding Flood Preparedness
Flood Memories, Social Vulnerability and Risk Communication in Southern Poland
Av Jarosław Działek, Wojciech Biernacki m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding. It is based on original research carried out in twelve areas in southern Poland that suffered serious flood damage in the past thirty years. The underlying research was intended, on the one hand, …
Urban Green Spaces
Public Health and Sustainability in the United States
Av Viniece Jennings, Matthew H. E. M. Browning m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
625 kr
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This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health. In this regard, the book highlights how ecosystem services provided by green spaces affect multiple aspects of human health and well-being, offering a strategic …
Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Contemporary Cities
Av Alfredo Mela, Alessia Toldo
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena. Unlike similar books, it does not discuss exclusion and inclusion in particular geographical contexts, but instead explains these phenomena …
Planning for Resilience
New Paths for Managing Uncertainty
Av Elena Pede
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens. Chapters look at the nature of contemporary …
Laterites of the Bengal Basin
Characterization, Geochronology and Evolution
Av Sandipan Ghosh, Sanat Kumar Guchhait
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This Brief analyses and discusses the laterites in the Bengal Basin. The book highlights: (1) the definition, identification and classification of ferruginous materials, (2) the mode of laterite formation and its other horizons, (3) processes and theories of lateritisation, (4) determination of …
Operational Use of Remote Sensing in Municipalities
A Global Expert-based Study
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book presents the operational use of remote sensing in municipalities for urban planning purposes. Through a unique study among more than 70 cities and institutions in 41 countries, it reveals the remaining gap of knowledge and awareness for remote sensing data, methods, and instruments. It …
Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions
From Low Carbon to Smart Sustainable Cities
Av Mary J. Thornbush, Oleg Golubchikov
Häftad, 2019
265 kr
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This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions. From its infancy at the scale of individual buildings, a focus on ‘green’ agenda, energy, and resource efficiency has fostered research and policies for low carbon cities, eco-cities, and increasingly …
Greenspace-Oriented Development
Reconciling Urban Density and Nature in Suburban Cities
Av Julian Bolleter, Cristina E. Ramalho
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) planning principles have informed Australian city planning for over two decades. As such, policy makers and planners often unquestioningly apply its principles. In contrast, this book critiques TOD and argues that while orientating development towards public …
Theology and Urban Sustainability
Av Zaheer Allam
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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Even though theology does provide interesting and important contributions to ethics that laid the foundation of our modern societies, this book looks at exploring how theology has impacted on urban morphology and has led to questionable unsustainable practices which impacts on both climate and …
Pathways to Demographic Adaptation
Perspectives on Policy and Planning in Depopulating Areas in Northern Europe
Häftad, 2020
660 kr
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This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe. While most contemporary literature on shrinkage focuses on these issues from a planning standpoint, this book uniquely applies a policy perspective when approaching the material. The book assesses the potential …
Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games
Planning Legacies
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the …
Housing Policy and Vulnerable Families in The Inner City
Public Housing in Harlem, New York City
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book provides insights in how the lack of coherent social policy leads to the displacement of vulnerable low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods facing gentrification. First, it makes a case for how social policy by its racist setup has failed vulnerable families in the history of U.S. …
Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security
Concepts and Applications in Sub-Saharan Africa
Av Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work. Specifically, the book’s goals are to (i) present a conceptual framework for the urban …
Suburban Retail Spaces
Formative and Transformative Process
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book derives from observations of the contemporary built environment and its contradictions. The suburban retail spaces, specifically the suburban shopping mall, and the changes caused by them within urban organisms are the object of the investigation synthesized in the volume. The topic is …
Indigenous Geographies in the Yucatan
Learning From the Responsibility-Based Maya Environmental Ethos
Av Miguel Sioui
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of Xuilub (Yucatan), Mexico, is …
Pipeline Real-time Data Integration and Pipeline Network Virtual Reality System
Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline: Research and Practice
Av Zhenpei Li, Lehao Yang
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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As the second volume of the "Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline: Research and Practice" series of monographs, this book introduces the implementation strategies, examples and technical roadmaps of two important aspects of the Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline construction: pipeline real-time data integration and …
Rethinking Map Literacy
Av Ming Xie, Steven Reader m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book provides two conceptual frameworks for further investigation of map literacy and fills in a gap in map literacy studies, addressing the distinction between reference maps and thematic maps and the varying uses of quantitative map literacy (QML) within and between the two. The text offers …
Cluster Dynamics in Transition Economies
The Case of Albania
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches. It studies cluster dynamics in transition economies, exploring the case of Albania.In developing countries, the ‘model’ of the developed …
America’s Poorest and Most Affluent Counties, 1980 to 2010
Av Wendy Shaw
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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This book explores the changing spatial distribution of the United States of America's poorest and most affluent counties over the 30 years from 1980 to 2010. While overall rates of poverty have changed somewhat during this period, the geography of counties where affluence and poverty rates are the …
Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies
Applied Ontology of Geography
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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Placed at the intersection among philosophy, geography, and computer science, the domain of investigation of applied ontology of geography ranges from making explicit assumptions and commitments of geography as a discipline, to the theoretical and technical needs of geographical/IT tools, such as …
Abandonment as a Social Fact
The Problem of Unused and Unmaintained Private Buildings in a Neo-institutional Perspective
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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This book provides a multidisciplinary approach for the study of the “abandonment” problem at the inter-section among urban studies, neo-institutionalist perspectives, and social ontology. An analytical framework (based on descriptive and operational issues, factors, reasons, policies) has been …
Planning and Design Perspectives for Land Take Containment
An Operative Framework
Häftad, 2022
660 kr
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This book aims to provide a framework for the concept of land take, the practice by which natural lands are lost to artificial land development practices, and present its ecological implications in urban environments. In particular, the book intends to contextualize land take and its ecological …
Building a Compact City
Spatial Planning in Yinchuan City, Western China
Av Meng Wang
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This book serves as a solid ground for seeking strategies to build the compact city that situated in a specific local area, based on the systematic examination of the effects of spatial planning system on urbanization control. Furthermore, the critical problems in the urban planning process are …
Ecological Building Materials for Deserts and Drylands
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
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This book examines prospective climate adaptive building materials in desert and drylands in the context of climate change, desertification, urbanisation demands, and the consequent sustainable urban development challenges. This preliminary collection of ecological materials covers the …
Spatial Planning in Poland
Law, Property Market and Planning Practice
Av Maciej J. Nowak, Przemysław Śleszyński m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
508 kr
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This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system. Based on specific case studies, it gives examples of possible problems and ways of solving them. It applies to Poland's standard and the determinants of spatial …
Understanding Land Degradation
An Overview
Häftad, 2022
551 kr
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Much of the earth's population is dependent on agriculture as it provides food for their sustenance. Successful crop production depends to a considerable extent on land and climate. Soil is the main component of land and a fertile soil is essential for crop growth. However, soil fertility declines …
Sustainable Renovation of Buildings
Building Information Modelling
Av Pilar Mercader-Moyano, Manuel Ramos Martín
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus —by means of direct aids— and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale …
Priority-Zone Mapping for Reforestation
Case Study in the Montane Dry Forests of Bolivia
Av Larissa Böhrkircher, Michael Leuchner m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
551 kr
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Andean dry forest ecosystems are threatened by deforestation and unsustainable land use methods. The negative effects for the livelihood of the local population, biodiversity, and the regional climate could be countered by reforestation measures; however, dry land forests have not attracted the …
