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Télécharger le livre :  Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards
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Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards


Mary J. Thornbush , Sylvia E. Thornbush


This book provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the degradation and deterioration of the cultural record encompassed by urban headstones located in parish churchyards. Its interdisciplinary approach allows the geomorphological analysis of rock weathering to be...

Parution : 2018-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities
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Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities


Rosalba D'onofrio , Elio Trusiani


This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between “healthy cities” and “urban planning”, examining various best practices in Europe. It uses the above as a starting point and investigates different aspects of healthy cities, examining various best...

Parution : 2018-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis
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Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis


Ombretta Caldarice


This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities...

Parution : 2017-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Ground-penetrating Radar and Magnetometry for Buried Landscape Analysis
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Ground-penetrating Radar and Magnetometry for Buried Landscape Analysis


Lawrence B. Conyers


This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried archaeological landscapes. Ground-penetrating radar can be used to identify buried living surfaces, geological...

Parution : 2017-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Azerbaijan
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Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Azerbaijan


Rovshan Abbasov


This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan. A new methodology for child centered vulnerability assessments both on school and...

Parution : 2017-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptation to Coastal Storms in Atlantic Canada
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Adaptation to Coastal Storms in Atlantic Canada


Steve Plante , Mary J. Thornbush , Liette Vasseur


This brief is based on an analysis that was performed on the 2010 winter storms that caused considerable damage to coastal communities in Atlantic Canada. The hazards that occurred were associated with storm surge, high waves, coastal erosion, and flooding. The analysis...

Parution : 2017-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies
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The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies


Timothy Tambassi


This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role. Accordingly, the first part offers a short overview of...

Parution : 2017-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Rural Sustainability
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Rural Sustainability


Qing Tian


This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China....

Parution : 2017-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecological Liberation Theology
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Ecological Liberation Theology


William Holden , Kathleen Nadeau , Emma Porio


 Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples’ lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities. This book looks at local-level responses to...

Parution : 2017-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California
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Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California


James B. Pick


The book analyzes the problems and potential of renewable energy development for the Coachella Valley of California and provides a useful case study for renewable energy feasibility assessments for other areas. A conceptual model, Integrated Policy Assessment Theory for...

Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Development in Asia: Pathways, Opportunities and Challenges
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Urban Development in Asia: Pathways, Opportunities and Challenges


Xiangzheng Deng , Qian Zhang


This book aims to present implications for China’s urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social...

Parution : 2017-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Spatiotemporal Processes of Plant Phenology
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Spatiotemporal Processes of Plant Phenology


Xiaoqiu Chen


This book deals with phenology, the study of recurring biological life cycle stages, and especially their timing and relationships with biotic and abiotic forces.  Given the theoretical and methodological innovations involved, the chapters on defining...

Parution : 2016-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing
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Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing


Nadia Caruso


This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban...

Parution : 2016-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives
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Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives


Andrew Emmanuel Okem


The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and...

Parution : 2016-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Tourism in Antarctica
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Tourism in Antarctica


Collectif


This book discusses the expansion of new activities carried out in Antarctica and the focus among treaty parties on the perceived challenges posed by adventure tourism in the region. Shedding light on the latest trends and the modus operandi of all parties involved, it...

Parution : 2016-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe
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Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe


Elmond Bandauko , Innocent Chirisa , Elias Mazhindu


This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe. The debates included highlight a number of issues in the peri-urban context, such as access to water, appropriate technologies and land management, political economy in...

Parution : 2016-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Geographic Interpretations of the Internet
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Geographic Interpretations of the Internet


Aharon Kellerman


This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The book’s approach is to extend basic concepts developed for terrestrial geography to cyberspace, most notably those relating to...

Parution : 2016-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Coastal Morphodynamics
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Coastal Morphodynamics


Nilay Kanti Barman , Soumendu Chatterjee , Ashis Kumar Paul


This book discusses the perceptions and sketches, geological background, materials and coastal processes of the East Coast of India. It also suggests strategies for effectively managing natural coastal processes in these areas. India has a coastline of about 7,516 km...

Parution : 2016-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Infrastructure Research
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Urban Infrastructure Research


Alok Tiwari


This book reviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities. It examines urban infrastructure issues in these cities and covers a wide range of topics from sustainability and smart cities to research methods employed by urban infrastructure...

Parution : 2016-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Survey Control Points
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Survey Control Points


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This work deals with the issue of geodetic network structures, i.e. methods of verifying the condition of existing geodetic controls in terms of their compatibility and thereby their applicability.  The presented work addresses these problems only for geodetic...

Parution : 2015-12-29
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