Télécharger le livre :  Contested Energy Spaces

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...
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Parution : 2018-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives to Postglacial Uplift

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...
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Parution : 2018-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Cities and Mega-Cities

This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them. In nine chapters, the book focuses on rehabilitation and...
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Parution : 2018-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Will Miami Survive?

This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA. It focuses on how the modern financial system, particularly the mortgage market, perceives and manages the risk of climate change. Authors Kathleen Sealey,...
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Parution : 2018-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ghost Cities of Australia

This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century...
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Parution : 2018-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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Parution : 2016-06-11
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