Télécharger le livre :  Transformation of the natural environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) since the 1980s
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This revised edition describes the transformation of the environment and landscape of Western Sørkapp Land based on research data collected by Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions in the period 1980–1986 and in 2008. It also outlines potential directions of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-10
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Vehicular Air Pollution and Urban Sustainability
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This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability. Air pollution (from vehicular traffic) has been monitored at three locations in...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-29
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Israel's Invisible Negev Bedouin
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This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population.  In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Cosmopolitanism
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This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining  the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-05-15
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Origin and Formation of Coastal Boulder Deposits at Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, Western Ireland
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This book presents geomorphological and sedimentological aspects of Holocene boulder ridges along the coastline of western Ireland (the Aran Islands and Galway Bay). Given these boulders’ size, extent and altitude, they are among the most spectacular deposits moved by...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Unique Urbanity?
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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Landscape Planning and Rural Development
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This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas. It highlights the key issues at stake and the possibilities for synergies between landscape planning and policies in light of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond the North-South Culture Wars
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Increasingly, Australia’s agriculturalists are looking to the nation’s north to escape the decline in southern Australia’s water and soil resources. Booming mineral and gas development is also helping to drive the nation’s economic success. At the same time, the south’s...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-30
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Intensive Variable and Its Application
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There are still insufficient general theories on the law of diminishing returns, despite 100 years of development. Starting with intensive variables theory, and by utilizing tools of spatiotemporal correlation and intensive functions, moving on to the integrated curve...

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Parution : 2014-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fundamentals of Human Factors Design for Volunteered Geographic Information
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This book explores the roles in which volunteered and professional information play within neogeography from a human factors perspective. The unique advantages of each information type are considered alongside how they may be utilised to create products and services...

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Parution : 2014-01-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Houses in Transformation
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This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it explains the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Potsdamer Platz
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The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically...

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Parution : 2013-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Strike the Rock and There Shall Come Water
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This book presents an update and revision of the book Water Shall Flow from the Rock - Hydrogeology and Climate in the Lands of the Bible by A. Issar, published by Springer-Verlag in 1990. The enormous quantity and quality of new data added since 1990 called for a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-11
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Over-Exploitation of Forests
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North east India is a global biodiversity hotspot but a quite understudied area. Forest loss has always been problematic in the area. Using Landsat satellite data from three periods (70s, 80s/90s and 2010s), forest loss is assessed in sample protected areas and other...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Living with Transformation
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This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. After describing briefly the history of self-built houses and the phenomenon of transformation around the world, it focuses on its...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing
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Although the development of remote sensing techniques focuses greatly on construction of new sensors with higher spatial and spectral resolution, it is advisable to also use data of older sensors (especially, the LANDSAT-mission) when the historical mapping of land...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Land Use Dynamics in a Developing Economy
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Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Geographies of the Internet
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Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Growth Analysis and Remote Sensing
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This book documents research conducted on the analysis of urban growth and sprawl by using remote sensing data and GIS techniques. The research was conducted between 1980-2010 in the city of Kolkata, India. The aim of the research was to use metrics that were less...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City
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Both “land-use regulation” and “territorial collective services” have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within “contractual...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-01-05
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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