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This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to...
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Springer
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2021-09-15
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Globally, concerns for the environment and human well-being have increased as results of threats imposed by climate change and disasters, environmental degradation, pollution of natural resources, water scarcity and proliferation of slums. Finding appropriate solutions...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-14
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This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing...
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Springer
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2021-09-07
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This book identifies and provides reasoning for computed methods of local climate dynamics and the livelihood vulnerability indices assessment in the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, India. The outcomes of this study agree with the focused objectives on...
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Springer
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2021-09-02
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In this book, climate change and digital transformation are explored as key strategic drivers for the contemporary practices of water utility companies. These drivers seem to be separate, but clearly, they are not.The recent weather anomalies in water stressed countries...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-02
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This book adopts numerical method to model soil constitutive relationship while it abandons the traditional idea of looking for plastic potential as the only way to model. Firstly, the triaxial compression tests of expansive soil, sand and clay under different stress...
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Springer
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2021-09-01
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Überschwemmungen, Artensterben, Völkerwanderungen, Dürren, Supertornados - der Klimawandel ist keine am Horizont drohende Gefahr mehr, sondern längst in unserem Alltag angekommen. Die Lage ist sehr ernst, aber wir haben durchaus Konzepte, den verheerenden Klimatrend...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-01
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OPEN CHANNEL DESIGN A fundamental knowledge of flow in open channels is essential for the planning and design of systems to manage water resources. Open channel design has applications within many fields, including civil engineering, agriculture, hydrology,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-09-01
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The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-31
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The Urban Book Series
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Reinforce understanding throughout the course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help students target higher grades. Written by experienced subject experts Cameron Dunn and Michael Witherick, this Student Guide is divided into two key...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-08-31
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Reinforce understanding throughout the course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help students target higher grades.Written by experienced teacher and subject experts David Redfern and Catherine Owen, this Student Guide is divided into two...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-08-31
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This book is a contribution by the presenters of the 2020 International Conference on the Nile and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Nile basin is facing unprecedented level of water right challenges after the construction of GERD has begun. Ethiopia, Egypt...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-31
Collection :
Springer Geography
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The environmental burden caused by private transportation represents a significant challenge towards sustainability. Electric vehicles are considered a key technology to reduce the environmental impact caused by the mobility sector. However, the global adoption of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-30
Collection :
Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-28
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This book provides an appealing and informative overview of the outstanding landforms and landscapes of Scotland. Scotland is internationally renowned for the diversity of its geology, landforms and landscapes. The rock record spans most of geological time, from the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-24
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This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary assessment of different problems associated with estuarine acidification with special thrust on mangrove dominated Indian Sundarban estuaries. The arms of ocean acidification have extended to coastal and estuarine...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-24
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The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored. Geographers and philosophers share the responsibility for that. On the one hand, geographers have considered as a dangerous deviation any attempt to elaborate an image of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-23
Collection :
Springer Geography
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The book deals primarily with the aspects of advances in Self-Potential geophysical data modeling, different interpretation techniques, new ideas and an integrated study to delineate the subsurface structures associated with exploration, contamination, buried...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-21
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This volume explains the national and regional border modifications that took place in Europe from 1870 to 2020. It provides insights that allow us to understand boundary changes for several different levels of territorial organization. The text describes the state...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-20
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg, groups like Extinction Rebellion, the IPCC's recent high impact reports, tv...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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