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Spaces of Geographical Thought examines key ideas – like space and place - which inform the geographic imagination. The text: discusses the core conceptual vocabulary of human geography: agency: structure; state: society; culture: economy; space: place; black: white;...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-01-26
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'The social and political power of the verity that there are no such things as economies, only economic geographies demands an analysis of the complex flows and relations implied by it. At last, here is a book – the book - which addresses the questions central to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-01-11
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About this book This book focuses on research advances in approaches for incorporating explicit handling of uncertainty, especially by fuzzy sets, to address geographic......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book Urban Transport Development is a contribution to the ongoing global discussion on the future of urban transport. The main themes are how to......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous...
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book The primary aim of this monograph is to present the current knowledge of brittle properties of rocks as determined in laboratory experiments. The principal......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book This is the first book to provide measurements of greenhouse gases from both aquatic and terrestrial Environmental-Plant sciencess as well as from......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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About this book The book covers not only practical aspects but also the underlying theoretical approaches. It also covers the fundamentals of rock mechanics. It addresses not......
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Springer-Verlag
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2005
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"Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art."
- Geographische Rundschau
"With Rural...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-12-09
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Understanding and predicting the behaviour of natural and human environmental systems is crucial for the effective management of the Earth’s limited resources. Recently, great advances have been made through spatial modelling. This book provides a snapshot of the latest...
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Wiley
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2004-10-22
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The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape. This book...
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Wiley
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2004-10-22
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To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-09-16
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'The Emancipatory City is a wonderful addition to a growing literature on the public culture of the city. In these spaces, tolerance and intolerance, difference and indifference, transgressions, resistances, and playful spontaneity erupt to give texture to urban life....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-08-31
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'This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-08-03
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'Filling an enormous gap in the geographic literature, here is a terrific book that shows us how to think about and practice human geographic research' - Professor Jennifer Wolch, University of Southern California
`Practising Human Geography lucidly, comprehensively,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2004-04-21
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This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces.
Examining...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-18
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Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-03-11
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Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies. Approaching this issue from a different angle to those dominating 1980s and 1990s debates...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-03-04
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This highly topical study of tropical deforestation in Mexico reports on the first phase of the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region Project (LCLUC-SYPR): a large, multi-institutional, and team-based study designed to understand and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-02-19
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