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Practical Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists provides an introductory guide to the principles and application of statistical analysis in context. This book helps students to gain the level of competence in statistical procedures necessary for independent...
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Wiley
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2010-11-18
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Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-05
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. In the relatively short history of mankind on earth, the landscape and soils of the world have been drastically modified from their "natural " state....
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Springer
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2010-10-27
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This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where the climate warming is most pronounced compared to other areas of the globe. The climate warming in the far North, and in the Arctic region of Northern...
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Springer
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2010-10-26
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NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-09-29
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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What were the landscapes of the past like?What will landscapes look like in the future?
Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-26
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Precision farming is an agricultural management system using global navigation satellite systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and data management systems for optimizing the use of nutrients, water, seed, pesticides and energy in heterogeneous field...
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Springer
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2010-08-03
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The Siberian environment is a unique region of the world that is both very strongly affected by global climate change and at the same time particularly vulnerable to its consequences.The news about the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and the prospect of an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-07-20
Collection :
Advances in Global Change Research
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Biogeography has renewed its concepts and methods following important recent advances in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems. In parallel, the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions has attracted the interests of numerous studies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-01
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This comprehensive textbook offers a conceptual and practical introduction to research methodology, data collection, and techniques used in both human and physical geography. Explores a full range of contemporary geographic techniques, including statistics,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-06-29
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
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Editeur :
Springer
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2010-04-23
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European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority. Instead of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-12
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Cartography and geographic information (GI) are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning (EW) and crisis management (CM). The use of geospatial technology has increased tremendously in the last years. ICT has changed from just using...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-03-15
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Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-01-23
Collection :
Advances in Geographic Information Science
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A COMPANION TO HEALTH AND MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY A Companion to Health and Medical Geography provides an essential starting point for anyone interested in studying the role of geography and of geographers, both past and present, in promoting an understanding of issues...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California, parts of Chile and Australia), wildland fires are recurrent phenomena every...
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Springer
Parution :
2009-09-25
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This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when food production...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-07-29
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Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems
With a detailed contextualising introduction,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-07-09
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3D surface representation has long been a source of information describing surface character and facilitating an understanding of system dynamics from micro-scale (e.g. sand transport) to macro-scale (e.g. drainage channel network evolution). Data collection has been...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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