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This book introduces remotely sensed image processing for urban areas using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and assists students, researchers, and remote sensing practitioners who are interested in land cover mapping using such data. There are many...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-02
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This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city. Recent events in the United States make the context particularly ripe for a discussion of justice in urban climate politics. On the one hand, the emergence of the Black...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-12-01
Collection :
Strategies for Sustainability
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Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-30
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This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-23
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In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice. It addresses key topics in...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-10
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This practical handbook provides a clearly structured, concise and comprehensive account of the huge variety of atmospheric and related measurements relevant to meteorologists and for the purpose of weather forecasting and climate research, but also to the practitioner...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-09
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This book provides insights into the benefits of using remote sensing data from a geoscientist's perspective, by integrating the data with the understanding of Earth's surface and subsurface. In 3 sections, the book takes a detailed look at what data explorationists use...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-11-03
Collection :
Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
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This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned.
The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-02
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This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran. It discusses the nature of Kurdish settlements and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-10-08
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This volume focuses on the development of field systems through time and space and in their wider landscape context, including classical issues pertaining to past land use and management regimes, including manuring, water, land and crop management, and technologies such...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-05
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This monograph is a fundamental study of watershed erosion and runoff processes. It utilizes decades of soil erosion data to take a comprehensive and balanced approach in covering various watershed erosion processes. While there are many works on soil erosion and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-29
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This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-29
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This book’s point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.e., the blind, the disabled), and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-28
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Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. This focus has been magnified by the need to consider tropical cyclones in the context of other global development agendas,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-28
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Joachim Rathmann presents the interdisciplinary relationships between landscapes and health. Nature is to be regarded as an elementary health resource, because movement in near-natural surroundings has demonstrably positive influences on human health and is summarized...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-26
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This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-23
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This book highlights the importance of outdoor thermal comfort for improving urban living quality in the context of urban planning and urban geometry design. It introduces readers to a range of assessment methods and applications of outdoor thermal comfort and addresses...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-16
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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
Parution :
2021-09-15
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-31
Collection :
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...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-08-31
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