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As the world grieves over the catastrophic loss of humanity from the 26 December 2004 tsunami, we must resolve to learn from nature’s lessons. This issue provides a framework and a set of tools to develop communities that are resilient to tsunami. This collection of...
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Springer
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2005-08-11
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It is being increasingly realised that water is likely to be one of the most critical resource issues for the first half of the twenty-first century. Accelerating demand for water for various uses and user groups and ineffective measures to address - ter quality decline...
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Springer
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2005-08-04
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In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyze climate change impacts on agriculture, water resources, unmanaged ecosystems, irrigation, and land use in the United States and the economic implications of these impacts. This book...
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Springer
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2005-08-03
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This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives...
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Oxford University Press
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2005-07-14
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Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, e.g. fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-06-30
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Over the last decade and particularly in recent years, the macroscopic porous media theory has made decisive progress concerning the fundamentals of the theory and the development of mathematical models in various fields of engineering and biomechanics. This progress...
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Springer
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2005-06-15
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A distinguished team of Western European scholars has written an advanced, full-length physical geography designed to be a state-of -the-art evaluation of the physical environment of Western Europe, being both retrospective and prospective in its perception of...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-05-19
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'...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up a productive theoretical and empirical space for further study and exploration' - RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
What is real about city life? Real...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-03-18
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This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.
In Geographies of Consumption Juliana Mansvelt...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-03-08
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The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia examines the complex mosaic of physical environments which comprise Southeast Asia, and the current environmental problems and management practices which have arisen in this part of the world.The book is in three sections.The...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-02-24
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Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity. - David M. Smith, Queen Mary,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2005-02-08
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Meeting the needs of upper level students, this book treats global environmental problems as complex issues with a network of human and biophysical causes. Each chapter interlinks human demands on the Earth's resources to natural biophysical change - not simply a...
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Wiley
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2005-01-28
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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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