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100 delightful walks that reveal hidden treasures in our countryside – secret beaches, abandoned villages, mysterious caves, hidden waterfalls. Walks are 2-6 miles in length to maximise manageabili……続きを見る

This volume discusses and analyses the use of quantitative indicators to assess sustainability across sectors, with the goal of offering readers the tools to choose and validate indicators. Sustaina……続きを見る

This open access book provides insights into the novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format, which is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides a……続きを見る

Explore the beauty and awe of the heavens through the rich celestial prints and star atlases offered in this third edition book. The author traces the development of celestial cartography from ancie……続きを見る

Das Buch befasst sich mit der Architektur, dem Städtebau und der Stadtplanung im Freistaat Bayern aus interdisziplinärer, urbanistischer Sicht. Damit verbundene baukulturelle Partizipation kann zur ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The authors look through the lense……続きを見る

This book deals with every aspect of oceanography in detail including various aspects of physical, chemical, geological, and biological discourse. ‘Earth and Planetary Science’ is perhaps the oldest……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002: While world-wide political, sociological and economic processes encourage the marginalization of peripheral areas, the general degradation of the ecosystem in……続きを見る

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses o……続きを見る

Assesses latest research on how grasslands function Surveys best practice in sustainable grassland management Considers wider aspects of sustainability such as ecosystem services and biodiversity 続きを見る

"Keväisessä majavajahdissa on aivan oma tunnelmansa, jollaista ei tavoita missään muualla. Istuskella hiljaa puron varressa, kuunnella alkavan kevään ääniä, haistaa luonnon herääminen, tuntea kevään……続きを見る

This book presents recent advances in renewable energy scenarios for future Indian smart cities including technologies and devices at the scales of both experimental and theoretical models for Indus……続きを見る

Kuhmolainen Erkki Tuominen lähtee ystävineen ja koirineen Pohjois-Karjalan aitoihin erämetsiin nauttimaan luonnonrauhasta. Tervastulet lämmittävät tunnelmallisesti iltasella, ja päivällä kumppanukse……続きを見る

Miten metsästys muuttui 1950-luvulta tultaessa 2000-luvulle? Kuhmon metsät kuin omat taskunsa tunteva Erkki Tuominen piti päiväkirjaa retkistään ainakin viisi vuosikymmentä ja vangitsi samalla ainut……続きを見る

Kun eräretkeilijä Erkki Tuominen liikkuu syksyisellä luonnonsuojelualueella kotiseudullaan Kuhmossa, ruskalinnut piiloutuvat lehtikasoihin. Tuominen tuntee metsät kuin omat taskunsa mutta löytää sil……続きを見る

This book provides a detailed description of how Python can be used to give insight into the flow of groundwater based on analytic solutions. Starting with simple problems to illustrate the basic pr……続きを見る

In a case study of urban biodiversity, Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald present two decades of data and assessment of the habitats and biota of the Meadowlands. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural Histo……続きを見る

Forest ecosystems include a great variety of communities of organisms interacting with their physical environment: multi-aged natural forests, even-aged monocultures, and secondary forests invaded b……続きを見る

The present volume 'Geography and Environment: Issues and Challenges' is a festschrift in honour of Prof. S.L. Kayastha. It contains the contributions from the students, colleagues and admirers of P……続きを見る

Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-Ã -vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in res……続きを見る

This book focuses on the presentation and evaluation of geological maps of the Central Europe from 1750 up to 1840. Milestones in presentation of stratigraphy and tectonics and new geological models……続きを見る

This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and t……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geowissenschaften / Geographie, Note: 1,0, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Institut für Geographie und Geologie), Veranstaltung: ……続きを見る

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century’s opposing outlooks on cities. Howard envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch and com……続きを見る

This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy – the organization of humankind to support autonomous life – as a response to the problems of today’s purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a spec……続きを見る

During the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in issues of land reform in developing and transitional countries. This has been initiated by the large-scale re-distributive act……続きを見る

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and sugg……続きを見る

Originally published in 1993, Urban Land and Property Markets in the Netherlands provides a detailed explanation of how the land and property markets of the Netherlands work. This book describes the……続きを見る

First published in 1999, this volume begins with a panoramic survey by Nigel Harris of the drama of Asian Urbanization, based on the inaugural plenary lecture he gave to the 5th Asian Urbanization C……続きを見る

"Building Back Better" (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2009 Samoan Tsunami, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and ……続きを見る