D.P - Geography 1

« La gloire civilisatrice, la gloire de la France nouvelle qui ira sur ces rivages créer un pays nouveau, un pays africain et français ; voilà ce que nous chercherons, avec la paix quand la guerre n……続きを見る

Du 6 au 13 août 1896. La respiration à la surface après la longue, longue nage sous les eaux troubles de la sociale existence. Les vacances ! Les vêtements enlevés et jetés à la volée pour courir nu……続きを見る

As water's significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate……続きを見る

How does your cell phone know where you are right now? How is our planet changing due to geodynamic processes and ongoing climate change? How can these changes be precisely measured from space in or……続きを見る

Dix des plus grandes villes du monde sont au bord de la mer. La moitié de la population des pays industrialisés vit à moins d’un kilomètre du rivage : si longtemps territoires du vide, les littoraux……続きを見る

Now in its third edition, Disaster Recovery continues to serve as the most comprehensive book of its kind and will span the core areas that recovery managers and voluntary organizations must tackle ……続きを見る

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geog……続きを見る

First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-Europe……続きを見る

First Published in 2004. Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have ……続きを見る

A major concern of this book is how ordinary people might come to manage their own environment more effectively. A valuable resource for students of environmental studies, it considers how this migh……続きを見る

Modern Environmentalism presents a comprehensive introduction to environmentalism, the origins of its main beliefs and ideas, and how these relate to modern environmental ideologies. Providing a his……続きを見る

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, g……続きを見る

Borders in Service traces the intersection of service labour and national identity across global call centres in seven countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mauritius, Morocco, the Philippines,……続きを見る

A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Haz……続きを見る

Western Europe provides a balanced appraisal of common characteristics and shared problems of the eighteen states lying to the west of the former Iron Curtain. 続きを見る

This book examines the relationship between urban migrant movements, struggles and digitality which transforms public space and generates mobile commons. The authors explore heterogeneous digital fo……続きを見る

What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists in……続きを見る

This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and h……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainabili……続きを見る

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Verkehrswissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität München, Veranstaltung: Verkehrstechnik/-planung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Bacherlorarb……続きを見る

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Flooding has always threatened the rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming more frequent and more severe. Combining travel writing and rep……続きを見る

This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view ……続きを見る

This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the potentially awkward subject of culture in a direct, non-intimidating style. It prepares all health professionals in any clinical setting to conduct thorou……続きを見る

A definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the essentials to better understand and manage disasters. The third edition of this popular text has bee……続きを見る

Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural geogr……続きを見る

Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world. From Wetlands International comes Water Lands, a beautifully illustrated book about thi……続きを見る

Woher weiß Ihr Handy, wo Sie gerade unterwegs sind? Wie verändert sich unser Planet aufgrund von geodynamischen Prozessen und dem fortschreitenden Klimawandel? Wie können diese Veränderungen präzise……続きを見る

"A highly readable and superbly fun guide to the why and how of doing fieldwork in human geography... I recommend it highly to any geographer-wannabes and practicing-geographers. The latter group, i……続きを見る

Marine biogeography, the study of the spatial distribution of organisms in the world’s oceans, is one of the most fascinating branches of oceanography. This book continues the pioneering research in……続きを見る

This SpringerBrief brings together a series of studies that delve into the details of French and Israeli green building practices and tell a tale of two countries which deviates considerably from wh……続きを見る