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  • When the Earth Roars
    Gregory Smits
    Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advances in earthquake-related safety technologies, the destructiveness of the magnitude 9 class earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on 3/11 raised profound questions about how societies can deal effectively with seismic hazard...
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    149,94 €

  • The New Urban Question
    Andy Merrifield
    The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann’s attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifie...
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    31,91 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan
    This book approaches the study of the environment from two academic disciplines: both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The book examines the differences between 'sustainability' and 'thrivability.' Such topics as the sixth mass extinction (now underway), fracking, plastics, food waste and d...
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    47,11 €

  • Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia
    James Minahan
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    142,39 €

  • Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans
    J Donald Hughes
    In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas subject to their influences, Hughes offers a ...
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    41,85 €

  • Kano
    Kano: Environment, Society and Development is a collection of research works on Kano and its environs. Though largely a rural economy, the region is known for its huge population, extensive landmass and abundant natural resources. As a richly endowed part of Nigeria, it is not surprising that it has attracted several scholarly studies on its physical and human environments, inc...
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    46,64 €

  • The Interactions of Human Mobility and Farming Systems on Biodiversity and Soil Quality in the Western Highlands of Cameroon
    Christopher Mubeteneh Tankou
    Population growth and the drop in the returns from the major cash crop (coffee) for small farmers are the main drivers that have influenced the farming systems and mobility of farmers in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. The main objective of the research that led to this book was to determine the interactions between farming systems and human mobility in this region of Camero...
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    43,60 €

  • The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism
    Emma Waterton / Steve Watson
    This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs and symbols, and how we use them to make sense of the world. Here semiotics is extended into our other senses as part of what it means to experience heritage as tourists. ...
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    42,32 €

  • Sacred Landscape
    Bob Mander
    Bob Mander was born in 1939. He considered himself fortunate to be educated at Birkenhead School and afterwards at Southampton University where he studied for a B.A. Honours degree in Geography with ancillary History. His main interest was in geomorphology, the structure and formation of the landscape features of the earth. After an education course, he took up a career in t...
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    25,65 €

  • Sacred Landscape
    Bob Mander
    Bob Mander was born in 1939. He considered himself fortunate to be educated at Birkenhead School and afterwards at Southampton University where he studied for a B.A. Honours degree in Geography with ancillary History. His main interest was in geomorphology, the structure and formation of the landscape features of the earth. After an education course, he took up a career in teac...
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    31,34 €

  • Africa’s Urban Revolution
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult t...
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    39,18 €

  • Geographies of Dance
    This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban planners and examines how dance uses, transforms and gives meaning to the everyday spaces we inhabit. ...
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    156,71 €

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology
    E. N. Anderson / ENAnderson / Mark Q. Sutton / Mark QSutton
    Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships. ...
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    78,14 €

  • Cities of North America
    Lisa Benton-Short
    This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns—including the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, manufacturing, increased social polarization and...
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    123,16 €

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology
    E. N. Anderson / ENAndersen / ENAnderson / Mark Q. Sutton / Mark QSutton
    Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships. ...
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    191,60 €

  • Private Anti-Piracy Navies
    John J. Jr. Pitney / John J. Pitney / John JJrPitney / John Pitney / John-Clark Levin
    Private Anti-Piracy Navies assesses the historical context, current state, and future prospects of privatizing maritime security vessels. It places particular emphasis on the economic, legal, and operational dimensions of this growing sector, and addresses issues of key interest to industry, government, and academia. ...
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    148,28 €

  • Explaining Culture
    Loren Demerath
    This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of globalization to the global south. It examines how a Least Developed Country is dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to neo-liberalization. ...
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    132,26 €

  • Anciens peuplements littoraux et relations Homme/Milieu sur les côtes de l’Europe Atlantique/Ancient Maritime Communities and the Relationship between People and the Environment along the European Atl
    Edited by Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry, Cyrille Billard, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Lespez, Eric Normand and Chris Scarre with the collaboration of Francis Bertin, Chloé Martin and Kate SharpeThis book presents the proceedings of the International conference 'HOMER 2011' (Ancient maritime communities and the relationship between people and environment ...
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    239,20 €

  • Border Encounters
    Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a l...
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    184,02 €

  • Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar
    Akbar Keshodkar
    Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar examines how Zanzibaris are struggling to move through the local landscape in the post-socialist era dominated by tourism. Using the theoretical framework of movement, this book highlights how Zanzibaris move and develop various dispositions to re-articulate their identities. This book also investigates how notions of ustaara...
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    131,87 €

  • Beyond Alternative Food Networks
    Cristina Grasseni
    Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer’s markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarit...
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    193,61 €

  • Technology versus Ecology
    Robert A. Schultz / Robert ASchultz / Stanley Ed Schultz / Stanley EdSchultz
    Although human beings are technically part of the ecosystem, there still remains a conceptual conflict between technology and nature. These concerns highlight the idea of human superiority in which the priority is given to technology versus living in synchronization with nature. Technology versus Ecology: Human Superiority and the Ongoing Conflict with Nature explores the issue...
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    216,67 €

  • Special Interest Society
    James R. Hudson / James RHudson
    Membership-based organizations play a central role in our society yet those studying voluntary associations fail to recognize their distinctive characteristics as their impact is profound and our understanding of them severely limited. By analyzing over 400 published histories, this book breaks new ground revealing why they emerge, what they do to shape nearly every profession,...
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    148,26 €

  • The Social Life of Water. Edited by John R. Wagner
    John R. Jr. Wagner / John RJrWagner
    Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with w...
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    183,90 €

  • Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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    42,76 €

  • Koreans in North America
    Koreans in North America covers various topics related to Korean experiences in the U.S. and Canada, including their immigration and settlement patterns, changes in business patterns, and identity, comprehensively. It also focuses on Korean Americans’ twenty-first century experiences, using both quantitative and qualitative data. ...
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    63,94 €

  • The Struggle for Eden
    Malve Von Hassell
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    121,85 €

  • Globalization and the Environment
    Peter Christoff / Robyn Eckersley
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley disentangle and clarify the relationship between the processes of modernization, globalization, and global environmental change. Through a rich set of case studies, i...
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    47,20 €

  • Globalization and the Environment
    Peter Christoff / Robyn Eckersley
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley disentangle and clarify the relationship between the processes of modernization, globalization, and global environmental change. Through a rich set of case studies, i...
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    141,46 €


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