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  • Eco-History. an Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    D. Rotherham Ian / DRotherham Ian / Ian D. Rotherham / Ian DRotherham
    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that to conserve wildlife or ecology, and to heal the wounds of human impacts, we must understand our own history and how, over coun...
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    50,84 €

  • Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination
    HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into th...
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    112,73 €

  • Urban Living Space in China
    Jian Feng / Xueming Li / Yungang Liu
    This book discusses the evaluation of urban lifestyle, urban livability and human settlement environment from the perspective of interdisciplinarity. On this basis, it explores the living spaces and new forms of living spaces of different groups, and expands the scope of traditional urban living space research, especially highlighting the impact of the development of new techno...
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    261,81 €

  • Water Planning in Britain
    Dennis J. Parker / Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
    Originally published in 1980, this book provides a penetrating and scholarly analysis of the planning of water resources, based on 10 years’ of research into one of Britain’s most vital industries. ...
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    55,44 €

  • World Sea Fisheries
    Robert Morgan
    First published in 1956, World Sea Fisheries gives a general survey of the sea fisheries of the world. It assesses their relative importance at a time when the growing world population placed an increasing strain on food supplies. It examines the forces which mould the character of sea fisheries in any region. ...
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    56,52 €

  • Recreation Research and Planning
    Thomas L. Burton
    First published in 1970, Recreation Research and Planning brings together some of the pioneering work done in Britain in response to the problems that have arisen from the growth of mass recreation since 1955. It will be particularly useful for students and researchers of geography and planning. ...
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    55,54 €

  • The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
    The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology offers a state-of-the-art exploration of contemporary political ecology, grounded in the field’s radical foundations and its longstanding connections to political activism. ...
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    440,07 €

  • Mumbai by the Sea
    B. Arunachalam
    First published in 2004, Mumbai by the Sea delves into Mumbai’s rich maritime heritage, tracing its relationship with the surrounding seas since the Christian era. This book explores the city’s nostalgic maritime past, its crises, and its rise as the ’Queen of the Arabian Sea’. ...
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    180,18 €

  • Maritime Heritage of Southern Peninsular India
    B. Arunachalam
    First published in 2010, Maritime Heritage of Southern Peninsular India explores the region’s deep cultural ties to the sea, examining maritime skills, voyages, and traditions, alongside coastal communities’ folklore, festivals, and sea-centric daily life. ...
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    84,33 €

  • Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues with the Earth Sciences
    This book explores how Earth Sciences including Geosciences can be reimagined to serve people in a world increasingly shaped by planetary-scale anthropogenic change (PSAC), commonly referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’. The authors investigate traditional societal aspects of Earth Sciences, offering insights into how to recognize the mechanisms and emerging phase shifts that shape...
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    218,59 €

  • Whole Onflow
    Cameron Duff / Gavin J. Andrews / Keith Woodward
    This book describes ’whole onflow’ which is, at once, the emergence and becoming of the entirety of the world/universe and any actual, unique position whatsoever in it ’now’. ...
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    267,88 €

  • Whole Onflow
    Cameron Duff / Gavin J. Andrews / Keith Woodward
    This book describes ’whole onflow’ which is, at once, the emergence and becoming of the entirety of the world/universe and any actual, unique position whatsoever in it ’now’. ...
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    77,16 €

  • Soundscapes of Life
    Mike Edwards
    This book showcases the importance of the soundscape for understanding the environmental crises that we face. It is also about the lost art of listening. This is crucial if we are to start building deeper resonances between human and more-than-human worlds. ...
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    268,29 €

  • Soundscapes of Life
    Mike Edwards
    This book showcases the importance of the soundscape for understanding the environmental crises that we face. It is also about the lost art of listening. This is crucial if we are to start building deeper resonances between human and more-than-human worlds. ...
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    77,56 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies
    This handbook provides a path-breaking overview of the rapidly developing field of critical ocean studies. ...
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    436,95 €

  • The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning
    Brenda White
    First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it. ...
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    55,72 €

  • Water Resources in the Arid Realm
    Clive Agnew / Ewan Anderson
    Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple ’once and for all’ solutions. ...
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    55,20 €

  • Life Before the Drought
    Earl Scott
    Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment. ...
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    55,84 €

  • Social Intricacies of Coastal Communities in South India
    Kildos Anthony Pillai / S. Irudaya Rajan
    This book examines the social life of fishing communities in south India. It shows how modernization has brought changes to coastal communities in the post-Independence era. ...
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    267,12 €

  • Future Challenges of Cities in Asia
    The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. ...
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    82,46 €

  • The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
    This book examines Singapore through its imaginative representations, revealing a vital perceptual layer beyond physical structures and engineered spaces. ...
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    82,41 €

  • The Archaeological Studies of Chinese Palaces
    Hongxun Yang / Huizhong Bin / Jiajun Chu
    This book presents a systematic, authoritative, and in-depth exploration of the archaeological restoration and historical evolution of Chinese palace architecture, drawing on methodologies from archaeology, history, and architecture. It fills the gap left by the scarcity of architectural remains and research predating the Tang dynasty, reinforces the foundations of Chinese arch...
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    138,17 €

  • Religious Responses to Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Disasters
    Angus Duncan / David Chester / John Duncan
    This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world’s major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR). ...
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    75,90 €

  • Colonial Geographies, Tourist Imaginaries, and Mystical Landscapes
    Sophia Rose Arjana
    The first study to examine the intersection between imaginative geographies and mystical tourism, this book presents a detailed discussion of how tourism is linked to mystical experience, consumer products and wellness resorts. ...
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    63,32 €

  • Colonial Geographies, Tourist Imaginaries, and Mystical Landscapes
    Sophia Rose Arjana
    The first study to examine the intersection between imaginative geographies and mystical tourism, this book presents a detailed discussion of how tourism is linked to mystical experience, consumer products and wellness resorts. ...
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    267,56 €

  • Mapping Legalities
    This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which globally law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. ...
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    75,69 €

  • Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape
    George Joshua Orwel
    Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere. ...
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    76,45 €

  • Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization
    This book examines the progression of real estate development within the deindustrialization-financialization nexus. It explores the roles it has in semi-peripheral contexts such as Romania. ...
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    75,87 €

  • Regional Drift
    This book examines the Southern Indian Ocean corridor as a geographic, geological, and atmospheric space, taking a critical oceanic humanities approach while never losing sight of the land and water interface. ...
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    76,46 €

  • Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations
    E. C. H. Keskitalo
    This book builds a compelling critique of ’frontier thinking’ and demonstrates its pernicious amplification in contemporary human affairs. It will be of wide interest to a range of academics and students in the fields of geography, anthropology, environmental studies, sociology, political science and development studies, amongst others. ...
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    76,27 €