This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.
Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.
Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.
Scotland's economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British politics since.
Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers' struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries.
This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America.
Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics.
As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge.
This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century.
Vive les crises migratoires… car rien ne vaut le détour par les pays en voie de peuplement pour prendre conscience de l'extrême pauvreté conceptuelle de la théorie économique dite orthodoxe, qui est à la fois désincarnée, u-topique, uchronique et démostatique.
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans.
This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography-literally, "e;writing about the earth.
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans.
Le bassin du Guir marocain, région frontalière périphérique, est de plus en plus marginalisé dans un contexte défavorable au maintien des populations, accélérant la dégradation des oasis.
La gestion des zones littorales du Cap Bon pose des défis dans différents établissements : difficultés d'établissement d'autorités, des lieux d'influences caractérisés par un engouement socio-économique, changements de pouvoir politique, etc.
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change.
Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China's rural development.
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change.
In Africa, the Sahel region polarizes a lot of attention from the international community because of its rich potential, which is in stark contrast to its fragile and worsening security situation - all against the backdrop of a powerful demographic dynamic marked by a considerable proportion of young people.
Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics.
Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China's rural development.
This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.
This book introduces the use of various remote sensing data such as microwave, hyperspectral and very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery; mapping techniques including pixel and object-based machine learning; and geostatistical modelling techniques including cellular automation, entropy and land fragmentation.
This book introduces the use of various remote sensing data such as microwave, hyperspectral and very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery; mapping techniques including pixel and object-based machine learning; and geostatistical modelling techniques including cellular automation, entropy and land fragmentation.
Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China.
This book provides an avenue for students to explore the Nile-the world's longest river-and better understand its larger role in society in the past, present, and future.
Written by leading experts in African studies, this broad introduction to Nigeria follows the history of the republic from the early period to the present day.
Grail Quests often begin withwhat seems like normal travel adventures, but then suddenly turn into divinesynchronistic events that makes one feel as though theyre being guided by the Universe.
In a world where most international trade is carried by sea, each port can be seen as a unique chokepoint competing to attract ever more traffic and economic activities.
