A 2025 Food Tank Winter Book List selectionA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
A 2025 Food Tank Winter Book List selectionA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
L'Asie est baignee par des espaces maritimes nombreux et divers qui sont exploites pour leurs ressources principalement halieutiques et minerales ; outre des detroits strategiques qui sont d'une importance vitale pour les echanges commerciaux, tout en etant des cibles pour les activites illicites - notamment la piraterie, le terrorisme, l'immobilisation et l'arraisonnement de navires.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches.
Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.
Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life in the universe.
Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life in the universe.
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.
Cet ouvrage est issu du troisieme colloque international du laboratoire Pole de Recherche et d'Expertise sur la Dynamique des Espaces et des Societes (PREDES) organise du 29 au 31 mai 2024 a l'Universite de Kara, au Togo.
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder.
This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisner's contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development and sustainability.
This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the diverse applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in land and ocean mapping and surveying across different fields and regions, bringing forward the best practices and innovations happening worldwide.
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in low quality employment, among other damaging results.
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist eine tiefgreifende Veränderung der gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Landschaft in Deutschland zu beobachten, die sich unter anderem auch auf die Wahrnehmung und Nutzung von Kirchengebäuden auswirkt.
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist eine tiefgreifende Veränderung der gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Landschaft in Deutschland zu beobachten, die sich unter anderem auch auf die Wahrnehmung und Nutzung von Kirchengebäuden auswirkt.
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cultural experiences of African and African-descended peoples, from ancient times to the present.
This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.
This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems (SGPSs) in Latin America, with analysis and comparison across 10 different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
La guía para el procesamiento de series de tiempo de precipitación y temperatura: estimación de datos faltantes, detección de cambios y homogenización, describe las etapas para realizar el proceso de homogenización de series de tiempo mensuales, contribuyendo a evaluar la calidad de los datos y favoreciendo el desarrollo de estudios climatológicos.
This book highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world and underscores the need to acknowledge and honour the ways that indigenous peoples have done for generations.
This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.
This book focuses on urban redevelopment and neighborhood gentrification in three global contexts: New York City (USA), London (UK) and Seoul (South Korea).
This book focuses on various scientific methodologies and policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green land management to the sustainable development of resources.
This comprehensive handbook presents the current state of knowledge on geospatial technologies, techniques, and methods that are imperative for providing solutions to sustainable cities.
This book provides a powerful picture of the significance and centrality of islands in the Indo-Pacific region in the 21st century, far from an easily assumed benign peripherality and invisibility.
This book provides a useful framework for addressing the various aspects of current Asia-Europe relations, including examinations of power transitions and geopolitics, values, and pragmatism, climate change and sustainability, technology and innovation, and infrastructure and connectivity.
This book focuses on urban redevelopment and neighborhood gentrification in three global contexts: New York City (USA), London (UK) and Seoul (South Korea).
This book focuses on various scientific methodologies and policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green land management to the sustainable development of resources.
