Geography

Auf der Suche nach einer Erklärung für die Niederlage im Ersten Weltkrieg, die sie selbst möglichst wenig belastete, entwickelten fiihrende Militärs eine Kriegstheorie, die der Zivilbevölkerung eine entscheidende Rolle im Kriegsgeschehen zuschrieb und diese deshalb auch mit für den Kriegsausgang verantwortlich machen konnte.

Es bedarf einer Rechtfertigung, wenn der Vertreter einer empirischen Wissenschaft, dessen Aufgabe es ist, das Wesen und den Wert der Länder im irdischen Wirkungs gefüge zu erforschen und darzustellen, sich an­ schickt, über einen Gegenstand zu sprechen, den es noch nicht gibt und von dem im Augenblick nicht mit Sicherheit zu sagen ist, ob es ihn in einem überschaubaren Zeitraum geben wird, und ob die Parlamente von Frank­ reich und dem Vereinigten Königreich den Vorlagen ihrer Regierungen zustimmen werden, die sie zur positiven Entscheidung vorbereitet haben: einen Tunnel zwischen Dover und Calais zu bauen.

Ein Buro wie das vorliegende, das nicht aus Literaturstudium, sondern aus unzähligen Gesprächen erwachsen ist, die siro über fast zwei Jahr­ zehnte hingezogen haben, muß mit einer Danksagung an alle Mitredner beginnen, weil es ohne sie nie entstanden wäre.

This book delves deep into the complex relationship between forest fires and climate change by thoroughly exploring the scientific foundations, ecological consequences, and global implications of forest fires in the climate change scenario.

This book explores the portrayal of refugee experiences in children’s picture books using insights from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

This book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a particular focus on agriculture and food practices.

This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, including trans-/intergenerational trauma.

What would our lives look like if there were no (good) maps?

"e;Because the development of the carbon economy has always been closely bound up with the deepening of human inequalities, movements seeking climate justice need to unravel a tangle of social injustices at all scales.

This book covers Martian Aeolian Geomorphology and is organized around three main foci.

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts in the field of Wood Science & Fire.

The first book in the series provides the concept of a theoretical redefinition of 'horizontal geographies'.

This comprehensive book examines a high mountain snow-covered expanse, spanning an investigation period of almost two decades.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This book explores journeys in a time context with a focus on places, place meanings, and landscapes.

Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture is a guide to innovative architectural design for architects, engineers and other specialists who are working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts.

Grassland covers 26% of the world's total land area.

Anti-personnel Landmine Detection for Humanitarian Demining reports on state-of-the-art technologies developed during a Japanese National Research Project (2002-2007).

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from government agencies, industry and the general public.

The applications of image-based measurement are many and various: image-guided surgery, mobile-robot navigation, component alignment and photogrammetry, among others.

This book uses sociolinguistic approaches to explore how media discourse on undocumented migration informs Morocco-Spain political relations.

This book elucidates findings from an anthropological study that analyzes the patterns of Taiwan's Atayal tribe’s fabric in their ethnic dress codes.

This book addresses the ongoing need to explore the implications of the ‘Anthropocene’ rupture for the field of International Relations (IR).

With cities and regions moving away from fossil-nuclear energy sources, the importance of energy-ecological urban transformation is growing.

Marine biorefineries of macroalgal (seaweed) feedstock are sustainable sources of food, materials, and energy, and can alleviate the growing pressure on land and freshwater resources.

This contributed volume assesses the state and future of India's East Coast through a wide variety of chapters grouped by methodology and approach.

Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches.

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now.

He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels.

This book addresses the ongoing need to explore the implications of the ‘Anthropocene’ rupture for the field of International Relations (IR).

This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study.

This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, including trans-/intergenerational trauma.