Geography

This book offers a visual journey through the history of North America via a series of engaging, detailed maps, explaining key events and eras from prehistory to the 21st century.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Vorstellungen des Altertums von der Erdumfangslänge" verfügbar.

This multi- and interdisciplinary book will offer novel environmental history (EH) research on Dinaric Karst, one of European largest continuous karstic areas, from prehistory to contemporary history.

This multi- and interdisciplinary book will offer novel environmental history (EH) research on Dinaric Karst, one of European largest continuous karstic areas, from prehistory to contemporary history.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

This book focuses on information seeking and the knowledge economy for teaching and research in Africa.

Implement Your Own Applications Using Online GISAn in-depth study detailing the online applications of geographic information systems (GIS), Online GIS and Spatial Metadata, Second Edition outlines how GIS data are published, organized, accessed, searched, maintained, purchased, and processed over the web.

Depuis quelques décennies, il est frappant de constater, tant au Sud qu’au Nord de la planète, que, tandis que des États unitaires se décentralisent (France, Colombie, Espagne), la tendance générale au sein de la majorité des fédérations est plutôt celle d’une centralisation croissante (États-Unis, Mexique, Inde).

Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery.

This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales.

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.

Derived from presentations made at the fourth annual UK National Conference on GIS Research, this work consists of contributions by leading experts in: geography, mathematics, computing science, surveying, archaeology, planning and medicine.

This work addresses the whole range of problems relating to the application of satellite technology to studies of regional seas and sea phenomona - the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshia Current - and coastal zones.

Creating Freshwater Wetlands, Second Edition clearly demonstrates the step-by-step processes required to restore or create freshwater wetlands.

There is an affirming transformation, basically in the form of core methodology, in recent geomorphological studies.

Although lunar exploration began in the 1960s, the moon and other planets have many long-standing, unanswered questions about planetary environments, origin, formation and evolution, magnetization of crustal rocks, internal structure, and possible life.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Albrecht Penck, eine Gedächtnisrede" verfügbar.

This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences.

There are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how did we arrive at the current distribution of humans on the planet?

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

Geocomputation with Python is a comprehensive resource for working with geographic data with the most popular programming language in the world.

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.

Discover the existential threats facing 50 unique places across the globe and the possible solutions that may save them from vanishing forever.

Volume III of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing.

Offering a concise overview of Ho Chi Minh Citys history and development, the Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City presents a comprehensive historical survey of the city by means of an alphabetical list of keywords and names, with accompanying definitions.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries.

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

The term 'relocation cost' has been coined by Philip Curtin to refer to the increased mortality associated with the migration of people from their childhood disease environments to new ones.

Leaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites.

Interest in the environment has never been greater, yet how much do each of us understand and engage with it?

It is true that everyone has his or her own story of life to tell, but some have far more fascinating stories than others.

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy.

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy.