Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book aims to further advance the field of reintroduction biology beyond the considerable progress made since the formation of the IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group.

This book aims to further advance the field of reintroduction biology beyond the considerable progress made since the formation of the IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group.

The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change.

The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change.

The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia.

Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management.

THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Even better than before, the Dictionary is an essential tool for all human geographers and over the years has provided an invaluable guide to the changing boundaries and content of the discipline.

Is the world running out of oil?

This set of exercises has been created expressly for students and teachers of conservation biology and wildlife management who want to have an impact beyond the classroom.

Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction is an overview of the diverse conceptual tools and traditions for thinking about, explaining and addressing the environmental challenges we face in the contemporary world.

Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud.

This book explores how mountainous landscapes respond to tectonic deformation.

Despite many successes in the field of conservation, species extinction rates continue to climb and wild areas and habitats continue to be lost.

The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law).

Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research Volume 2 Edited by Santos-Buelga, Escribano-Bailon and Lattanzio Plant phenolics are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of substances in plants.

Redundant Masculinities?

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.

A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

This original study explores the difference that space and spatiality make to the understanding of power.

This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy.

This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality.

After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance.

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s.

Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water supply, treatment, and water resource management.

Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India.

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization.

The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.

The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth.

Environmental issues are inherently interdisciplinary, and environmental academic programs increasingly use an interdisciplinary approach.

Since the advent of the mantle plume hypothesis in 1971, scientists have been faced with the problem that its predictions are not confirmed by observation.

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today.

GEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is highly dependent upon both the experience that can only be gained through doing fieldwork, and the collection of reliable data and appropriate samples in the field.

The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships between each of them.

This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists.

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will provide sufficient breadth and depth of understanding in each sub-section of hydrology.

INTRODUCTION TO Geochemistry This book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in geochemistry for undergraduate/ graduate students with at least an elementary-level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and mathematics.

INTRODUCTION TO Geochemistry This book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in geochemistry for undergraduate/ graduate students with at least an elementary-level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and mathematics.

Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science.

Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world.

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This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.

The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form.

Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents up-to-date assessments of past sea-level change, thoroughly explores all of the factors contributing to sea-level rise, and explores how sea-level extreme events might change.

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.