From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries.
Bevor die Corona-Pandemie zu Beginn des Jahres fast alle Länder rund um den Erdball paralysierte, feierte die Weltgemeinschaft das "Greta-Jahr": Die schwedische Jugendliche hatte nicht nur die Fridays for Future ins Leben gerufen und damit den Beginn einer Klimaschutzdemonstrationswelle losgetreten, die für die Politik nicht mehr zu ignorieren war, sie wurde auch zur gefeierten Rednerin auf allen Wirtschafts- und Politikgipfeln, zur Ikone, die den politischen Weltmächten gegenüber trat.
Esta historia tiene como protagonista a un perro llamado Buck que en el otoño de 1894, cuando el descubrimiento de los yacimientos auríferos de Klondike arrastra hacia los hielos de Alaska a hombres de todas partes del globo, Buck es productivamente vendido y enviado al Norte.
En este ensayo sorprendente, Timothy Morton aborda la cuestión de lo humano, su esencia, sus límites y diferencias respecto de los animales, los objetos y el mundo en general.
Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.
Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Paris: An den unterschiedlichsten Orten der Erde kommt die Weltgemeinschaft regelmäßig zu den UN-Klimagipfeln zusammen – und entscheidet an deren Ende meist mit viel Mühe und nur unter Zähneknirschen eine schmale Protokollerklärung als kleinsten gemeinsamen und völkerrechtlich nur mittelbar bindenden Nenner.
Wie wird sich Erzählen, werden sich Geschichten verändern, wenn sich Oberflächen, Naturereignisse, Jahreszeiten und damit menschliche Sinneserfahrungen verändern?
Planning is at the heart of the response to many of the significant challenges of our time, from the climate and environmental crises to social and economic inequalities.
La intención de esta guía de campo de El Monte, es facilitar la identificación de las especies vegetales, que aunque basando la investigación en el área del Bloque Exhumado de San Rafael, es aplicable al Territorio o Provincia Fitogeográfica, que se extiende desde parte sur del Noroeste argentino hasta la Provincia de Mendoza y tuerce su dirección hacia el Océano Atlántico, donde llega hasta la Península de Valdés.
Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record-to give the history, "e;from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley,"e; of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most exciting episodes in the history of human enterprise.
Although numerous volumes have been written upon petroleum, and some very educational works on this important subject are to be found in technological literature, it is strange that prior to the appearance of this little book, it has been impossible to turn to any publication which deals with this Common Commodity of Commerce in a popular manner.
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.
London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.