Emerging Issues in Internal Displacement in Africa

This book focuses on emerging issues related to internal displacement in Africa. The six principal issues discussed are climate change, technology, xenophobia, harmful practices, generalized violence and development projects. Increasingly, the need to understand the root causes of the dimensions of internal displacement and the dimensions in which this displacement manifests have become a perti…

Conflicts over Marine and Coastal Common Resources; Causes, Governance and Pr…

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them. Despite the emergence of various marine and coastal governance approaches to address the effects of human activities within the marine environment, conflict continues. In this book, the author outlines the reasons conflicts can, and do, arise in the mar…

Governing the Anthropocene

This book focuses on the present and future challenges of managing ecosystem transformation on a planet where human impacts are pervasive. In this new epoch, the Anthropocene, the already rapid rate of species loss is amplified by climate change and other stress factors, causing transformation of highly-valued landscapes. Many locations are already transforming into novel ecosystems, where new …

Geographies of Mediterranean Europe

This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent decades. This thematically arranged book takes into account the national differences of the authors, but also highlights the main co…

Tree Crops

This book paints a wide canvas of the immense global economic potential of ten most important cash generating crops spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely, Arecanut, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Cinchona, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Oil Palm, Rubber and Wattle. It provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of the status of these crops, from seed to dining table, an invaluable treatise on the…

Depopulation, Aging, and Living Environments

This book provides perspectives on depopulated areas and regional social capital from positivistic field surveys. Among the developed countries of the world, Japan has a very small amount of national land, with almost 70% of it being in mountainous locations. Concentration of populations and economic capital into large metropolitan areas along with many depopulated and population-aged regions i…

A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development

This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a nexus approach can help in achieving the respective Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides conceptual considerations but mainly practical examples on how to implement a nexus approach in cities and multifunctional land-use systems to increase resource use efficiency and develop a low carbon economy. Afte…

Sustainable Bioeconomy

Sustainable development is the most important challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. The global economic growth in the recent past has indeed exhibited marked progress in many countries. Nevertheless, the issues of income disparity, poverty, gender gaps, and malnutrition are not uncommon in the global landscape, in spite of the upward growth of the economy and technological advances. Th…

Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to…

This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today’s Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region. It focuses its attention on the recent efforts of the Nordic community to create specialized Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research in order to facilitate this process of scien…

Supply Chain Management of Tourism Towards Sustainability

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries. The book describes the current state of the tourism industry in Asia from a perspective of sustainability, and analyzes the trade-offs between the three pillars of sustainability (environment, society, economy) as they pertain to the implementation of sust…

Bifurcation Theory for Hexagonal Agglomeration in Economic Geography

This book contributes to an understanding of how bifurcation theory adapts to the analysis of economic geography. It is easily accessible not only to mathematicians and economists, but also to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in nonlinear mathematics. The self-organization of hexagonal agglomeration patterns of industrial regions was first predicted by the cent…

Writing Worlds : Discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape

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0-415-05499-0

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xii, 118 p.; 23 cm.

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910.014 Wri w

THE PROGRESS OF UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS

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x, 297 p. ; 23 cm

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330.91 Hos p 1952

The Global Positioning System and GIS An Introduction

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xxiii, 268p. 25 cm

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910 Ken t

Pemetaan Kontur dan Pemodelan Spasial 3 Dimensi Menggunakan Surfer

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1

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979-731-710-2

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x, 214 hlm., : ilus. ; tab. ; 23 cm

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-

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912.09 Bud p

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings: Volume I

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC2014, held on 21-23 May in Nanjing, China. The theme of CSNC2014 is 'BDS Application: Innovation, Integration and Sharing'. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou System (BDS) es…

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings: Volume II

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC2014, held on 21-23 May in Nanjing, China. The theme of CSNC2014 is 'BDS Application: Innovation, Integration and Sharing'. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou System (BDS) es…

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 22 : The Interdisciplinary Role of Space Geodesy

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3-540-51161-X

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xv, 300 p.

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550 Lec l

Essentials of WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, Second Edition

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2nd

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978-0-07-336933-4

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xvii, 381 p.; 27 cm

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910 Whi e

Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, …

The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012. Written by experts in their respective fields, the contributions are organized into five parts: Part I Invited Lectures, consisting of full-length technical papers on both computational and experimental fluid mechanic…

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

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330 Eco e

THE GOLD COAST IN TRANSITION

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Geography Photomasters: Towns and Cities

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0-7501-0036-2

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33 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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909.097 Coo g

The Nature of the Environment, Second Edition

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2nd

ISBN/ISSN

0-631-10128-7

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xii, 370 p., : ill. ; map. ; tab. ; 25 cm.

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910.02 Gou n

GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND CIVICS STANDART SEVEN

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176 p.; ill.; 23 cm.

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910 Orc g

1000 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GEOGRAPHY

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1-902947-73-8

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[64] hlm. : ilus. ; 30 cm.

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910 Far t

FROMMER'S COMPREHENSIVE TRAVEL GUIDE LOS ANGELES 93-94

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0-671-84702-3

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ix, 230 p. ; 20 cm

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910.202 Lev f 1993

FROMMERS COMPREHENSIVE TRAVEL GUIDE; ACAPULCO, IXTAPA & TAXCO 93-94

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0-671-84660-4

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viii, 240 p. ; 23 cm

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910.202 Ada f 1993

The Human Mosaic; A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography Fifth Edition

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5

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0-06-043481-3

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xv, 496 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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900 Jor h 1990

PREHISTORIC INDONESIA: A READER

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ISBN/ISSN

90-6765-058-7

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viii, 404 p., : ill.; map.; 24 cm.

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913.031 598 vel p