Geography

This book discusses the potential of a systemic and multidisciplinary design approach to improve urban quality, health, livability, and inclusiveness for people living in informal settlements. In most instances, attempts to address informal settlements...

This book discusses the political and economic history and geography of Georgia, the problems it has faced, and how it has overcome and is still overcoming them. In most countries, at the end of the 20th century the successful resolution of...

The aim of the book is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges involved in geoinformatics' contribution to making transportation more intelligent, efficient and human-friendly. It covers a wide range of topics related to transportation...

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability. Rather than rely only on engineering structures to reduce flood magnitude or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241340650Author James A SharpFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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Cambridgeshire is rich in Jurassic fossils, with ichthyosaurs having been found at Mepal and Barrington since 2000, and ammonites and belemnites occurring near Grafham Water. In the later nineteenth century, Thomas Roberts, an assistant to the Professor...

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was one of the most renowned geologists of the nineteenth century. He was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1858 and the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1866 for his contributions to...

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240911318Author Forbes Edward WinslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639039573Author Navendu ChaudharyFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241522056Author Edouard BiotFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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The geologist Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) studied at Cambridge under Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873). In 1841, having already gained field experience in England and Newfoundland, he joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming four-year expedition...

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was one of the most renowned geologists of the nineteenth century. His Principles of Geology (also reissued in this series) laid the foundations of evolutionary biology, and greatly influenced Darwin. Lyell's most important...

Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes...

Thoroughly updated with material related to the GRASS6, the third edition includes new sections on attribute database management and SQL support, vector networks analysis, lidar data processing and new graphical user interfaces. All chapters were updated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240926886Author Carl Wilhelm PaijkullFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240920310Author John AikinFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241434632Author Robert Neff KeelyFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241246778Author William James DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Lidar or laser radar, the depth-resolved remote measurement of atmospheric parameters with optical means, has become an important tool in the field of atmospheric and environmental remote sensing. In this volume the latest progress in the development of...

This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that...

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Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and embankments. Unlike other major human impacts like anthropogenic climate change, the alteration of river systems has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241505127Author Thomas Woodbine HinchliffFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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With the launch of very high-resolution satellite sensors at the beginning of this decade (e.g. IKONOS, OrbView, QUICKBIRD) many important new remote se- ing applications have been developed. Major progress has been demonstrated in the accurate...

This is the first study of the karst areas of China to be carried out by a Western geomorphologist, and almost all the sources are from Chinese works, as yet unpublished in the West. Karst areas are sensitive to environmental influences and Chinese...

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge County Geographies were designed to provide a series of concise guides to British regions. Aimed at the general reader, they combined a comprehensive approach to various...

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge County Geographies were designed to provide a series of concise guides to British regions. Aimed at the general reader, they combined a comprehensive approach to various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659741777Author Ramamohana Rao PFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

CEOS was established under the auspices of the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations in 1984 in response to a recommendation from a panel of experts in remote sensing within the Working Group on Growth, Technology and Employment (CEOS, 2009). The...

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...

This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth's tropical region. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241521912Author George F R S S a ChalmersFormat PaperbackPage Count 952Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...