Télécharger le livre :  Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Contemporary Cities
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The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena. Unlike similar books, it does not discuss exclusion and inclusion in particular geographical contexts, but instead...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-11
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Planning for Resilience
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Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens. Chapters look at...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-04-06
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Green Spaces
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This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health. In this regard, the book highlights how ecosystem services provided by green spaces affect multiple aspects of human health and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Flood Preparedness
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The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding. It is based on original research carried out in twelve areas in southern Poland that suffered serious flood damage in the past thirty years.The underlying research...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Contested Energy Spaces
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This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context of indigenous communities that have allowed industrial developments to occur on their lands despite the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Perspectives to Postglacial Uplift
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This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower Satakunta, Finland; this region is known for its rich cultural...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Cities and Mega-Cities
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This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them. In nine chapters, the book focuses on rehabilitation and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Will Miami Survive?
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This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA. It focuses on how the modern financial system, particularly the mortgage market, perceives and manages the risk of climate change. Authors Kathleen Sealey,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ghost Cities of Australia
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This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards
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This book provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the degradation and deterioration of the cultural record encompassed by urban headstones located in parish churchyards. Its interdisciplinary approach allows the geomorphological analysis of rock weathering to be...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities
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This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between “healthy cities” and “urban planning”, examining various best practices in Europe. It uses the above as a starting point and investigates different aspects of healthy cities, examining various best...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis
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This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Ground-penetrating Radar and Magnetometry for Buried Landscape Analysis
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This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried archaeological landscapes. Ground-penetrating radar can be used to identify buried living surfaces, geological...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Azerbaijan
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This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan. A new methodology for child centered vulnerability assessments both on school and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-10-31
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptation to Coastal Storms in Atlantic Canada
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This brief is based on an analysis that was performed on the 2010 winter storms that caused considerable damage to coastal communities in Atlantic Canada. The hazards that occurred were associated with storm surge, high waves, coastal erosion, and flooding. The analysis...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies
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This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role. Accordingly, the first part offers a short overview of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Rural Sustainability
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This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy
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This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-03-30
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecological Liberation Theology
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 Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples’ lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities. This book looks at local-level responses to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-02-15
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Télécharger le livre :  Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California
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The book analyzes the problems and potential of renewable energy development for the Coachella Valley of California and provides a useful case study for renewable energy feasibility assessments for other areas. A conceptual model, Integrated Policy Assessment Theory for...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-02-07
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Geography
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