Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Edition Axel Menges Tokyo: A Metropolis as a Self Organizing System
Book SynopsisCities are often seen as symbols of order: the existence of city walls, fortified gates, palaces, temples, roads, pavements, highways, public institutions, city centers and residential areas is interpreted as indicating the existence of a central authority that plans and controls the city. On the other hand, the very same cities are also seen as symbols of chaos, disorder and spontaneous growth. The little winding streets and alleys, the mixture of physical structures, styles and human activities have often given the impression that cities, like forests, and other natural entities are organic structures - strange, natural artefacts. Tokyo is a good example for this dual nature of cities. When you first encounter it, you get the impression of chaos: old buildings with one or two storeys next to 30-, 40- or 50-storey skyscrapers; pedestrians, cars, trains moving in all directions, each with its own trajectory and so on. But then you realise that this seemingly chaotic structure provides a context for perfectly ordered human activities: trains leave and arrive as timetabled, their doors open at the exact points that are marked with yellow lines on the platforms, every morning after midnight fishermen bring their catch to Tokyo's big fish market, auctions are held, and by six o'clock in the morning this huge amount of sea food has already been distributed among thousands of restaurants all over the city. And if you look deeper you learn that the chaotic face of Tokyo is the pre-condition for its ordered and organised life. Complexity theory or self-organisation theory are umbrella terms for a set of theories that study the interplay between chaos and order. Originating in the sciences, these theories have been applied to the study of cities in the last three decades. They show that as in natural systems, in the artificial systems that we call cities, chaos and order do not stand in opposition to each other. Rather, they coexist in an ongoing interplay of circular causality: chaos is the precondition for new urban orders to emerge and then to reproduce themselves, whereas order and organisation set the boundaries within which chaotic structures and behaviours can take place.
£22.41
speleo-photo editions New Zealand Karst: A voyage across limestone
Book SynopsisKarstified landscapes are among the most bizarre on our planet -- both above and below ground. This book takes you on a visual journey across sublime karst scenery and into the subterranean wilderness of New Zealand caves. Accompanied by popular scientific texts, stunning images lead you from the sculptured limestone pavements of the alpine marble karst to the grassland and jungle karst of the foothills, onwards into the twilight zone and deeper into the caves. It explores the diversity of peculiar features and creatures of the underground, ventures back into the light of cave ruins, and concludes with karst-related Māori rock art. Learn about the life cycle of the endemic glowworm and the critically endangered Nelson cave spider. Explore the majesty of cave minerals forming speleothems of all types. Discover the many roles water plays in shaping karst and understand the vulnerability of these geotopes and biotopes. New Zealand Karst reveals how you can appreciate karst as a phenomenon where geological, biological, and archaeological beauty all come together in harmony.
£44.79
Union Publishing Co., Ltd. Wanderlust
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£40.50
Kopernik Inc. This is TÜRKİYE: Sub Title On The Verge of Energy
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£22.09
Vitasta Publishing A Few Good Men And The Angry Sea
Book SynopsisWhile it focuses on the 2004 tsunami, the book resonates powerfully in todayâs worldâone increasingly ravaged by climate change-induced calamities. From cyclones to floods, the echoes of 2004 remind us that natureâs fury remains ever-present.
£15.99
Asian Educational Services Conservation Manual
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£8.50
New Age International Pvt Ltd Publishers Earthquakes Geography and Management
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£14.99
New Age International Pvt Ltd Publishers Environmental Biotechnology
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£7.19
CBS Publishers & Distributors Principles Of Gemorphology
Book SynopsisThe contents of book have been arranged in an alphabetic manner to ease the process of the retrieval of relevant information. This is a comprehensive book of reason- able size and I hope that it will satisfy the readers.
£19.51
D.K. Print World Ltd Life Style and Ecology
Book SynopsisIGNCA conducts 'Pilot Studies' on Himalayan nomads, Lakshadweep islanders, and Kanyakumari fisherfolk to explore culture-ecology links. Book by Baidyanath Saraswati delves into communities' ties to nature, cultural beliefs, and resource management.
£999.99
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Management of Resources for Sustainable
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£8.92
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Geography
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£17.25
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Asset Structure and Saving Behaviour of
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£14.99
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Himalayan Environment Conservation
Book SynopsisThe Himalayan mountains, known for their rich biodiversity, are facing severe damage due to human exploitation. A book aims to raise awareness about environmental threats, suggest solutions, and appeal to various experts and stakeholders for conservation efforts.
£18.74
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Rural Development and Village Democracy
Book SynopsisThe 3rd consitutional amendment in 1993 for the first time provided a statutory imperative for the establishment of Gram Sabhas in rural India. The 3rd consitutional amendment in 1993 for the first time provided a statutory imperative for the establishment of Gram Sabhas in rural India.
£999.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A Planet in Peril
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£13.49
Cosmo Publications Cosmo Dictionary of Ecology
Book SynopsisText summarizes the inclusion of commonly used words related to ecology in a dictionary, without passing judgment on their desirability. The definitions align with current usage, and the author does not endorse the terms included.
£20.24
Rawat Urban Geography
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Rawat Poverty, Social Capital and Natural Resources
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£19.49
Rawat Voluntary Effort and Rural Development
Book SynopsisAttempts to evaluate the voluntary efforts being done in rural India in organising the marginalised weaker sections of the society for their development and liberation.
£22.12
Rawat Rural Development: Macro-micro Realities
Book SynopsisThere are major reshuffles in policies, programmes and strategies of rural development. It is under serious debate that whether the global vis a vis the local is contradictory or complementary to each other and also can these co-exist amicably.
£23.62
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd Forest: Pegasus Encyclopedia Library
Book SynopsisAges 8 to 10 years. The Environment Series deals with various subjects. Reading the encyclopaedias will make young readers more responsible towards the planet Earth.
£6.52
Springer, India, Private Ltd Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis.- Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities.- Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan.- Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts.- Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and their Pattern of Urbanisation Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishompayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim.- Chapter 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth S. Chandrasekhar.- Chapter 6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik.- Chapter 7. On global and Multiple Linkages in the making of an Ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmed.- Part II Land, Society, Belonging.- Chapter 8. The multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara territory Solomon Benjamin.- Chapter 9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India Bhuvaneswari Raman.- Chapter 10. Territorial legends: Politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma.- Chapter 11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu, and How they Remain Diya Mehra.- Chapter 12. Hindu temples and development of localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) Pierre-Yves Trouillet.- Part III. Small towns between rural and urban administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services.- Chapter 13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: what does it mean for small town India? Sama Khan.- Chapter 14. Shedding light on social and economic changes in small towns through the prism of local governance: A case study of Haryana Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 15. Purdah and Politics: Women’s Participation in Local Governance Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance Gopa Samanta.- Chapter 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? Partha Mukhopadhyay.- Part IV Producing and Innovating in non-metropolitan contexts.- Chapter 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda.- Chapter 19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode Yann Philippe Tastevin.- Chapter 20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh N. Sridharan.- Chapter 21. Mapping small towns’ productive and employment configurations Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis.- Chapter 22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy Ajay Sharma.- Chapter 23. Non-Timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies Manoj Nadkarni.
£125.99
Abhinav Publications A Glossary of Terms in Regional Planning and
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Rawat Space, Society and Geography
Book SynopsisSince 1970, through various human geographical works, not only society and space got jsuxtaposed to each other, but the imperative to embed space in understanding social progress was also reinforced.
£999.99
Rawat Disasters in India: Studies in Grim Reality
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Rural Development in India: Issues and Politics
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£33.74
Pointer Publishers Semi Arid Land System, Use and Capability
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£999.99
Akashdeep Publishing House Encyclopaedia of Environmental Sciences
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Rupa & Co A Book of India
£20.89
Academic Foundation Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death
Book SynopsisThis book should have been written years ago. It reveals a dark secret of the ideological environmental movement. The movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates these people's most basic human rights, denying them economic opportunities, the chance for better lives, the right to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in Europe and the United States. Even worse, in league with the European Union, United Nations and other bureaucrats, the movement stifles vigorous, responsible debate over energy, pesticides, biotechnology and trade. It prevents needy nations from using the very technologies that developed countries employed to become rich, comfortable and free of disease. And as a consequence, it sends millions of infants, children, men and women to early graves every year. The ideological environmental movement is a powerful $4-billion-a-year US industry, an $8-billion-a-year international gorilla. Many of its members are intensely eco-centric, and seem to believe that wildlife and ecological values are more important than human progress or even human life.
£18.95
Dattsons The Sixth Extinction: Global Warming, Climate
Book SynopsisThe book discusses global warming, climate change, biodiversity loss, and their impacts on Earth and humanity. It emphasizes the need for urgent action to achieve sustainability and highlights the importance of leadership in driving towards sustainable growth and poverty eradication.
£16.62
Dattsons Space for Sustainable Development
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£13.99
Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Human Impact on Desert Environment
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£43.49
Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Biodiversity, Conservation, and Systematics
Book SynopsisThe international botanical community recognizes that plants create the ecological habitat for all terrestrial organisms. This title compiles the knowledge on various aspects of biodiversity.
£31.49
Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Biodiversity and Environmental Biotechnology
Book SynopsisThe applied aspects of microbiology and biotechnology with reference to environmental issues including biodiversity are the frontier areas of research focus among researchers.
£49.49
Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Environment and Self Endangered Man
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Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Global Groundwater Resources and Management
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£110.99
Books Faith Altai-Himalaya: A Travel Diary
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£30.00
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Managing Water Scarcity: Experiences and
Book SynopsisCollection of essays on water scarcity and conflicts in India, Europe, and the USA, discussing handling mechanisms and effectiveness. Contributors are experts from various disciplines. Emphasizes the importance of transdisciplinary dialogue and multi-pronged action to address water issues.
£45.00
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Reconstructing Identities: Tribes,
Book SynopsisBrings together essays on the marginal and elite social groups from early medieval times to the colonial period.
£30.00
Aryan Books International The Ice Age in the Indian Subcontinent: With
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£102.59
Aryan Books International Sacred Groves in India
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£33.74
Narosa Publishing House Physical Methods of Soil Characterization
Book SynopsisThe book covers topics on soil moisture studies using various techniques, soil physico-chemical properties, crop simulation, tillage guides, fertilizer effects, and emerging technologies like remote sensing and GIS for soil science research. Suitable for physicists, hydrologists, agriculturists, chemists, and researchers in the field.
£999.99
Universities Press Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
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Indus Publishing Company North-eastern Frontier of India
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£15.00
Indus Publishing Company Man, Environment and Development in Himachal
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£11.48
Indus Publishing Company Gazetteer of the Chamba State
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