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Cambridge University Press Roots in the African Dust
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Cambridge University Press Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific
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Cambridge University Press On Restructuring Territoriality Europe and the United States Compared
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1
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Cambridge University Press The City as Text
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Cambridge University Press The City in Time and Space
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Cambridge University Press Restructuring Territoriality
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Roman Ionia
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Cambridge University Press Fields of Glass
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Cambridge University Press Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 16201650
Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Masters of the Lost Land
Book Synopsis?Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia and how hard it will be to eradicate.? New York Times Book ReviewA raw account of the critical struggle between law and lawlessness on the world's last great frontier. Christian Science MonitorIn the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest and anyone who stands in the wayDeep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Para, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon's small but robust farmworkers' union, led by the charismatic Dezinho, who fought to put power back into the hands of the people who called the Amazon home. But when Dezinho was assassinated in cold blood, it seemed the farmworkers' struggle had come to a violent and fruitless end.What no one anticipated was that this event would bring forth an unlikely hero: Dezinho's widow. Against great odds, and at extreme personal risk, Maria Joel, now a single mother of four young children, used her ingenuity and unwavering support from union members to bring her husband's killer to account in court. Her campaign gained unexpected momentum, helping to bring international attention to the dire situation in Rondon, from Brazil's president Lula to international celebrities and civil rights groups.Maria Joel's fight for justice had far-reaching implications: it unearthed a chilling world of corruption and lawlessness rooted in Brazil's quest to turn the largest rain forest on earth into an economic frontier. As more details came out, it began to look increasingly likely that Dezinho's killer, a reluctant and inexperienced gunman, was just one piece of a larger criminal consortium, with ties leading all the way up to one of the region's most powerful and notorious fazendeiros of all.Featuring groundbreaking revelations and exclusive interviews, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction is the culmination of journalist Heriberto Araujo's years-long investigation in the heart of the Amazon. Set against the backdrop of appalling deforestation rates and resultant superfires, Masters of the Lost Land vividly reveals the human story behind the loss of and fierce crusade to protect one of our greatest resources in the fight against climate change and one of the last wild places on earth.
£19.99
Oxford University Press, Canada Human Geography
Book SynopsisInternational in scope and written for Canadians - an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to Human GeographyThe tenth edition of this bestselling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the discipline''s essential concepts and methods. With a well-balanced mix of international and Canadian examples, the text examines the ways in which human behaviour transforms the earth''s surface in response to changing social, cultural, political, and environmental factors.Trade ReviewFrom previous editions: "This is my favourite introductory human geography textbook... This text provides a solid foundation for intro human geography. It introduces the key vocabulary in an accessible way and draws in a variety of current research in a way that makes geography both interesting and approachable." -Patricia Fitzpatrick, University of Winnipeg "Most other texts are American-focused or Canadian adaptations of American texts. Of the global texts, Norton and Mercier is the best at providing a comprehensive treatement of human geography." -Brent Doberstein, Univeristy of WaterlooTable of ContentsNote: All chapters include: - Chapter Introduction - Points to Consider - Conclusion - Summary - Questions for Critical Thought - List of Links to Other Chapters Tenth Edition: Special Features 1. What Is Human Geography? NEW Defining Human Geography Concepts: Space, Place, and Region Concepts: Interaction, Communication, and Movement Geographic Tools People and Places 2. Population and Health Geography Population Distribution Population Dynamics Fertility Mortality Natural Increase Government Policies The Composition of a Population History of Population Growth Explaining Population Growth Migration Health Geographies 3. Uneven Development and Global Inequalities Identifying Global Inequalities Explaining Global Inequalities Interpreting the Significance of Global Inequalities Feeding the World Refugees Natural Disasters and Diseases Prospects for Economic Growth Striving for Equality, Fairness, and Social Justice 4. Geographies of Culture and Landscape A World Divided by Culture? Formal Cultural Regions Vernacular Cultural Regions The Making of Cultural Landscapes Cultural Variables: Language and Religion Language Religion 5. Geographies of Identity and Difference The Cultural Turn The Myth of Race Ethnicity Gender Sexuality Identities and Landscape Geographies of Well-Being Folk Culture and Popular Culture Tourism 6. Political Geography State Creation Geopolitics (and Geopolitik) Unstable States Groupings of States The Role of the State Elections: Geography Matters The Geography of Peace and War Our Geopolitical Future? 7. An Urban World An Urbanizing World The Origins and Growth of Cities The Location of Cities Urban Systems and Hierarchies Global Cities 8. Urban Form and the Social Geography of the City Explaining Urban Form Housing and Neighbourhoods Suburbs and Sprawl Inequality and Poverty Cities as Centres of Production and Consumption Transportation and Communication Planning the City Cities of the Less Developed World 9. Geographies of Food and Agriculture The Geography of Food Production Distance, Land Value, and Land Use Domesticating Plants and Animals The Evolution of World Agricultural Landscapes World Agriculture Today: Types and Regions Global Agricultural Restructuring Food Production, Food Consumption, and Identity 10. Geographies of Energy, Industry, and Services Economic Activity The Industrial Location Problem The Industrial Revolution Fossil Fuel Sources of Energy World Industrial Geography Globalization and Industrial Geographies Uneven Development in More Developed Countries 11. Geographies of Globalization Introducing Globalization Geography as a Discipline in Distance Overcoming Distance: Transportation Overcoming Distance: Trade Overcoming Distance: Transnational Corporations (TNCs) Overcoming Distance: Transmitting Information Interpreting, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Globalization The Global Economic System Cultural Globalization Political Globalization Globalization: Good or Bad? 12. Humans and the Environment A Global Perspective Environmental Concern Human Impacts on Vegetation Human Impacts on Animals Human Impacts on Land, Soil, Air, and Water Earth's Vital Signs Sustainability and Sustainable Development Glossary References Index
£91.19
University of Washington Press How to Read the American West
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh perspective on the natural and human history of the American West and encourages readers to discover that history has shaped the places where people live, work, and visit. This book includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on a hundred landscape features across the American West.Trade Review"[Wyckoff] encourages us to see with fresh eyes even as we're barreling down the interstate - to remember to think about the role of time in shaping a landscape, as well as the role of water. He asks us to think about who controls the landscape, and how these places have been shaped by different human interventions. . . . [How to Read the American West] is a marvelous springtime tonic for wanderlust and a wonderful invitation to see our surroundings in a new light." -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael * Bellingham Herald *"Wyckoff has created a delightful package that would be especially useful in a classroom or, for that matter, as a gift to someone outside the field of cultural landscape studies but curious about it. . . . On the basis of its sheer good looks, the book could double as a coffee table book about the modern West." -- Cathleen D. Cahill * Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum *"A field guide unlike any other, with a focus on patterns, variations and the distribution of landscape features . . . it draws attention to eco-tones, watersheds, settlement patterns and corridors of connection . . . ultimately, it considers our grip on the land and the land's grip on us." -- Michael Engelhard * High Country News *"If you like to travel the American West, put this book on your holiday gift list . . . even the experienced Western traveler will come away with new ways to look at familiar places." -- Carl Abbott * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"William Wyckoff, a professor of geography at Montana State University and talented photographer, has created a strange, fascinating and often humorous book that surveys our modern American landscape, both natural and human-built." -- Christian Martin * Cascadia Weekly *"Visually delightful and intellectually informative. . . . [A] truly outstanding field guide to the American West." -- J. Clark Archer * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"A lavish coverage of western landscapes that will trigger remembrance of past place visits, and spur an almost inescapable urge to find competing views in scanned 35 mm slides or among recent images gone straight-to-digital. . . . And the text here is fully equal to the visuals. Just in case you haven’t yet guessed, I’m going to tell you that Bill Wyckoff’s new book, a field guide explaining in delicious detail, How to Read the American West, is a movable feast of narrative and landscape elucidation. . . . So get thee into the field. Bring this book with you." -- Paul F. Starss * The Geographic Review *"I will not hide my fandom of this book. . . . The text is clear, descriptive, and appropriately analytical for a wide audience, thus making it equally useful in the classroom. The full color pictures are gorgeous. . . . Belongs on the shelf of any scholar, amateur or professional, with interests in the western half of this country." -- Chris W. Post * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Ackowledgements Map of the Eleven Western States Navigating Western Landscapes: An Introduction 1. Nature's Fundament 2. Farms and Ranches 3. Landscapes of Extraction 4. Places of Special Cultural Identity 5. Connections 6. Landscapes of Federal Largesse 7. Cities and Suburbs 8. Playgrounds Chronology Further Reading Index
£44.23
University of Washington Press Idahos Place
Book SynopsisFocuses on Gem State history. From the state's indigenous roots and early environmental battles to recent political and social events, this title includes essays that provided context for understanding Idaho's important role in the development of the American West.Trade Review"[A] guidebook to recent interpretations of the state’s history. For scholars teaching and researching Northwest history, the volume provides an informed way-station to advancing understanding of the region." -- William G. Robbins * Oregon Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Idaho's Place: Reckoning with History / Adam M. Sowards 2. The Confluence of Rivers: The Indigenous Tribes of Idaho / Rodney Frey and Robert McCarl IDAHO VOICES: Native American History 3. Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho / Kevin R. Marsh IDAHO VOICES: Environmental History 4. Idiosyncrasy and Enigma: Idaho Politics / Katherine G. Aiken IDAHO VOICES: Political History 5. The Power and the Glory: Idaho's Religious History / Jill K. Gill IDAHO VOICES: Religious History 6. Defying Boundaries: Women in Idaho History / Laura Woodworth-Ney and Tara A. Rowe IDAHO VOICES: Women's History 7. Confronting Race and Creating Community: Idaho's Ethnic History / Laurie Mercier IDAHO VOICES: Ethnic History 8. Latinos in Idaho / Making Their Way in the Gem State: Errol D. Jones IDAHO VOICES: Latino History 9. Shifting Currents: Cultural Expressions in Idaho / Richard W. Etulain IDAHO VOICES: Cultural History 10. Telling Stories: Idaho's Histories / Judith Austin IDAHO VOICES: Historians Contributors Index
£39.00
St Martin's Press Why the West RulesFor Now
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA remarkable book . . . an important book?one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here.?The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West''s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules?for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines?from ancient history to neuroscience?not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
£23.75
Random House Canada Planet Canada How Our Expats Are Shaping the
Book SynopsisA leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with people as diverse as Canada's ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when our expats are eager to help.Failing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boaste
£20.80
Farrar, Straus and Giroux On the Move
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceOn the Move explains how we got here and where we''re headed. It''s crucial guide to the world we are creating. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding
£24.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Cities
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Johns Hopkins University Press Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
Book SynopsisPublishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture.Trade ReviewProvides a lively sample of the latest scholarship that critics and fans of Los Angeles alike will enjoy. -- Allison Varzally Southern California Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Los Angeles Studies and the Future of Urban CulturesChapter 1. Best MTA Bus Line: The Number 18, yes, let's take a trip down Whittier BoulevardChapter 2. Learning from Los Angeles: Another One Rides the BusChapter 3. Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of MigrationsChapter 4. Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los AngelesChapter 5. The Figure of the Neighbor: Los Angeles Past and FutureChapter 6. Straight into Compton: American Dreams, Urban Nightmares, and the Metamorphosis of a Black SuburbChapter 7. L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los AngelesChapter 8. "What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews":Chapter 9. Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside during the 1950sChapter 10. The Art of the City: Modernism, Censorship, and the Emergence of Los Angeles's Postwar Art SceneChapter 11. Bringing Music to the People: Race, Urban Culture, and Municipal Politics inChapter 12. Postwar Los AngelesChapter 13. The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside Chapter 14. What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda?Chapter 15. Making Music in Nuevo L.A.Chapter 16. Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)Chapter 17. Borders and Social Distinction in the Global SuburbChapter 18. Nuestra Los AngelesContributors Index
£27.73
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Early American Cartographies
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Random House USA Inc Pandoras Seed Why the HunterGatherer Holds the
Book SynopsisTen thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.
£13.60
Random House USA Inc The End of Nature
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University of Minnesota Press Meeting Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paul Carter's commentaries on cross-cultural encounters have long been philosophically sophisticated and deservedly influential. His new book raises the question of what the value of meeting is, in whose terms. It takes us to the very heart of the histories of encounter and confrontation that have proven so intractable for so long in Australia and elsewhere." —Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge"The Meeting Place, Carter’s latest foray into colonial and postcolonial encounters of peoples, epistemologies, and longings, exposes what he foregrounds and reiterates as a ‘meeting place’ of desired belonging and social union. It is an imaginative, referentially capacious, formally demanding, as well as theoretically inventive book." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsResponseBorderlineAsideRendez-vousHollowed OutCladdingCatching UpEcho LocationScalesOver and AboveThirdingsAll ChangeLiaisonsSinging ThroughX Marks the SpotG/hostsEnigma VariationsIn PassingPigeon HolesErotic ZonesFirst ImpressionsWithin a CooeeDangerousI Read Marx (I Don’t)TerminalMiddle GroundBlind SpotSave the WallAll EarsI Have Wondered beyond AbsolutesAccompanimentProxyNotesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Africas Information Revolution
Book SynopsisAfrica's Information Revolution was recently announced as the2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authorsJames T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Represents the first book-length comparative case study ICT diffusion in Africa of its kind Confronts current information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) discourse by providing a counter to largely optimistic mainstream perspectives on Africa's prospects for m- and e-development Features comparative research based on more than 200 interviews with firms from a manufacturing and service industry in Tanzania and South Africa Raises key insights regarding the structural challenges facing Africa even in the context of the continentTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii 1 ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg) 1 2 ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts 25 3 ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework 47 4 ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania 73 5 ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks 113 6 Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs 147 7 Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg) 176 8 Conclusion 200 References 215 Index 243
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Flatiron Books Nomad Century
Book SynopsisFrom an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century, an urgent investigation of environmental migrationthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change whereand howwe live.The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I''ll ever read.Mary RoachAn IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation. Bill McKibbenWe are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of.Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present,
£16.99
McGraw-Hill Education Connect Access Card for Human Geography
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McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Human Geography
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£140.40
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Strayed Homes
Book SynopsisEdwina Attlee is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture.Trade ReviewStrayed Homes brings a valuable contribution on spaces as they’re occupied and used; a type of enquiry that is rare in architectural history, which tends to be concerned predominantly with designers. It would make heartening reading for architects who feel stuck in regulations and requirements and would like to rediscover spaces as sites of practices, movements and memories; and for anyone who enjoys cultural history written with care and attention to the small details, anxieties and pleasures of life in buildings. * Architect’s Journal *This highly-original study offers a celebration of ordinary spaces – from fire escapes to launderettes – that connect strangers in cities. Providing refuge from regulation, these spaces of temporary togetherness, waiting and daydreaming challenge readers to ask: in what places can citizenship thrive? * Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, University College London, UK *Strayed Homes explores everyday spaces that have none of the cultural or emotional investments of home but which, when examined as carefully as Edwina Attlee does here, tell us how we live. With an eye for the arresting detail and a poetic turn of phrase, Attlee opens up exciting new spaces for the study of everyday life. * Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. INTRODUCTION Rocks, Dreams and Extensions 1. Secular Eruvin 2. Question your teaspoons a. Reading: Roland Barthes b. The Everyday: Michel de Certeau c. Space: Gaston Bachelard 2. LAUNDERETTE 1. Gossip shops for lazy people 2. What was the state of Britain’s laundry in 1949? a. The public washhouse b. The commercial laundry 3. The arrival of the launderette 4. Play 5. Wait 3. COUCHETTE 1. Double negative: a. Location b. Consciousness 2. Cut up and carve 3. Hide and seek 4. Missing and Crossing 5. Strayed homes 4. FIRE ESCAPE 1. The long and heavy ladder 2. Trapdoor 3. Unmarried women 4. Theatre box 5. Left space 5. GREASY SPOON 1. The milk comes and the post goes 2. Home-cooking 3. Stay 4. Cramped 5. For the price of a cup of tea 5. STRAYED HOMES: Politics, Practices, Emotions Bibliography Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Demography
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many different disciplines. The most applied book on the market, Demography: The Science of Population teaches students how to use the multitude of demographic resources available to them as consumers of data. Using case studies throughout to illustrate key concepts in a realistic and concrete manner, the authors also draw examples from recent U.S. Census data, United Nations and World Bank reports, tables from the National Center for Health Statistics, and other U.S. state- and county-level sources. New to the Second EditionThis second edition is divided into four main parts; each part begins with a short introduction, and all chapters include end-of-chapter summaries. All tables, related narrative, and graphics have been updated to include data from the 2000 and 2010 census counts, more recent estiTrade ReviewThe strength of the book is its many tables and graphs which illustrate many features of demography in an accessible and clear way. The case studies, for example, the way in which Zambia arrived at its population policy, are useful and well presented. * European Journal of Population *
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DK Student World Atlas 9th Edition
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Rowman & Littlefield Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Book SynopsisThis richly-illustrated, full-color textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Geographic Information Systems. Written in a clear and accessible style, it makes the complex and sophisticated field of GIS and spatial thinking comprehensible for first-time users. Exercises in every chapter allow students to master GIS skills.
£100.00
Basic Books Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd Enough
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space:
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Names on the Land: A Historical Account of
Book SynopsisGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life.Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t.Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.
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Counterpoint The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of
Book SynopsisIn March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.
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Catapult Dispersals
Book SynopsisA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared futureA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being ‘out of place’—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.
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Catapult Dispersals
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Hendrickson Academic Christianity in East and Southeast Asia
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Nimbus Publishing Ltd Grand Pre: Landscape for the World
Book SynopsisIn 2012 the Landscape of Grand Pre, which includes the entire Grand Pre Marsh and portions of North Grand Pre, Hortonville, Grand Pre, and Lower Wolfville, was declared Nova Scotia's third UNESCO World Heritage Site. This newest addition to the Stories of our Past series details the area's physical and cultural evolution in an accessible, highly visual format. Grand Pre explores the interrelationship of the peoples and landscape of Grand Pre, from the legacies of the dykelands to the record-breaking tides of the Minas Basin. With a focus on the resilient first peoples of Grand Pre-the Mi'kmaq and the Acadians-the book explores the implications of the Grand Derangement, including the arrival of New England Planter and Scots settlers, the twentieth-century Acadian Renaissance, and the creation of the "Land of Evangeline." Includes informative sidebars and 50 colour photos.
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Demeter Press Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of
Book SynopsisThis collection broaches the intersections of critical motherhood studies and feminist geography. Contributors demonstrate that an important dimension of the social construction of motherhood is how mothering happens in space and place, leading to the articulation of diverse maternal geographies. Through 16 concise chapters divided into three thematic sections, the contributors provide an account of motherhood and mothering as spatial practices that are embedded in relations of power across time and place. While some contributors explore how dominant discourses of motherhood seek to keep mothers in their place, others take up the notion of maternal geographies as productive in their own right and follow their subjects as they create a new sense of place. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that mothers are produced and regulated as subjects in relation to space and place, and also that practices of mothering produce spatial relationships. The scholars gathered here bring interdisciplinary approaches from diverse fields including women’s and gender studies, sexuality studies, social geography, sociology, anthropology, fine arts, literary studies, and film studies. Chapters include submissions from authors who reference the geographical contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Eastern Caribbean, Great Britain, Japan and Samoa, and the United States.Trade Review“Maternal Geographies is an accessible collection that brings together a diverse set of arguments via engaging styles of presentations. The Editors position the contributions within an interdisciplinary backdrop through which authors detail the spatialities of mothering. Instead of the well-worn trope of mothers facing challenges, each of the authors foregrounds mothering as a process, bringing refreshingly neoteric angles to understanding what mothering is all about. Contributions provide personal accounts of sculpting spaces for conventionally understood as `out of place’ mothering, offer novel readings of art forms that bring a sensitivity to the complexity of the lives of women who mother, and advance methodological queries into embodied research practices that extend well beyond the research topic. This reorientation away from the idealizations of mother and motherhood toward mothering as a process will no doubt affect the way researchers approach mothers and motherhood through the practices of mothering.” - Professor Pamela Moss, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsChapter 1: “Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of Place” by Jennifer Johnson & Krista Johnston Chapter 2: “Reconstructing `Home’ Through Mothering in Japan: A Case of Samoan Wives” by Minako Kuramitsu Chapter 3: “May: Mothering in Space and Place, Painting and Poem” by Wanda Campbell Chapter 4: “Mothering, Geography, and Spaces of Play” by Laurel O’Gorman Chapter 5: “Spatial Practices of Care, Knowledge and Becoming Among Mothers of Children with Autism” by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Chapter 6: “A Global Positioning System: On `Finding Myself’ as a Mother in the Romantic Landscape” by Elizabeth Philps Chapter 7: “Good Mothers?: Geographies of Sexualized Labour and Mothering in the Strip Trades in Northern Ontario” by Tracy Gregory and Jennifer Johnson Chapter 8: “PLACEnta: Finding Our Way Home” by Jules Koostachin Chapter 9: “Pregnancy, Gender and Career Progression: The Visible Mother in the Workplace” by Danielle Drozdzewski and Natasha Klocker Chapter 10: “Belly, Baby, Boundaries: The Effect of Pregnancy on Research Relationships” by Shana Calixte Chapter 11: “Fields of Care: (Auto)ethnography of the Politics of Pregnancy and Foodwork in Aotearoa New Zealand” by Emma Sharp Chapter 12: “Engineering the Good Mother: A Case Study of Opportunity NYC” by Carolyn Fraker Chapter 13: “Mothers Out of Place in Argentine Cinema” by Nadia Der-Ohannesian Chapter 14: “Geographies of Care and Peripheral Citizenship Among Mothers of the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program” by Nathalie Reis Itaboraí Chapter 15: “`Parce que sans ça tu les oublies, les chansons…’: Mothering Between Solidarity and Difference Through Francophone Places and Networks in Kingston, ON” by Laurence Simard-Gagnon Chapter 16: “LGBT Families and `Motherless’ Children: Tracking Heteronormative Resistances in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia” by Catherine Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Kath Browne
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Verso Books Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Book SynopsisFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. In The Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. And offers an alternative vision of the feminist city.Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.Trade ReviewA damning stab at the subtle and overt manipulation of women in urban spaces. Kern's interwoven references to her personal experience through childhood, adulthood, and motherhood make her deeply researched and whip-smart work infinitely readable. Kern shows that the ability of all women to exploit the city fully is a valuable, necessary gauge for city worth -- Lezlie Lowe, author of No Place To GoThis original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender. Empirically grounded in the intricacies of the condo market in Toronto, it both adds to, and updates, the pathbreaking work around gendered critical urban analysis. An accessible and incisive text that will no doubt instigate future discussions -- Loretta Lees, Cities Group, Department of Geography, King’s College, London * [for Sex and the Revitalised City] *How do we begin to reckon with and ultimately reimagine our public realm in the #MeToo era? We can start by lifting up a greater diversity of experiences and voices that influence our thinking about what makes a place equitable, fun, accessible, safe, and dynamic for all. Kern's exploration is honest, timely, and intentional in acknowledging the work of women-fellow urbanists and others-in advancing the feminist city -- Lynn M. Ross, AICP, urban planner and feministThe next-generation urbanism book I've been waiting for! Leslie lays out a comprehensive guide to feminist world-building that our cities so desperately need. A must-read for all city officials and budding urbanists alike as we move into the female future of our urban environments. -- Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel UniversityCities aren't built to accommodate female bodies, female needs, female desires. In this rich, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the "city of men" into a city for everyone. Let's all move there immediately.' Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse -- Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse[An] insightful scholarly work ... This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists. * Publishers Weekly *This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience, Leslie Kern's intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book! -- Julia DeVarti * Literati Bookstore *Approachable and based in thorough research ... In eye-opening detail, [Feminist City] argues that the privatization of security and heightened police presences endanger women of certain demographic groups, while marketers, who present condo living as the safest way to exist in a city, ironically turn women into accomplices in gentrification, forcing low-income women out of safer areas and into environments that are more dangerous. -- Tanisha Rule * Foreword Reviews *An optimistic, pragmatic book, which points to already extant solutions and looks forward to a more just, joyous urban future. -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * Tribune *In Feminist City, Kern imagines a world where public spaces are designed with women and equity in mind. * Bitch *Kern resists drawing a blueprint for a new master-planned feminist city. Instead, she believes we ought to take a closer look at how cities perpetuate inequality from the perspective of race, gender, ability, and class. -- Diana Budds * Curbed *An intersectional analysis of our urban environments through a combination of personal narrative, theory, and pop culture analysis. -- Leilah Stone * Metropolis Magazine *[Feminist City] examines the city's paradoxical ability to oppress and emancipate-how an environment teeming with gendered inconvenience, racial discrimination, and sexual violence can also be a locus of queer independence, community care, and emancipatory feminist world-making. ... Heavily researched but accessibly written, the book is a dynamic mix of high and low, facts and feelings, research and reality. * Hazlitt *Kern delves into the interlocking inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities, using an intersectional feminist approach to explore the gendered aspects of urban space...an enjoyable and accessible book that not only contributes to urban feminist geography, but to urban planning and policy more broadly * LSE Review of Books *Feminist City is brilliant because of the ways it lays out, quite clearly, the fact that cities are designed to discriminate in both overt and hidden ways and that it's possible to imagine something new-something that is more inclusive of different bodies and experiences. -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *[Feminist City is] a small but provocative book. It is both an introduction to feminist geography and to modern feminism, with its multiple meanings and numerous contradictions. ... In a world where the male gaze is so often the only gaze considered, so much so [that] most people don't even think of it as being gendered in any way, Feminist City is revelatory. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *Charting the physical aspects of the city that work against women, from inefficient public transport to a lack of supportive care networks for working mothers, Kern argues that there are ways to transform the city that would advance the liberation of women and marginalized people. ... Kern's analysis seems especially timely as we debate the role of police in our society and how we can better protect marginalized people. -- Nicole Froio * Bitch Media *Looking through the lens of geography, pop culture and public and personal history, the book exposes how female bodies are ostracised in urban spaces. * Refinery29 *Feminist City balances descriptions of our environment with the internal conversations or anxieties we feel as we wait for the bus, rush to pick up our child before daycare closes, and navigate space that's designed to keep us inside. -- Elizabeth Whitton * Greater Greater Washington *A joy to dip into * The Developer *There should be more books like this...Feminist City is wide-ranging and sophisticated, brief and engaging. * ICON Magazine *[Kern's] message is that thoughtful planners can and, eventually will, arrive at the feminist city as long as women's voices get the attention they deserve. -- Josh Stephens * California Planning & Development Report *A wide-ranging survey of social inequalities exacerbated by one-size-fits-all urban planning-inequalities ripe for improvement. -- Britta Shoot * KQED *Kern [wants] to envision a more inclusive city that considers the physical and cultural needs of its most marginalized members. -- Apoorva Tadepalli * In These Times *[Kern] introduces readers to a number of different ways the city is at once emancipatory and endangering. She deploys an intersectional lens to explore such themes as mobility, protest, adolescence, and friendship, weaving together an impressive array of sources from academic writings and popular culture (Doreen Massey appears alongside Two Dope Queens). -- Sophie Gonick * Public Books *Feminist City presents a comprehensive analysis of how people of color are the folks that make our cities work, and yet, they are not the folks our cities were designed for. -- Audrey Kalman * The Daily Emerald *Reminds us that our cities are moulded by male fantasies and designed to serve gender-based structures. * New Welsh Review *A good introduction to reading the city from a feminist perspective. * Urban Design Group *So much to digest here - cities old and new, politics old and new. -- Rosita Sweetman * Irish Times *Feminist City is a call for gender equity in planning (and for intersectionality), and it's one that planners of all genders should heed. * Planetizen (The Top Urban Planning Books of 2020) *Kern works to identify what a feminist city actually is as she pushes readers to thinkbigger, to think more radically, to think in terms of proactive world- and community-building ratherthan reactionary, incrementalist, or singularly policy-based world-adjusting. ... Feminist City provides a fundamental critique of contemporary society through a feminist and urbanist lens. Itshould be considered a significant contribution to both fields of study. -- Anna Parnigoni * Journal of Urban Affairs *An excellent contribution ... Leslie Kern's clear laying out of feminist urban theory and empirical work generates both a personal and critical understanding of the city. * Gender & Development *I was hooked by this deep dive into how women's freedom is curtailed by the design and culture of man-made cities - and how we can reclaim space -- Moya Crockett * Stylist Loves *[Feminist City] encourages people to look around their community and ask: Who are these spaces meant for? Who feels included and safe and welcome, and who might feel excluded, unsafe or even pushed out of the city? -- Vawn Himmelsbach * Wheels.ca *Importantly, Kern shows how sexism in cities is also inextricably linked to other systems of privilege and oppression, particularly racism, classism, homophobia and ableism ... a noteworthy book for our times * The F-Word *Essential . Kern an excellent example of a writer who wants to amplify marginalised voices . Feminist City urges women to take up space in their environments and not to be afraid of the unknown. -- Becky Little * Bright Green *
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Spatial Management of Risks
Book SynopsisSpatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area. This book concentrates on examples of prevention but also gives crisis control advice and practical case studies. Some chapters address urban applications in which vulnerabilities are concentrated in area; others address more rural areas with more scattered phenomena.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiii Chapter 1. From Prevention to Risk Management: Use of GIS 1 Sophie SAUVAGNARGUES-LESAGE 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. GIS and public security 3 1.3. Examples of applications for public security 8 1.3.1. SIGASC application 8 1.3.2. Application 12 1.3.3. SIG CODIS application 15 1.4. Prospects for development 18 1.5. Conclusion 19 1.6. Bibliography 19 Chapter 2. Coupled Use of Spatial Analysis and Fuzzy Arithmetic: Assessing the Vulnerability of a Watershed to Phytosanitary Products 23 Bertrand DE BRUYN, Catherine FREISSINET and Michel VAUCLIN 2.1. Introduction 23 2.2. Construction of the index 24 2.3. Implementation of fuzzy calculations 26 2.4. Application to the watershed of Vannetin: vulnerability to atrazine 28 2.4.1. The research site 28 2.4.2. Parameters of the watershed 28 2.4.3. Cell parameters 29 2.4.4. Fuzzy parameters 30 2.4.5. Representation of the indicator and of its related inaccuracy 31 2.5. Conclusion 33 2.6. Bibliography 36 Chapter 3. Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution 39 Philippe BOLO and Christophe BRACHET 3.1. Introduction 39 3.2. Mapping non-point source pollution phenomenon 40 3.2.1. Mapping principles 40 3.2.2. Description of the research phenomenon 41 3.2.3. Mapping steps 41 3.3. Territorial database building rules 42 3.3.1. Choosing software programs 43 3.3.2. Design of the implemented GIS 44 3.3.3. Organizing and creating geographic information layers 46 3.3.4. Organizing and creating attribute tables 47 3.4. The data sources used 48 3.4.1. Identifying the available information 48 3.4.2. Soil-related data 49 3.4.3. Topography-related data 52 3.4.4. Land use-related data 54 3.4.5. Land planning-related data 56 3.5. Pollution risk zoning 58 3.5.1. Treatments to be performed 58 3.5.2. An example of risk zoning 60 3.6. Risk zoning applications 66 3.6.1. Risk knowledge applications 67 3.6.2. Spatial planning applications 67 3.6.3. Applications related to monitoring water quality 68 3.7. Conclusion 69 3.8. Bibliography 70 Chapter 4. Cartographic Index and History of Road Sites that Face Natural Hazards in the Province of Turin 71 Paola ALLEGRA, Laura TURCONI and Domenico TROPEANO 4.1. Introduction 71 4.2. Principal risks 73 4.3. Research area 74 4.3.1. Geological insight 74 4.3.2. Morphology of the research areas 75 4.4. Working method 76 4.5. Computer-based synthetic analysis and transcription of historical data and information collected on the research area 78 4.6. First results 80 4.7. Structure of computer thematic mapping 82 4.8. Application and use of the method 84 4.9. Bibliography 85 Chapter 5. Forest and Mountain Natural Risks: From Hazard Representation to Risk Zoning – The Example of Avalanches 87 Frédéric BERGER and Jérôme LIÉVOIS 5.1. Introduction 87 5.1.1. General information on forests 87 5.1.2. The protective role of mountain forests 88 5.2. Identification of protective forest zones 90 5.2.1. General principle 90 5.2.2. Methodology 90 5.2.3. Building up a synthesis map of natural hazards 91 5.2.4. Building up the forest map 102 5.2.5. Building up the natural forest-hazard synthesis map 102 5.2.6. Building up the map of socio-economic issues and vulnerability 103 5.2.7. Building up the priority areas for forestry action map 104 5.3. Perspectives 105 5.4. The creation of green zones in risk prevention plans 106 5.4.1. Natural hazard prevention plans 106 5.4.2. Transfer from researchers to users 107 5.4.3. The method used 108 5.4.4. Consequences of these works 111 5.4.5. Reflections and perspectives 111 5.5. Conclusion: general recommendations 112 5.6. Bibliography 112 Chapter 6. GIS and Modeling in Forest Fire Prevention 115 Marielle JAPPIOT, Raphaële BLANCHI and Franck GUARNIERI 6.1. Understanding forest fire risks 115 6.1.1. Risk 116 6.1.2. Description of the phenomenon 116 6.1.3. Particularities of fire risk 117 6.1.4. A spatio-temporal variation of forest fire risk 122 6.2. Forest fire management: risk mapping and the use of spatial analysis 123 6.2.1. Requirements with respect to forest fire risk assessment 123 6.2.2. Forest fire risk assessment and mapping: the use of geographic information systems 126 6.3. Using GIS to map forest fire risks 137 6.3.1. Forest fire risk assessment and mapping in the Massif des Maures (Department of Var): raster GIS 138 6.3.2. WILFRIED – fire fighting support (coupling GIS and model) 143 6.4. Conclusion 147 6.5. Bibliography 148 Chapter 7. Spatial Decision Support and Multi-Agent Systems: Application to Forest Fire Prevention and Control 151 Franck GUARNIERI, Alain JABER and Jean-Luc WYBO 7.1. Introduction 151 7.2. Natural risk prevention support and the need for cooperation between the software programs 152 7.2.1. The cooperation issue between the information systems 152 7.2.2. The various approaches aiming at facilitating this type of cooperation 153 7.3. Towards an intelligent software agent model to satisfy the cooperation between the decision-support systems dedicated to natural risk prevention 154 7.3.1. The multi-agent paradigm 154 7.3.2. Intelligent software agents 155 7.3.3. A proposed intelligent software agent model 157 7.4. Experiment in the field of forest fire prevention and control 158 7.4.1. Context of the experiment 158 7.4.2. The experiment scenario 160 7.4.3. First part of the scenario 160 7.4.4. Second part of the scenario 161 7.4.5. An example of problem solving 165 7.4.6. Conclusion of the scenario 166 7.5. Conclusions and perspectives 166 7.6. Bibliography 167 Chapter 8. Flood Monitoring Systems 169 Jean-Jacques VIDAL and Noël WATRIN 8.1. Introduction 169 8.2. Flood monitoring and warning 170 8.3. Situation diversity 171 8.3.1. Spatial information for a better understanding of the phenomenon 173 8.3.2. Spatial information for flood impact assessment 174 8.4. Technical answers 175 8.4.1. Hydrological observing networks 175 8.4.2. Data processing 176 8.4.3. The integration of acquired knowledge in the natural hazard prevention policy 178 8.5. Conclusion 178 8.6. Bibliography 179 Chapter 9. Geography Applied to Mapping Flood-Sensitive Areas: A Methodological Approach 181 Christophe PRUNET and Jean-Jacques VIDAL 9.1. Introduction 181 9.2. A geographic analysis of flooding 182 9.2.1. Intensity 182 9.2.2. Frequency 182 9.2.3. Extension 185 9.3. A concrete example 188 9.4. Bibliography 190 Chapter 10. Information Systems and Diked Areas: Examples at the National, Regional and Local Levels 193 Pierre MAUREL, Rémy TOURMENT and William HALBECQ 10.1. Context 193 10.2. Analysis of the current situation for the management of diked areas 195 10.3. Spatial dimension and integrated management of diked areas 197 10.4. Examples of information systems dedicated to diked areas 198 10.4.1. An information system at the national level for dike inventory 199 10.4.2. An information system at the regional level to analyze dike failure risks in the Mid-Loire region 200 10.4.3. An information system at local level for the integrated management of diked areas 203 10.5. Recent progress and perspectives 212 10.6. Bibliography 213 Chapter 11. Geomatics and Urban Risk Management: Expected Advances 215 Jean-Pierre ASTÉ 11.1. Towns, risks and geomatics 215 11.1.1. An overview 215 11.1.2. City: a much sought after security area 216 11.1.3. Risk: a poorly understood notion 217 11.1.4. Geomatics as a data structuring and management tool 217 11.2. Prevention stakeholders: their responsibilities, their current resources and expectations 218 11.2.1. Ordinary state or emergency state 218 11.2.2. Government and institutional stakeholders 218 11.2.3. Municipal stakeholders and the populations they represent 219 11.2.4. Operational and technical stakeholders 220 11.2.5. Insurance agents 220 11.2.6. Scientific stakeholders 221 11.2.7. Compelled to live with an identified risk 222 11.3. Today’s methods and tools: strengths and weaknesses 223 11.3.1. Urban reference systems and the expected connection with the digitizing of cadastral maps 223 11.3.2. Managing experience 224 11.3.3. Knowledge and modeling of phenomena 226 11.3.4. Monitoring phenomena 227 11.3.5. Reducing vulnerability 227 11.3.6. Risk assessment 228 11.3.7. Macro and microeconomic approach 229 11.3.8. The means of exchange of experiences, skills and knowledge 230 11.3.9. Consultation, public information, training and culture 230 11.4. New potentialities using geomatic methods and tools 232 11.4.1. Geomatics 232 11.4.2. Acquiring and structuring spatial and temporal data 233 11.4.3. Modeling phenomena and behaviors 235 11.4.4. Task analysis and support to complete and control them 237 11.4.5. Managing experience and knowledge 238 11.4.6. Quantified and hierarchical appreciation of the risks involved 239 11.5. Some ongoing initiatives since the beginning of 2001 240 11.5.1. Examples from Lyon: the information system of the service of Balmes and the GERICO project 240 11.5.2. An Alpine concern: avalanche risk management 242 11.5.3. Risk management and natural or man-made subterranean caverns, mines and quarries 243 11.5.4. The RADIUS project of the international decade for natural disaster reduction (Décennie internationale pour la prevention des catastrophes naturelles (DIPCN)) 243 11.5.5. Bogotá and its risk and crisis information system (SIRE) 244 11.5.6. The COEUR project in preparation between the Rhône-Alpine and Mediterranean cities 244 11.5.7. The Base-In project of recording Grenoble’s historical floods 245 11.6. Assessment and outlook: fundamental elements of future systems 245 11.6.1. Territory 246 11.6.2. Phenomena 246 11.6.3. Stakeholders 247 11.7. Bibliography 247 List of Authors 249 Index 251
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Religion in Der Postkonfessionellen Gesellschaft:
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Fragmented Dhaka: Analysing Everyday Life with
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