Human geography Books

Book SynopsisJing Luo is Professor of French and Chinese and Director of the Chinese Program at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA. His research areas include urban studies, China's economic and political transition, and linguistics.

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Book SynopsisMaps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie. This engaging text provides the tools to read, analyze, and use any kind of map and assess its strengths and weaknesses. Requiring no advanced math skills, the book presents basic concepts of symbolization, scale, coordinate systems, and projections. It gives students a deeper understanding of the types of maps they encounter every day, from turn-by-turn driving directions to the TV weather report. Readers also learn how to use multiple maps and imagery to analyze an area or region. The book includes 168 figures, among them 22 color plates; most of the figures can be downloaded as PowerPoint slides from the companion website. Appendices contain a glossary, recommended resources, a table of commonly used projections, and more.Trade Review“Tyner has done it again--she has crafted an accessible book that makes reading about maps not only educational but fun! Here she convinces us that even as maps move from paper onto the Web and mobile devices, knowing how to use them and understanding how they work is as important as ever. By clearly differentiating map reading from map analysis, Tyner ably covers the concepts needed to become proficient in map interpretation and spatial thinking. This is a suitable text for introductory map and spatial analysis classes.”--Ian Muehlenhaus, PhD, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University "This is a broad-based introduction to map use, reading, and interpretation. While it could be read cover to cover, its strength is in providing concise, stand-alone descriptions and explanations of map types and mapping conventions that are sufficiently detailed without being overwhelming. Tyner’s expertise as an instructor is evident in her conversational discussions of highly technical and specialized topics; her style will put nonexpert readers quickly at ease as she does not rely on technical terms or jargon. World of Maps could be a recommended text for students who are interested in exploring maps and map use, and students in a wide variety of disciplines that incorporate spatial thinking, display, or analysis. It will also find a home in many college and university libraries as a go-to resource."--Jenny Marie Johnson, Maps and Geography Librarian and School of Earth, Society, and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Investigating whether maps are obsolete, Tyner makes a compelling case for the importance of maps in humankind’s past and future and the need for increased cartographic literacy. She writes in a manner that is both entertaining and informative. The extensive bibliography and appendices will help make this book a treasured resource for geographic education. The level is suitable for those engaged in formal study of spatial techniques as well as for neocartographers."--Eugenie Rovai, PhD, Department of Geography and Planning, California State University, Chico-This is a concise introduction to a rich and complex topic, useful for an elementary map reading course. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers.--Choice Reviews, 5/1/2015Table of ContentsI. Map Reading Basics 1. Introduction: The Importance of Map Reading 2. Landmarks of Mapmaking 3. Map Basics 4. The Figure of the Earth and Coordinate Systems 5. Map Projections: The Round Earth on Flat Paper 6. The Earth from Above: Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation II. Map Types and Their Analysis 7. Virtual Maps and GPS 8. Topographic Maps 9. Thematic Maps 10. Maps for Navigation 11. Maps for Special Purposes III. Putting It All Together 12. Map Interpretation 13. Epilogue: The Future of Maps and Map Reading Appendix A. Glossary Appendix B. Abbreviations Appendix C. Useful Statistics Appendix D. Resources Appendix E. Commonly Used Projections Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate. Many methods have been developed for detecting concealed weapons and explosives on the human body. In this important new book, the authors discuss their experiences over the last decade designing and testing microwave and millimetre wave detection and screening systems. It includes examples of actual devices that they have built and tested, along with test results that were obtained in realistic scenarios.The book focuses on the development of non-imaging detection systems, which are similar to radar. These systems do not form a conventional image of the scene and the person(s) being screened. Instead, the sensors detect and analyze the effect that the body, and any concealed objects, has on a transmitted waveform. These systems allow remote detection of both metallic and dielectric devices concealed on the human body in both indoor and outdTrade Review"... focuses on an aspect that is ... usually not a search area for remote sensing researchers, but is a field interesting to know. ... deals with a synthesis of research in the detection of metallic and dielectric objects (without electrical conduction)."—Jean-Marie Dubois, Professor Emeritus, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, from Bulletin d'AQTTable of ContentsIntroduction. RCS Concept and Basic Definitions. Active Millimetre Wave Sensor using Direct Detection Approach. FMCW Sensors for Detecting Hidden Objects. Active Microwave Sensors for Complex Natural Resonance-Based Object Detection. Passive Millimetre Wave Sensors. Role of Shielding Effects in Operating Non-Imaging Sensors.

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Book SynopsisHow does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It shows how concepts of subjectivity draw on spatial ideas and metaphors, and how the grounding and uprooting of the self is understood in terms of place. The different chapters investigate ways in which selves are reimagined through relocation and the traversing of spaces and texts. Many are concerned with the politics of space: how racial, social and sexual topographies are navigated in life writing. Some examine how focusing on space, rather than time, impacts upon auto/biographical form. The book blends sustained theoretical reflections with textual analyses and also includes experimental contTrade ReviewStudies into life writing are a growing field of creative-critical inquiry, and Eveline Killian and Hope Wolf have produced a remarkable addition to existing scholarship. Life Writing and Space brings together a mix of established names and up and coming talent who probe the narration of lives through the prism of space. Drawing on work ranging from cultural critics to hardcore (postmodern) theorists and philosophers, this ambitious volume carves out a new territory for scholars and students interested in the intricacies of (auto)biography. Killian and Wolf's Introduction is exemplary: a work of rigorous and original scholarship that sets the bar very high. The individual contributions are varied, yet each in their own way illuminates the spatial aspects of life writing in new ways. Sebastian Groes, University of Roehampton, UKOpening itself to multiple resonances of spatial concepts, Life Writing and Space draws on literary criticism, cultural studies, and critical geographies to show how places and spaces are imagined, produced, and experienced through auto/biographical practices. This richly intertextual study demonstrates the productive potential of framing lives in terms of spatiality and explores different topologies and tropologies of life writing. Eva C. Karpinski, York University, Canada and author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, TranslationTable of ContentsThe Spatial Dimensions of Life Writing (Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf)PART I: RELOCATING AND REIMAGINING THE SELF 1. Multiple Occupancy: Residency and Retrospection in Trollope’s Orley Farm and An Autobiography(Matthew Ingleby)2. Lost Cities and Found Lives: The ‘Geographical Emotions’ of Bryher and Walter Benjamin(Andrew Thacker)3. Hilary Mantel and the Space of Life Writing(Neil Vickers)PART II: TRAVERSING SPACES AND TEXTS 4. Literary Configurations of the Peripatetic(Helga Schwalm)5. ‘The mystery-magic of foreignness’: Mr Isherwood Changes Places (Eveline Kilian)6. Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives(Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner)PART III: CONTESTED SPACES, PRECARIOUS LIVES 7. Postcolonial Literary Cartography: Writing the Self in Contemporary Algeria(Elizabeth H. Jones)8. Inhabiting the In-Between: (Mis)placing Identity in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks(Kathrin Tordasi)9. Isaac Rosenberg’s Life in Letters: Between the ‘coil of circumstance’ and a ‘place for poetry’(Anne-Julia Schoen)PART IV: SPACE AND THE FORM OF LIFE WRITING 10. Spaces of Intervention: Hélène Cixous’s Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint(Frédéric Regard)11. Strandlines: Eccentric Stories, Thoroughfare Poetics and the Future of the Archive (Hope Wolf)12. The Columbus of the Near-at-Hand: The Author as Traveller through the Everyday(James Attlee)13. There’s No Space Like Home(Clare Brant)

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Book SynopsisDiasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and tTable of ContentsDiasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

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Book SynopsisExplore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental ContextFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC. Developed by a team of experts bridging relevant areas related to the subject (LULC studies, ontology, semantic uncertainty, information science, and earth observation), this book encourages effective and critical uses of LULC data and considers practical contexts where LULC semantics can play a vital role.The book includes work on conceptual and technological semantic practices, including but not limited to categorization; the definition of criteria for sets and their members; metadata; documentation foTrade Review"The book is a collection of articles written by well-known scientists in Spatial Information Science. The book editors and reviewers led by Dr. Ahlqvist – recognized specialist in the land use and land cover data treatment, provide careful selection and high quality of published material. I find this book to be a timely and helpful resource that gathers many different strands of quality research on increasingly pressing issues around the integrated use of land use and land cover data."—Sergei Levashkin, Visual Intelligence LP, Houston, Texas, USATable of ContentsLand Use/Land Cover Classification Systems and Their Relationship to Land Planning. Ontology for National Land Use/Land Cover Map: Poland Case Study. The Need for Awareness of Semantic Plasticity in International Harmonization of Geographical Information: Seen from a Nordic Forest Classification Perspective. Parameterized Approaches to the Categorization of Land Use and Land Cover. Eliciting and Formalizing the Intricate Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Class Definitions. The EAGLE Concept: A Paradigm Shift in Land Monitoring. An Applied Ontology for Semantics Associated with Surface Water Features. Land Type Categories as a Complement to Land Use and Land Cover Attributes in Landscape Mapping and Monitoring. Text Mining Analysis of Land Cover Semantic Overlap . LC: A Spatial-temporal Data Model to Study Qualified Land Cover Changes. Applying Tegon, the Elementary Physical Land Cover Feature, for Data Interoperability. Resolving Semantic Heterogeneities in Land Use and Land Cover. Crowdsourcing Landscape Perceptions to Validate Land Cover Classifications.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental remote sensing plays a critical role in observing key hydrological components such as precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and total water storage on a global scale. As water security is one of the most critical issues in the world, satellite remote sensing techniques are of particular importance for emerging regions which have inadequate in-situ gauge observations. This book reviews multiple remote sensing observations, the application of remote sensing in hydrological modeling, data assimilation and hydrological capacity building in emerging regions.Trade Review"I teach Remote Sensing for Hydrology for graduate students and Ph.D. students. This book will be a perfect text book and reference book for the course. I believe this book will be a valuable textbook or reference book for senior undergraduates or graduate students with emphasis, interest, or major in remote sensing and/or hydrology." — Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, USATable of ContentsSatellite Remote Sensing Observations. Satellite Remote Sensing for Global Precipitation Monitoring. Diurnal Variability of Precipitation in West Africa Monsoon Region. ET Mapping Utilizing Remote Sensing Data. Soil Moisture Estimation Using Active and Passive Remote Sensing Techniques. Remote Sensing Streamflow Estimation via AMSR-E and TMI. Remote Sensing for Surface and Ground Water Observation. Total Water Storage Observed by GRACE. Modeling and Data Assimilation. The Coupled Routing and Excess Storage (CREST) Distributed Hydrological Mode. AMMAS Land Surface Model Intercomparison over West Africa. Multi-Sensor Imaging and Space-Ground Cross-Validation for 2010 Flood along Indus River, Pakistan. Hydroclimatology of Lake Victoria Region Using Hydrologic Model and Satellite Remote Sensing Data. Microwave Satellite Data for Hydrologic Modeling in an Ungauged Basin in Africa. Assimilating the Passive Microwave Streamflow Signals for Improving the Hydrological Predictions in Okavango River Basin, Africa. Statistical and Hydrologic Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation Products for Mountainous Basin. Capacity Building. Real Time Operation Hydrological Monitoring and Forecasting System for Local Decision Makers. Satellite Remote Sensing Drought Monitoring and Predictions Over the Globe. Capacity Building Efforts in Hydrological Modeling for Africa - Workshops about CREST Mode. Capacity Building for Pakistan Hydrometeorologic Hazards. Cloud-Based Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Monitoring sand Mitigation Mobile Device Apps for Empowering Citizen Scientists.

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Book SynopsisFuture remote sensing systems will make extensive use of Compressive Sensing (CS) as it becomes more integrated into the system design with increased high resolution sensor developments and the rising earth observation data generated each year. Written by leading experts in the field Compressive Sensing of Earth Observations provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of the theory and applications of CS in all aspects of earth observations. This work covers a myriad of practical aspects such as the use of CS in detection of human vital signs in a cluttered environment and the corresponding modeling of rib-cage breathing. Readers are also presented with three different applications of CS to the ISAR imaging problem, which includes image reconstruction from compressed data, resolution enhancement, and image reconstruction from incomplete data. Table of ContentsPreface. Editor. Contributors. 1 Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Praxis. 2 Compressive Sensing on the Sphere: Slepian Functions for Applications in Geophysics. 3 Compressive Sensing–Based High Resolution Imaging and Tracking of Targets and Human Vital Sign Detection behind Walls. 4 Recovery Guarantees for High Resolution Radar Sensing with Compressive Illumination. 5 Compressive Sensing for Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging. 6 A Novel Compressed Sensing–Based Algorithm for Space–Time Signal Processing Using Airborne Radars. 7 Bayesian Sparse Estimation of Radar Targets in the Compressed Sensing Framework. 8 Virtual Experiments and Compressive Sensing for Subsurface Microwave Tomography. 9 Seismic Source Monitoring with Compressed Sensing. 10 Seismic Data Regularization and Imaging Based on Compressive Sensing and Sparse Optimization. 11 Land Use Classification with Sparse Models. 12 Compressive Sensing for Reconstruction, Classification, and Detection of Hyperspectral Images. 13 Structured Abundance Matrix Estimation for Land Cover Hyperspectral Image Unmixing. 14 Parallel Coded Aperture Method for Hyperspectral Compressive Sensing on GPU. 15 Algorithms and Prototyping of a Compressive Hyperspectral Imager. Index.

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Book SynopsisRemarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. Each begins with two facing pages: a regional map that shows the major cities and a table of basic statistical information about cities and urbanization in each region and a list of ten salient points about that region’s urban experience. Chapters conclude with a list of references, including films and webpages, which can be used by the student and instructor for additional information about specific cities. This edition adds the important new themes of climate change and migration, while continuing to focus on specifically on sustainability, water, technology, social and environmental justice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban planning trends, and daily life. Vignettes of key cities give the reader a vivid understanding of daily life and the "spirit of place." The opening chapter presents an overview of key terms and concepts and explores contemporary world urbanization, and a concluding chapter projects the world's urban future. Liberally illustrated in full color with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of textboxes to highlight key topics ranging from migration and immigration to LBGTQ activism, human security, and climate change. Clearly written and timely, Cities of the World will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, the developing world, and urban studies. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: World Urban Development—Jessica K. Graybill, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Donald J. Zeigler Chapter Two: Cities of the United States and Canada—Nathaniel M. Lewis and Kai Kentamaa-Squires Chapter Three: Cities of Middle America—Rebecca Clouser, Yadira Mireya Méndez Lemus, and John Finn Chapter Four: Cities of South America—Brian J. Godfrey, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Risa Whitson Chapter Five: Cities of Europe—Linda McCarthy, Joseph Brady, and Niamh Moore-Cherry Chapter Six: Cities of Russia and Central Asia—Jessica K. Graybill and Megan Dixon Chapter Seven: Cities of the Middle East and North Africa—Zia Salim and Donald J. Zeigler Chapter Eight: Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa—Garth Myers, Angela Gray Subulwa, and Francis Owusu Chapter Nine: Cities of South Asia—George Pomeroy, Ishrat Islam, and Vandana Wadhwa Chapter Ten: Cities of Southeast Asia—James Tyner and Arnisson Andre C. Ortega Chapter Eleven: Cities of East Asia—Piper Gaubatz and David Edgington Chapter Twelve: Cities of Australia and the Pacific—Nicole Cook and Suzanne Vallance Chapter Thirteen: Cities of the Future—John Rennie Short Appendix Cover Photo Credits Geographical Index Index to Subjects About the Editors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis text provides a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are commonly used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, Newbold provides undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the field.

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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.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 promise to end welfare as we know it. Peck traces the development, diffusion, and implementation of workfare policies in the United States, and their export to Canada and the United Kingdom. He explores how reforms have been shaped by labor markets and political conditions, how gender and race come into play, and how local programs fit into the broader context of neoliberal economics and globalization. The book cogently demonstrates that workfare rarely involves large-scale job creation, but is more concerned with deterring welfare claims and necessitating the acceptance of low-paying, unstable jobs. Integrating labor market theory, critical policy analysis, and extensive field research, Peck exposes the limitations of workfare policies and points toward more equitable alternatives. Trade ReviewThis is a path-breaking study of welfare restructuring by a radical scholar of international repute. Peck offers a thorough, well grounded, and politically committed critique of the origins, the discourses, the general strategic line, the local variations, the policy turnover, the failures, and the sorry consequences of the current workfare offensive in the United States. He is equally devastating on attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain. He concludes by calling for the reform of work to replace punitive treatment of those without it. --Bob Jessop, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UKIn Workfare States, Peck maps out the complex political geography of the shift from welfare to workfare. He traces workfare as a political and ideological project, from its origins in 'welfare to work' experiments starting in the Reagan years, to the radical U.S. welfare legislation of 1996, and then to the creation of a new global regulatory model that is already reshaping welfare in Canada, the UK and beyond. Peck is a lucid and reliable guide, and his account is indispensable for understanding the new politics of welfare. --Fred Block, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis Peck is the most important intellectual writing about workfare today. No one else writes with such penetrating insight and clarity. Analytically rigorous, yet accessible to the nonexpert reader, this book is an important contribution for anyone who wishes to understand workfare, its current trajectory, and possible futures. In addition to scholars and students, it will be an invaluable resource for those of us confronting workfare on the front lines. --Andrew Mitchell, Workfare Watch Project, Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, Ontario, Canada -Table of ContentsChapter 1IntroductionPART IROOTS OF WORKFAREChapter 2Regulation: Workhouse/Welfare/WorkfareChapter 3Workfare:What Does It Mean?PART IISPACES OF WORKFAREChapter 4Postwelfare States?: Geopolitics of 'Reform'Chapter 5Local Discipline: Workfare at WorkPART IIIECHOES OF WORKFAREChapter 6Canada's Path: Permeable Welfare/Fragile WorkfareChapter 7Another New Deal: Workfare, United Kingdom StyleChapter 8Conclusion: Workfare States?ReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays based on original field research by NGOs and grassroots activists.

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Book SynopsisWidely regarded as the authoritative text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes contemporary approaches to economic development across the third world. Students gain a deeper understanding of the interacting dynamics of culture, gender, race, and class; biophysical factors, such as climate, population, and natural resources; and economic and political processes—all of which have led to the present-day disparities between the first and third worlds. Numerous examples, sidebars, and figures illustrate how people in the Global South are experiencing and contesting the forces of globalization.Trade ReviewA magnificent achievement! A richly detailed yet highly accessible text for courses on globalization and development. The second edition synthesizes diverse perspectives on the inequalities that characterize the contemporary world, clearly laying out how approaches such as postcolonialism and political economy can help us understand global differences. The authors are to be congratulated for crafting a text that does not shy away from the immense complexities of the natural and social world, but presents them in ways that invite reflection. The examples, case studies, and striking graphics and photographs will help students connect global patterns and processes with local lives, including their own.--Susan M. Roberts, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky The first edition of A World of Difference was a uniquely valuable volume that used the leitmotif of difference to present a comprehensive picture of the world's physical and social systems. In the second edition, this approach is given an added dimension by pairing the focus on difference with a focus on knowledge. The authors artfully weave these two themes together, providing readers with a profound understanding of the world in which they live.--Philip E. Steinberg, Department of Geography, Florida State University A textbook of impressive scope. The authors bring to the fore the perspectives of those inhabiting subject positions, spaces, and scales that have historically been excluded. Richly illustrated, the book introduces students to the complexity of our world and examines the multiple, intersecting forces that shape lives, livelihoods, and possibilities for change. Ultimately, the text offers a hopeful analysis that takes careful account of how globalization and resistance are always worked out in specific contexts, rather than being dictated from on high.--Victoria A. Lawson, Department of Geography, University of Washington This book is an invaluable resource not only for geographers, but for all who are interested in development and social change. Coverage ranges from colonial projects to corporate globalization, from local resource use to the politics of transnational investment, from theories of development to the social outcomes of actual development processes. Unlike those who claim that the world of globalization is 'flat,' Sheppard, Porter, Faust, and Nagar illuminate the historical and contemporary interconnections that make for a highly variegated and uneven global topography.--Jim Glassman, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada - A 600-plus-page epic tour-de-force of geographical and historical analysis of development discourse and data. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, and postmodern critiques of history, power, and knowledge, it takes the reader on a historical world tour of development ideas and concepts and keeps her questioning fundamental disciplinary assumptions right across the social sciences throughout....There is a wealth of information within the pages of this second edition, with over 50 sidebars, many of which go over numerous pages, more than 100 graphs and figures, a further 50 plus tables and maps, as well as many photographs and substantial quotes supporting the arguments throughout....Much of this data and information have been updated, which is invaluable to placing the arguments presented in the text within the recent context, and is a huge credit to the authors and publishers of the book. --The Canadian Geographer, 8/10/2009ƒƒ A valuable work that historically traces how the unequal development of the world has been produced and accelerated by Western powers since the colonial era....With a new edition, one usually expects at most an update with new information and the addition of one or two new chapters. However, this book by far exceeds such an expectation....This intellectual work is highly important to fostering critical awareness of the world. The authors provide abundant concrete examples and explain complex theoretical points in simpler terms....This book is crucial to diagnosing the ills of our world of difference in terms of how the Third World has been reduced to a marginalized position and how the Western development model has been spread, enforced, and maintained as a monolithic template. This is the book's enduring value for radical geographers. A World of Difference allows us a means to teach critical insights about neoliberal globalization and developmentalism to our students, some of whom may dream of going to work for international organizations like the World Bank to help the Third World. --Human Geography, 8/10/2009ƒƒ This book is the second edition of an impressive organized collection of topics on development and globalization....This second edition expands the focus of analysis by adding two contributing authors, who provide other theoretical perspectives (feminist and postcolonial analyses) to the initial use of political economy. Hopefully this accessible and valuable book will inspire students to get firsthand experiences on development and the consequences of globalization in cities and villages of Asia, Africa, and Latin America and critically reflect on the consequences of development and globalization. --European Planning Studies, 8/10/2009Table of ContentsI. Differentiated Ways of Knowing1. Introduction2. Measuring, Describing, and Mapping Difference and Development3. Knowing the Third World: Colonial Encounters4. Knowing the Third World: The Development Decades5. The Third World and Neoliberal GlobalizationII. Differentiated Livelihoods and the Nonhuman World6. Geographies of Population: Discourse and Politics7. Contested Environments: The Entanglements of Environment, Development, and Globalization8. Disease and Health9. Uncertain Rains: The Atmospheric Energy Cycle and the Hydrologic Cycle10. Other Challenges to Rural Livelihood: Soils, Vegetation, and Pests11. Nature as Latitudinal Trickster: The Carbon Cycle and Plant Growth12. The Management of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems: The Pokot of West Central Kenya—An Indigenous Knowledge SystemIII. Differentiated Social Relations Encountering Global Strategies13. The Historical Geography of Colonialism and the Slave Trade14. Colonialism as Spatial and Labor Control System15. The End of Colonialism and the Promise of Free Trade16. Trading Primary Commodities17. Peripheral Industrialization: Paths and Strategies18. The Earth's Crust as Resource19. Urbanization, Migration, and Spatial Polarization20. Transnational Production21. Foreign Branch Plants and Economic Growth22. Money and Global Finance Markets, with Bongman Seo23. Borrowing Money: Aid, Debt, and Dependence, with Bongman Seo24. Toward Different Worlds

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Book SynopsisAuthoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic GIS concepts and tools are explained, including ways to access and manage spatial databases. The book presents state-of-the-art methods for mapping and analyzing data on population, health events, risk factors, and health services, and for incorporating geographical knowledge into planning and policy. Numerous maps, diagrams, and real-world applications are featured. The companion Web page provides lab exercises with data that can be downloaded for individual or course use. New to This Edition *Incorporates major technological advances, such as Internet-based mapping systems and the rise of data from cell phones and other GPS-enabled devices. *Chapter on health disparities. *Expanded coverage of public participation GIS. *Companion Web page has all-new content. *Goes beyond the United States to encompass an international focus.Trade ReviewCromley and McLafferty have done it again! They’ve written the most comprehensive text available on GIS applications for public health. The last several years have seen rapid growth in public health applications of GIS, technological developments in mapping and imagery, and the availability of public health data, all of which are addressed in the book. Other updates in the second edition include reorganization of material, international applications, and a chapter on health disparities. The authors have outdone themselves with the clarity, completeness, and relevance of this book. Whether you’re new to the practice of public health GIS or an experienced GIS user, you will benefit from the wealth of material provided.–Carol Hanchette, Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of LouisvilleCromley and McLafferty provide a thorough overview of the field. I have used the first edition as a text in my graduate-level introductory spatial methods class, and plan to use the second edition as well. I appreciate the book's extensive coverage of important information about GIS applications in public health research and practice.–Robin Puett, School of Public Health, University of Maryland A much-needed introduction to GIS for students, faculty, and professionals preparing to research or practice in public health. The second edition illustrates many new developments in the use of geospatial data, including spatial analysis methods now widely available on the Internet. It defines the terminology of GIS and shows how spatial analysis methods are used to understand and improve health. International in scope, the book covers mapping of disease rates, access to health services, environmental hazards and their health effects, diffusion of infectious diseases, community influences on health behavior, and the ecology of vector-borne diseases.–Gerard Rushton, Department of Geography, University of Iowa GIS and Public Health was already one of the most respected texts in the field, and the second edition does not disappoint. The authors have retained the strengths of the original–clear, concise, and practical introductions to GIS, geospatial data, spatial thinking, and spatial analysis in public health science–and have added important new content. I have found this text more rewarding to use in teaching and to consult for my own work than any other single book in the field.–Stephen A. Matthews, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University -Cromley and McLafferty have made substantial but worthwhile revisions ultimately adding over 150 new pages of material and revising much of the original text….A substantial addition to the volume comes in the form of online support for the more practical aspects of the book. Given the applied nature of topics covered, the addition of exercises providing examples for readers to work through and try out concepts themselves is welcomed….A highly commendable book for students and practitioners alike….It performs a good overview role with plenty of references.--International Planning Studies, 5/16/2013ƒƒ I can think of no better geographers than Ellen Cromley and Sara McLafferty for presenting the methodologies and research findings of GIS for health. --The Geographical Review, 9/22/2011ƒƒ Comprehensive, well-structured, well-illustrated, and well-written....Instructors will find a wealth of illustrative examples of applications. --Economic Geography, 9/22/2011Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Geographic Information Systems 2. Spatial Data 3. Spatial Databases for Public Health 4. Mapping Health Information 5. Analyzing Spatial Clustering of Health Events 6. Analyzing Environmental Hazards 7. Analyzing the Risk and Spread of Infectious Diseases 8. Exploring the Ecology of Vector-Borne Disease 9. Analyzing Access to Health Services 10. Locating Health Services 11. Health Disparities 12. Public Participation GIS and Community Health

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Book SynopsisA collaborative, co-created atlas aimed at expanding knowledge on displacement and resistance in the Bay Area

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Book SynopsisThe Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. Coming to Grips with Malaria in the New Millennium presents an innovative strategic framework for relieving the burden that malaria imposes on society through the implementation of tried and tested anti-malarial interventions designed to improve health nationally and to promote economic development locally. Recommendations include early diagnosis, treatment with effective anti-malarial medicines, the use of insecticide treated nets, indoor residual spraying, managing the environment, improving housing, extending health education and improving monitoring and evaluation systems.Table of ContentsForeword -- Working group members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- 1 Introduction -- The Millennium Development Goal and target for malaria Organization of this report -- 2 The resurgence and burden of malaria -- Health burden -- Economic and social burden -- 3 Review of major initiatives and institutional policies for malaria control -- Global Malaria Eradication Program -- Global Malaria Control Strategy -- Harare Declaration on Malaria Prevention and Control -- Multilateral Initiative on Malaria -- Roll Back Malaria initiative -- Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria -- Medicines for Malaria Venture -- Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria -- 4 Malaria control strategies -- Disease prevention strategies -- Disease management strategies -- Epidemic prevention and control strategies -- Information, education, and communication strategies -- Monitoring and evaluation -- 5 Examples of successful scale-up of malaria control programs -- Tigray region of Ethiopia -- Highlands of Madagascar -- Viet Nam -- South Africa -- Tanzania -- Lessons learned -- 6 Priority challenges fo r scaling up malaria control program s -- Strengthening health systems -- Human resources capacity -- Social mobilization of communities -- Partnerships -- Programmatic challenges -- 7 Developing a global plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target fo r malaria -- Conditions for achieving a sustained impact -- Developing a global plan for reducing the burden of malaria -- Components of a global plan -- Needs assessment: costing and financing -- Resource mobilization: needs assessment at the global level -- Resource mobilization: needs assessment at the country level— Ethiopia -- 8 Monitoring and evaluation -- Monitoring and evaluation of health programs -- Malaria-related Millennium Development Goal, targets, and indicators -- Coverage measures -- Main approaches to data collection for monitoring malaria control -- Monitoring the effectiveness of antimalarials and insecticides -- Developing geographic information systems and remote sensing -- Cost-effectiveness of service provision -- Linkage of malaria monitoring with poverty alleviation -- 9 Research and development to meet current and future needs -- Antimalarial medicine development -- Malaria diagnostics -- Malaria management in young children -- Malaria vector -- Malaria vaccines -- 10 Recommendations -- 1. Establish a realistic and measurable target on malaria -- 2. Enhance political commitment at country and global levels -- 3. Strengthen health systems at national and district levels -- 4. Develop human resources for program implementation -- 3. Promote social mobilization and community participation -- 6. Provide effective antimalarial supplies and commodities -- 7. Apply an integrated package of interventions -- 8. Scale up malaria control efforts to national level -- 9. Promote social and economic development -- 10. Incorporate malaria prevention and treatment approaches into school curricula -- 11. Develop surveillance systems for early detection of malaria epidemics -- 12. Promote partnerships for malaria control -- 13. Secure affordable access to the latest medical and therapeutic discoveries -- 14. Invest in research and development on malaria control tools -- Appendix 1 Estimated costs of scaled-up malaria control efforts in Ethiopia ,2005-15 -- Notes -- References.

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Book Synopsis�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles. Written by leading experts in the fields of urban development and environmental planning, the book reviews the urban environmental shifts that have shaped today�s challenges, and examines conditions and problems in the urban centres of low-, middle- and high-income countries. Case studies address such economically diverse cities as Accra, New Delhi, Mexico City and Manchester, while thematic chapters explore issues including water, sanitation and transportation. The book concludes by exploring and analysing different scales of governance. The editors argue that we should not rely solely on local governance to address local burdens like poor sanitation, nor depend only on global governance for global challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions, but that scale is crucial in both understanding the problems and devising successful responses. Published with UNU-IAS and IIED.Trade Review'With chapters by some of the most thoughtful international urban environmental scholars ... [and] many concrete examples from around the world, this volume advances the science by addressing issues of scale in both its meanings; the geographical scale of environmental interactions as well as the difficulties involved in scaling (overcoming) the many challenges of designing and promoting sustainable human environments worldwide' Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USATable of ContentsScaling the Urban Environmental Challenge * Urban Transitions and the Spatial Displacement of Environmental Burdens * Variations of Urban Environmental Transitions: The Experiences of Rapidly Developing Asia-Pacific Cities * In Pursuit of a Healthy Urban Environment in Low- and Middle-income Nations * Improving Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Health, Access and Boundaries * Poverty and the Environmental Health Agenda in a Low-income City: The Case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana * Dynamics of Growth and Process of Degenerated Peripheralization in Delhi: An Analysis of Socio-economic Segmentation and Differentiation in Micro-environments * Motorization in Rapidly Developing Cities * A Comparative Perspective on Urban Transport and Emerging Environmental Problems in Middle-income Cities * Fixing Environmental Agendas in Mexico * In Pursuit of the Sustainable City * The Metabolism of Urban Affluence: Notes from the Greater Manchester City-region * Locating the Local Agenda : Preserving Public Interest in the Evolving Urban World * Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be part of the mass known as 'The Poor'? What visions are conjured up in our minds when someone is labelled 'Muslim'? What assumptions do we make about their needs, values and politics? How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops the labels, what power do they carry and how do such labels affect how people are treated? This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labelled and categorized, and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast international experience and current theory, the authors examine how labels are constituted and applied by a variety of actors, including development policy makers, practitioners and researchers. The book exposes the intense and complex politics involved in processes of labelling, and highlights how the outcomes of labelling can undermine stated development goals. Importantly, one of the book's principal objectives is to suggest how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labelling and encourage processes of 'counter-labelling', to enhance poverty reduction and human rights, and to tackle issues of race relations and global security. The Afterword encapsulates these ideas ands provides a good basis for reflection, further debate and action.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Labelling, Power and Accountability: How and Why �Our� Categories Matter * Labels, Welfare Regimes and Intermediation: Contesting Formal Power * Labelling People for Aid * The Politics of Representing �the Poor� * Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees * When Labels Stigmatize: Encounters with �Street Children� and �Restavecs� in Haiti * Poverty as a Spectator Sport * �Muslim Women� and �Moderate Muslims�: British Policy and the Strengthening of Religious Absolutist Control over Gender Development * Black Umbrellas: Labelling and Articulating Development in the Indonesian Mass Media * Labelling �Works�: The Language and Politics of Caste and Tribe in India * Exploring the Intersection of Racial Labels, Rainbow Citizenship and Citizens� Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Afterword: Changing Practice * Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2008, La Faim et la Sant is a valuable contribution to the field of Environment and Sustainability.Trade Review'La faim et la sant� s'appuie sur une exp�rience pragmatique longue de plusieurs d�cennies, acquise dans le cadre de la r�duction des 'urgences alimentaires' et des efforts visant � rompre le cercle vicieux de la pauvret� et de la maladie.' Paul Farmer, Docteur en m�decine, Harvard Medical School et Partners in Health 'La faim et la sant� s'appuie sur une exp�rience pragmatique longue de plusieurs d�cennies, acquise dans le cadre de la r�duction des 'urgences alimentaires' et des efforts visant � rompre le cercle vicieux de la pauvret� et de la maladie. Il fournit - aux nations ainsi qu'aux organismes normatifs internationaux qui cherchent � r�aliser les objectifs du Mill�naire pour le d�veloppement - des recommandations solidement fond�es pour l'�laboration des politiques qu'il faudra mettre en oeuvre ... Nous sommes extr�mement redevables � ceux qui ont r�dig� La faim et la sant� et � ceux qui y ont contribu�. Que ce rapport, et les engagements �crits pris en faveur du commerce �quitable, de la r�forme agraire et de l'am�lioration des pratiques agricoles, soient pour nous tous une 'feuille de route', dont le respect nous permettra de faire en sorte que la faim au XXIe si�cle soit per�ue, premi�rement, comme une obsc�nit� et, deuxi�mement, comme une maladie mondiale que nous sommes d'ores et d�j� en mesure de gu�rir.' Paul Farmer, Docteur en m�decine, Harvard Medical School et Partners in Health 'Si la mondialisation apporte des possibilit�s sans pr�c�dent d'acc�der � la richesse, elle creuse aussi le foss� entre ceux qui jouissent avec dignit� de leur plein droit � la vie et ceux qui en sont priv�s. Le PAM compte plus de personnel intervenant dans les r�gions du monde touch�es par des crises que toute autre organisation. Fruit de l'exp�rience sur le terrain, ce rapport d�montre sans �quivoque que la faim, la maladie et la pauvret� sont inextricablement li�es. Qui plus est, il prouve qu'il existe des solutions pratiques � cette face inacceptable du d�veloppement. Il s'agit d'une lecture essentielle pour quiconque travaille aupr�s des populations marginalis�es, que ce soit dans les quartiers d�sh�rit�s du Nord ou dans les zones de conflit du Sud.' Peter Walker, Titulaire de la chaire Irwin H. Rosenberg de nutrition et s�curit� humaine, �cole Friedman des sciences et politiques de la nutrition, Universit� TuftsTable of ContentsLe Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies -- Remerciements -- Avant-propos -- Note d'introduction -- Preface -- APERCU GENERAL -- PREMIERE PARTIE: LA FAIM ET LA SAMt DANS LE MONDE -- Introduction -- 1.1 La faim, la sante et le bien-etre -- Intermezzo 1: Description generate des carences en micronutriments -- 1.2 Quelles sont les personnes les plus vulnerables? -- Intermezzo 2: Les femmes et I'elimination de la faim - un lien inextricable -- 1.3 Suivi des OMD relatifs a la faim et a la sante -- 1.4 Accelerer les progres en faisant les bons choix -- Intermezzo 3: La faim et la maladie dans les situations de crise -- DEUXIEME PARTIE: LA DfzNUTRITION ET LA MALADIE - LEURS EFFETS TOUT AU LONG DU -- CYCLE DE LA VIE -- 2.1 La denutrition et la maladie: un lien etroit -- 2.2 Examen plus approfondi de la denutrition et de la maladie -- Intermezzo 4: Le sida et la faim - enjeux et actions -- Intermezzo 5: L'aide alimentaire et le traitement de la tuberculose -- Intermezzo 6: La transition nutritionnelle en Amerique latine - I'experience du Programme du Conseil national chilien des jardins d'enfants -- 2.3 Menaces emergentes -- TROISIEME PARTIE: LE DEVELOPPEMENT NATIONAL - ENGAGEMENTS ET CHOIX POLITIQUES -- 3.1 La faim nuit au developpement humain -- 3.2 Des solutions efficaces -- Intermezzo 7: Les Sprinkles - un moyen novateur et economiquement efficace de fournir des micronutriments aux enfants -- 3.3 Les bons choix politiques -- Intermezzo 8: Partenariats visant a eradiquer la denutrition infantile en Amerique latine et -- aux CaraTbes -- Intermezzo 9: De la recherche a Taction -- QUATRIEME PARTIE: LA MARCHE A SUIVRE - VERS UN MONDE LIB£r£ DE LA FAIM -- 4.1 La marche a suivre: dix actions cles -- Intermezzo 10: Priorite a la nutrition en ThaTlande -- CINQUIEME PARTIE: RECUEIL DE REFERENCES -- Apergu - notes techniques -- Tableau 1 - A quoi ressemble un monde en proie a la faim? -- Tableau 2 - Combien de personnes souffrent de la faim tout au long de leur vie? -- Tableau 3 - A quoi ressemble un monde en proie a la maladie? -- Tableau 4 - Combien de personnes souffrent de la maladie durant leur vie? -- Tableau 5 - Qui est menace par la faim et la maladie dans les situations de crise? -- Tableau 6a - Combien de personnes souffrent de la faim invisible et de maladies infantiles?. . -- Tableau 6b - Combien de personnes souffrent de maladies infectieuses? -- Tableau 7 - Combien de personnes sont touchees par des catastrophes naturelles? -- Tableau 8 - Quelles solutions existent-t-il pour lutter contre la faim et la maladie? -- Tableau 9 - Quelles ressources sont consacrees a la reduction de la faim et de la maladie? -- Tableau 10 - Progres accomplis dans la realisation des OMD d'ici 2015 -- SIXIEME PARTIE: ANNEXES -- Sigles et abreviations -- Glossaire -- Bibliographie -- Notes -- Etablissement des couts des solutions essentielles -- Methodologie de cartographie.

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Book SynopsisIn most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution and the use of very poor quality water for crop irrigation especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can create significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw. Wastewater Irrigation and Health approaches this serious problem from a practical and realistic perspective, addressing the issues of health risk assessment and reduction in developing country settings. The book therefore complements other books on the topic of wastewater which focus on high-end treatment options and the use of treated wastewater. This book moves the debate forward by covering also the common reality of untreated wastewater, greywater and excreta use. It presents the state-of-the-art on quantitative risk assessment and low-cost options for health risk reduction, from treatment to on-farm and off-farm measures, in support of the multiple barrier approach of the 2006 guidelines for safe wastewater irrigation published by the World Health Organization. The 38 authors and co-authors are international key experts in the field of wastewater irrigation representing a mix of agronomists, engineers, social scientists and public health experts from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. The chapters highlight experiences across the developing world with reference to various case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Mexico and the Middle East. The book also addresses options for resource recovery and wastewater governance, thus clearly establishes a connection between agriculture, health and sanitation, which is often the missing link in the current discussion on 'making wastewater an asset'.Trade ReviewThis book represents the best, modern innovative thinking on the topic and symbolizes an important turning point in the history of wastewater reuse in irrigation as a major contributor to water and nutrient conservation, public health and welfare.' Professor Hillel Shuval, Hadassah Academic College and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 'This is a tremendously useful book with its clear focus on developing countries where wastewater treatment does not work. It is also a great resource for students.' Sasha Koo-Oshima, FAO This book is likely to be of interest to decision makers, consultants and researchers who are looking for practical tools to improve the selection of wastewater management strategies particularly in countries of the global south, and where water scarcity is critical. The lively and informative style makes it an accessible and easy read...definitely a worthwhile investment.' Barbara Evans, Waterlines 'The volume is successful in moving the state of knowledge beyond these basic perceptions and documenting methods for safe wastewater irrigation.' International Journal of Water Resources Development 'This book provides great insights into appropriate solution development for anyone interested in closed loop or cradle-to-cradle design and presents an approach for how to apply these concepts to a complex and culturally sensitive topic.' Ecosystem MarketplaceTable of ContentsPreface Foreword List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Part I: Setting the Stage 1: Wastewater, Sludge and Excreta Use in Developing Countries: An Overview 2: Assessing and Mitigating Wastewater Related Health Risks in Low-Income Countries: An Introduction Part II: Risks and Risk Assessment 3: Risk Analysis and Epidemiology: The 2006 WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture 4: Approaches to Evaluate and Develop Health Risk-Based Standards Using Available Data 5: Tools for Risk Analysis: Updating the 2006 WHO Guidelines 6: Non-Pathogenic Tradeoffs of Wastewater Irrigation 7: Risk Analysis Integrating Livelihood and Economic Impacts of Wastewater Irrigation on Health Part III: Minimizing Health Risks 8: Wastewater Treatment for Pathogen Removal and Nutrient Conservation: Suitable Systems for Use in Developing Countries 9: Low-Cost Options for Pathogen Reduction and Nutrient Recovery from Faecal Sludge 10: Farm-Based Measures for Reducing Microbiological Health Risks for Consumers from Informal Wastewater-Irrigated Agriculture 11: Farm-Based Measures for Reducing Human and Environmental Health Risks from Chemical Constituents in Wastewater 12: Applying the Multiple-Barrier Approach for Microbial Risk Reduction in the Post-Harvest Sector of Wastewater Irrigated Vegetables 13: Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Interventions for Diarrhoea Disease Reduction among Consumers of Wastewater-Irrigated Lettuce in Ghana Part IV: Wastewater Governance and Adoption of Risk Reduction Options 14: Challenging Conventional Approaches to Wastewater Use in Agriculture 15: Designing Reuse-Oriented Sanitation Infrastructure: The Design for Service Planning Approach 16: Facilitating the Adoption of Food Safety Interventions in the Street Food Sector and on Farm 17: Harnessing Farmers' Knowledge and Perceptions for Health Risk Reduction in Wastewater Irrigated Agriculture 18: Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Managing Wastewater Use in Agriculture Part V: Conclusions and Outlook 19: Wastewater Irrigation and Health: Challenges and Outlook for Mitigating Risks in Low-Income Countries

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Book SynopsisPopulation growth, reproductive health and reproductive rights are amongst the most pressing issues facing governments and the international community. Since the world's governments agreed for the first time on far-reaching and enlightened population policies at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, a good deal of progress has been made on these issues, but major challenges remain. This fully updated edition of Creating a New Consensus on Population charts international progress on efforts to address population and development, reproductive health, reproductive rights, religion, contraception and the empowerment of women. Historical coverage includes the lead up process to the ICPD, the conference itself and the global consensus and the ICPD Programme of Action that resulted. The book then turns to how population issues have developed over the past decade and a half including follow-up and implementation at the international level by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other UN agencies and organizations. Key international events are covered including the 1999 ICPD+5, Millennium Summit 2000, ICPD+10 and the 2005 MDG+5 as well as relevant regional events. The book also examines the reorientation of policies and programmes and implementation at national levels across the world. Crucially, it looks at emerging issues and partnerships including the increasing role of NGOs, women's groups, youth groups, foundations, public-private partnerships and other non-state stakeholders. Written by Jyoti Shankar Singh, former ICPD Executive Coordinator, this is the definitive account of how the international community has engaged with population issues and policies and it offers insight into both the ongoing challenges as well as how an international consensus can be forged on crucial global issues. It is essential reading for all those involved in population, health and development issues and policies world-wide.Trade Review'No one interested in the field of the population issue and reproductive health should miss this important book. This is the right moment for an update' Dr. Nicolaas Biegman, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN, 1992-1997 'Fifteen years ago, the international community agreed on a vision for achieving population stabilization and sustainable development through universal access to family planning and reproductive health; gender equality in education, and fulfillment of the rights of women and men to economic, social and environmental security. Jyoti Singh played an instrumental role in organizing the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). In this book, Dr. Singh reminds us that the ICPD's promise remains valid, but unfulfilled, and details how the world can overcome the barriers that stubbornly persist, especially for women. Senator Timothy E. Wirth, US Under-Secretary of State, 1995-1997; President, UN Foundation 'Jyoti Shankar Singh in this revised edition not only reminds and updates us on the ICPD process but takes us through the intriguing journey of 'The Politics of Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights and Women's Empowerment,' as he aptly puts it. This book is recommended reading for all - from politicians and planners to professionals and field workers.It is comprehensive and forward looking while objective and frank in addressing the challenges, constraints and realities of implementing the Cairo consensus. I sincerely hope that Jyoti Singh will continue his efforts to map the process as countries strive to achieve the ICPD and MDG goals by 2015' Dr. Raj Karim, Regional Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation, East and South East Asia and Oceania Region,Kuala Lumput, MalaysiaTable of Contents1. Bucharest, Mexico and Cairo 2. From Family Planning to Reproductive Health 3. Population and Development 4. The Empowerment of Women 5. Partnership with the Non-Governmental Sector 6. Mobilizing Resources for Population Programmes 7. The Cairo Agenda and the International Community 8. Institutional Response 9. Implementing the Cairo Agenda Notes And References Bibliography Appendix 1: Chronology of Major Events Relating to International Conference on Population and Development

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Book SynopsisChina is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city - is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century. Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful - even exultant - futurism, Shanghai recalls the older and much criticised project of imagining, planning and building the modern metropolis. Today, among Westerners, at least, the very idea of the futuristic city - with its multilayered skyways, domestic robots and flying cars - seems doomed to the realm of nostalgia, the sadly comic promise of a future that failed to materialise. Shanghai Future maps the city of tomorrow as it resurfaces in a new time and place. It searches for the contours of an unknown and unfamiliar futurism in the city's street markets as well as in its skyscrapers. For though it recalls the modernity of an earlier age, Shanghai's current re-emergence is only superficially based on mimicry. Rather, in seeking to fulfill its ambitions, the giant metropolis is reinventing the very idea of the future itself. As it modernises, Shanghai is necessarily recreating what it is to be modern.Trade Review'This is a fascinating and highly original book - a difficult achievement given how much has been written about Shanghai in recent years by both journalists and scholars. The author contributes not only to the literature on contemporary China and conversations about the nature of Chinese modernity, but also to interdisciplinary debates in urban studies and philosophical and literary discussions of the future. Shanghai Future should find interested readers in fields ranging from Chinese studies to urban studies, cultural geography to science fiction studies.' * Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know *'In the boom of writing on Shanghai Greenspan's work stands out for its depth and originality. There is much written about Shanghai's past, but this original text explores how Shanghai represents its own and our collective human futures. A fascinating collection of musings and empirical explorations of the projection of the future onto Shanghai's cityscapes.' * James Farrer, Professor of Sociology at Sophia University and author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai *'This is a fascinating narrative of Shanghai's urban and cultural changes, reflecting the process of Chinese ubiquitous modernisation. Anna Greenspan's keen observations on the history of Shanghai and its current transformation provide insightful understandings of the making of modernity in China, like Paris to modern capitalism. The specificity of urban cultural studies is artfully examined from a perspective of national development. A book which profoundly enriches China's urban studies.' * Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London and author of China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism *'Shanghai is a global metropolis that constantly seeks to outdo itself. Those who arrive in the city for the first time are routinely shocked and awed by its dizzying skyline, bursting urbanism, and glaring ambitions. Anna Greenspan uses this adopted home to delve into the intriguing question of the future city. Drawing on a wide range of materials and first-hand observations, Greenspan convincingly shows how Shanghai and China will continue to reshape the world and redefine our imaginations of the future.' * Tong Lam, author of Abandoned Futures and A Passion for Facts *

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Book SynopsisThis title focuses on Haiti from an international perspective. Haiti has endured undue influence from successive French and US governments; its fragile 'democracy' has been founded on subordination to and dominance of foreign powers. This book examines Haiti's position within the global economic and political order, and how the more dominant members of the international community have, in varying ways, exploited the country over the last 200 years.Trade Review"a “must-read” for scholars interested in Haitian history and politics as well as in the intersection of class and race relations", Robert Fatton Jr., New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Capitalist World-Economy, the Fetishism of Commodities, and the Social Geography of Race: A Reply to Michel Foucault 2. Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution, and Negritude: A Critical Assessment of Aimé Césaire's Interpretation 3. From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens 4. The Transition to Democracy and the Demise of Color Politics in Haiti 5. The World Bank and Haiti: Abetting Dictatorship, Undermining Democracy 6. Class, Power, Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake

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Book SynopsisAs geography has been influenced by such themes as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have had to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This text provides students with an aid to understanding the complexities and subtleties of these new ideas. It presents short essays exploring the key concepts in cultural geography and are written by leading practitioners. The essays range from questions that have recently emerged to more established ideas that warrant critical examination. The book should be useful to students of cultural geography and related disciplines.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a flavour of the quality and breadth of the Journal into one volume that spans its history. It includes 16 classic papers from the archive, some of which will be well known to the cartographic community, while others may not be as obvious.Trade Review"I definitely recommend this book. It is a valuable addition to the history of cartography in the past 50 years, giving, as the editors desired, the “flavor” of the period, and also serves as a starting point for researchers in cartography. It will be a much used resource for those in seminars of mapping sciences."- Judith A. Tyner, California State University, Long BeachTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Automation in the Preparation of Thematic Maps 3. Reflections on 'Automation in the Preparation of Thematic Mapping' 4. Visual Perception and Map Design 5. Reflections on 'Visual Perception and Map Design' 6. The Map as a Communication System 7. Reflections on 'The Map as a Communication System' 8. Topographical Relief Depiction by Hachures with Computer and Plotter 9. Reflections on 'Topographic Relief Depiction by Hachures with Computer and Plotter' 10. A Knowledge Based System for Cartographic Symbol Design 11. Reflections on 'A Knowledge Based System for Cartographic Symbol Design' 12. The Role of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 13. Reflections on 'The Role of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain' 14. Line Generalization by Repeated Elimination of Points 15. Reflections on 'Line Generalization by Repeated Elimination of Points' 16. Map Design for Census Mapping 17. Reflections on 'Map Design for Census Mapping' 18. ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps 19. Reflections on ‘ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps’ 20. Mapping the Results of Geographically Weighted Regression 21. Reflections on 'Mapping the Results of Geographically Weighted Regression' 22. Cultures of Map Use 23. Reflections on 'Cultures of Map Use' 24. Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites 25. Reflections on 'Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites' 26. Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections 27. Reflections on 'Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections' 28. Stylistic Diversity in European State 1:50 000 Topographic Maps 29. Reflections on 'Stylistic Diversity in European State 1:50 000 Topographic Maps' 30. Visualization of Origins, Destinations and Flows with OD Maps 31. Reflections on 'Visualization of Origins, Destinations and Flow with OD Maps' 32. Reasserting Design Relevance in Cartography: Some Concepts 33. Reasserting Design Relevance in Cartography: Some Examples 34. Reflections of 'Reasserting Design Relevance in Cartography'

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Book SynopsisThis study presents an account of electromagnetic phenomena in the earth's crust immediately preceding a tectonic earthquake. The results of experiments performed throughout the last 20 years using data collected from the satellite and ground-based observations are analyzed and form the basis of various conceptual explanations of seismo-electromagnetic phenomena. The authors also present their own theoretical model of the generation of electromagnetic emission in the earth's crust. The tendency for earthquake-prone areas to be used for modern urban and industrial development underlines the significance of this monograph. Its applications are extensive, including defrectoscopy, monitoring stress in mines, and the development of electromagnetic methods of earthquake prediction; and should interest geologists, geophysicists, and specialists in solid-state physics.Table of ContentsMechano-electric conversion in stressed solids; field observations and data processing techniques; models of anomalous electromagnetic emission; seismo-ionospheric coupling; elementary sources; major problems in research on seismo-electromagnetic phenomena

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Book SynopsisThis open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world. Whether it is within the four walls of a school, in a nearby multilingual neighborhood, in a virtual telecollaborative space, or in any other location where languages may be learned, this volume highlights different configurations of learning spaces, the leveraging of real-world places for critical learning, and ways to productively ‘dislocate’ language learners from preconceived notions and standardized experiences. Together, these elements create conditions for a language and literacy pedagogy that can be said to be robustly spatialized: linguistically and culturally complex, geographically situated, historically informed, dialogically realized, and socially engaged.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction, Dubreil, Malinowski, and Maxim Reimagining learning spaces through the linguistic landscape “Building the politeness repertoire through the linguistic landscape,” Elyse Ritchey (University of California, Berkeley) “Exploring Language and Culture in the Novice Chinese Classroom through Linguistic Landscape,” Fei Yu, Aleidine J. Moeller, and Jia Lu and (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Multilingual landscapes in telecollaboration: A Spanish-American exchange,” Margarita Vinagre (Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain) and Reyes Llopis-Garcia (Columbia University) Places made and remade through learning in the LL “Agency and policy: Who controls the linguistic landscape of a school?” Rob Troyer (Western Oregon University) “Uncovering Spanish Harlem: Ethnographic linguistic landscape projects in an advanced content-based Spanish course,” Juan Pablo Jimenez Caicedo (Columbia University) “Exploring the language capital of Tucson,” Christian Ruvalcaba and Michelle Aguilera (University of Arizona) Spatialization as pedagogical dialogues in place “Educational perspective on community languages in the linguistic landscape: Russian and Arabic,” Olga Bever (University of Arizona) and Mahmoud Azaz (University of Arizona) “Multilingual linguistic landscapes of New York City as a pedagogical tool in a Psychology classroom,” Irina Sekerina and Patricia Brooks (College of Staten Island) “Indigenous conceptual cartographies and language pedagogy: Vibrant modalities across semiotic domains,” Michael Zimmerman (Indian Community School of Wisconsin), Margaret Noodin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patricia Mayes (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Bernard Perley (University of British Columbia)

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Gendering Urban Theory.- 3. Women and Public Space Beyond the West.- 4. Case Studies of Sanandaj and Sulaimani.- 5. Case Studies of Vienna and Cologne.- 6. Cross-cultural Comparisons.- 7. Conclusion and the Way Forward.- References.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Preface by Tetsuya Iseki:A Survey of London was originally published by John Stow (c. 1525–1605) in 1598. Stow was a chronicler and antiquary who edited literary works and archaeological texts (his first publication was Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, newly edited in 1561). In 1603 Stow published a new edition with corrections and additions, and it achieved immediate popular success. Even after his death, the work was reprinted in 1618 (Anthony Munday’s new edition), and again in 1633, but then disappeared from print until the end of the century. (The 1603 edition which was re-edited by C. L. Kingsford was issued by Oxford University Press in 1908, and later reprinted as the facsimile edition in 2000.)After the Great Fire of 1666, the state of London depicted and recorded in Stow’s Survey was greatly transformed. In 1694 Richard Blome (who published a new edition of William Camden’s Britannia) made an attempt to publish his new edition of Stow’s Survey with maps and many additions to describe the rebuilding of London after the Fire, but this was not successful. In 1702 John Strype (1643–1737), who had already achieved fame as an editor of historical and biographical documents, started editing Blome’s abortive work and created a new edition to answer the need for a current version of Stow’s Survey. Strype was said to have completed his edition (in two folio volumes) by November 1707, while a similar, rival book, A New View of London by Edward Hatton, was going to be published the following year. The booksellers gave up Strype’s Survey because Hatton’s publication was a smaller and cheaper edition. As it turned out, however, Hatton’s View of London could not satisfy the demand for a more scholarly updated edition of Stow’s Survey, and Strype’s project was revived in 1716 and finally published in December 1720.Strype’s Survey of London is basically an enlarged edition of Stow’s Survey, but the main body of the text and the maps are essentially taken from Blome’s 1694 edition. A mere reading of Strype’s Survey will reinforce the claim that the work is full of information about the late Stuart capital: the economics, politics, religion, architecture, and moral life of his day. Maps and plates of Strype’s Survey retain vivid visual details and, more than any other previous attempts, successfully remap the prosperous state of London. Pre-Fire maps were pictorial bird’s-eye views, in which buildings and landmarks are privileged over topographical accuracy, but alleys and yards are often obscured. The two-dimensional maps were published by John Ogilby and William Morgan after the fire in 1677. A large number of illustrations in Strype’s new edition show the details of the capital’s parishes and wards, including important historical buildings within and without the City both in two dimensions and bird’s-eye views.Strype’s Survey of London was priced at six guineas, and some 700 copies were published. Now the original is rarely found and the condition of the copies in the British Library or the ones in some other big libraries are not sound enough for reprint use. The present reprint is from my personal unspoiled copy of the 1720 edition. All texts and visual images derive from this copy. The work was originally published in two volumes: Volume 1 contains Books 1–3 and Volume 2 contains Books 4–6, plus appendices. This reprinted edition consists of three volumes: Volume 1 (Books 1, 2), Volume 2 (Books 3, 4), and Volume 3 (Books 5, 6). The texts are in the original fount and all illustrations and maps are inserted as foldouts.Table of ContentsA Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of those Cities … now lastly corrected, by John STOW, Improved and very much Enlarged by JOHN STRYPE, In Six Books + Appendix + Index + 70 Engraved Maps and PlatesLondon: Printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock … 1720Volume 1New Preface by Tetsuya Iseki, Kwassui Women’s College, NagasakiPreface by John Strype / Stow’s Epistle Dedicatory / The Life of John Stow / A Catalogue of Authors, Records and Manuscripts / A List of Subscribers NamesThe First Book (c. 370pp.): General Description of the City of London, and Some Account of the CitizensThe Second Book (c. 290pp.): Particular Inspection into the Thirteen Wards on the East Side of WalbrookeVolume 2The Third Book (c. 290pp.): Inspection into the Twelve Wards on the West Side of WalbrookeThe Fourth Book (c. 120pp.): Inspection into the Ward of the Borough of Southwark, as also into the Suburbs of the City, and the Liberty of the Dutchy of LancasterVolume 3The Fifth Book (c. 460pp.): Account of the Government of the CityThe Sixth Book (c. 95pp.): Account of WestminsterAppendix (c. 170 pp.)Index (c. 25pp.)

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Book SynopsisGeorges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences? And why should there be so much misunderstanding? Most probably because the encounter of several disciplines is in fact the encounter of several different histories, and therefore of several different cultures, each interpreting the other according to the code dictated by its own culture. Inevitably geographers view other disciplines through their own cultural filter, and even a benevolent view remains 'ethnocentric'. It was in order to avoid such ethnocentricity that Femand Braudel called for more unity among the social sciences in 1958 : «l wish the social sciences . . . would stop discussing their respective differences so much . . . and instead look for common ground . . . on which to reach their first agreement. Personally I would call these ways : quantification, spatial awareness and 'longue duree'». In its place at the center of the social sciences, geography reduces all social reality to its spatial dimensions. Unfortunately, as a discipline, it considers itself all too often to be in a world of its own. There is a need in France for a figure like Vidal de la Blanche who could refocus attention away from issues of time and space, towards space and social reality. Geographic research will only take a step forward once it learns to address the problems facing all the sciences.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction. 1. Geography, history and social sciences: an introduction; G.B. Benko. Part II: Spatial Thinking in History. 2. Lefebvre, Lacan and the production of space; D. Gregory. 3. World time and world space, or just hegemonic time and space? M. Santos. 4. The language of space; M. Foucault. 5. Geography before geography: Pre-Hellenistic meteors and climates; J.-F. Staszak. 6. Geographical systems and the order of reality; M. Hampl. Part III: Cities and Landscapes in Time. 7. Landscapes as overlapping neighbourhoods; T. Hägerstrand. 8. The urban and the rural: an historical-geographic overview; C.M. Weaver. 9. Space and creativity. `Belle Epoque' Paris: genesis of a world-class artistic centre; P. Claval. 10. From Weimar to Nuremberg: social legitimacy as a spatial process in Germany, 1923-1938; U. Strohmayer. Part IV: Economics. 11. Contemporary acceleration: world-time and world-space; M. Santos. 12. Structural change, theories of regulation and regional development; M.F. Dunford, D. Perrons. 13. Theory of regulation and territory: an historical view; G.B. Benko. Part V: Politics. 14. Territoriality and the state; R.J. Johnston. 15. The spatial and the political: Close encounters; J. Levy. 16. Space and communication: a brief analytical look at the concept of space in the social theory; J. Lazar. Part IV: Conclusion. 17. Conclusion: the spatialization of thesocial sciences; U. Strohmayer. List of figures. Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisContaining 15 contributions. Vegetation associated with the protohistorical mound of 'Mouyssam II' (KNT2) in the Malian Sahel; Late Quaternary mammalian remains from central and eastern Sudan and their palaeoenvironmental significance; On the ages of humid Late Quaternary phases in southern African arid areas (Namibia, Botswana); Charcoal from Leliehoek shelter, eastern Orange Free State, South Africa.

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Book SynopsisThis annual covers excavation reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaeozoology. Topics include: island migration of early modern Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia; and Roman Iron Age plant husbandry at Peelo, the Netherlands.

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Book SynopsisComprises the proceedings of a conference on geotechnical waste management and contamination. Coverage ranges from remediation of contaminated sites to design and management of landfills. There are also papers dealing with case histories and research.Contents: Groundwater contamination flow; Regulatory, & non regulatory controls for contaminated sites; Remediation of contaminated sites; Ground modification techniques in waste management;

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Book SynopsisThis text illustrates the range of environmental geoscience mapping presently carried out around the world. Specialists in several countries have contributed a number of subdisciplinary and thematic topics including volcanic hazards, landslides, dolines, tsunamis, radon potential, medical geology, rainfall erosion, engineering geology, borehole stratigraphy, lake sediment geochemistry, aggregate resources and remote sensing. The collection, analysis and interpretation of data by geologists, geographers and engineers typically involves the presentation of information in map form, which can range from black/white to colour, 2-D to 3-D and paper copy to digital format illustrations. This volume reaffirms the global need for mapping geoscientific data.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Peter T. BobrowskyENGINEERING-GEOLOGY MAPPING OF SLOPES AND LANDSLIDES Jeffrey R. Keaton & Richard RinneREGOLITH-LANDFORM MAPPING: AN AUSTRALIAN APPROACH C.F. Pain, M.A. Craig, D.L. Gibson & J.R. WilfordENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING OF GEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS Gyözö Jordán & Andrea SzücsMULTILEVEL GEOLOGIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT MAPPING IN THE RIO GRANDE GORGE, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, USA William C. Haneberg, Paul W. Bauer & William X. Chávez, JrCALIFORNIA’S SEISMIC HAZARDS MAPPING ACT:GEOSCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY Charles R. RealSUBSURFACE GEOLOGIC MAPPING FROM DESCRIPTIVEAND PETROPHYSICAL BOREHOLE LOGS Larry N. SmithMAPPING WITH ALLOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING ALLUVIAL LANDSCAPES IN SOUTHERN BURGUNDY, FRANCE Eric C. StraffinMINERAL EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF LAKE SEDIMENT GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING IN THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA Stephen J. CookAGGREGATE POTENTIAL MAPPING Ross I. Kelly & Peter T. Bobrowsky‘HOT SPOTS’ AND ‘SENSITIVE AREAS’: CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING TO GEOENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING IN LEBANON Mohamad R. KhawlieGEOENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING IN SOUTHWESTERN SASKATCHEWAN: RAINFALL EROSION POTENTIAL D.J. SauchynBATHOMETRIC DATA FOR 2D AND 3D LANDSCAPE MAPPING C. Cam Muir, R.F. Watkins, The T. Ha & Michael A. VankoeveringeGEOENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING FOR GROUNDWATER PROTECTION IN ILLINOIS, USA Richard C. BergTHE DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF A GEOLOGIC SENSITIVITY MAP OF THE ROUGE RIVER WATERSHED IN SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN, USA Daniel T. RogersMAPPING RIVER CHANNELS AND VELOCITY FIELDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Brian L. CluerFLOODPLAIN HAZARD ASSESSMENT: APPLICATION TO FOREST LAND MANAGEMENT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA J.W. Schwab, D.L. Hogan & I. WeilandENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY MAPPING FOR URBAN PLANNING IN LITHUANIAJurgis ValiunasNATURAL HAZARD MAPPING IN SMALL URBAN AREAS,ANTIOQUIA, COLOMBIA Natalia Hoyos & Michel HermelinDIRECT AND INDIRECT ANTHROPOGENIC MODIFICATIONS IN THE BASIN OF MEXICO José Lugo, J. Juan Zamorano & Arturo García-RomeroENCOURAGING BETTER USE OF GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION BY PLANNERS AND DEVELOPERS IN ENGLAND B.R. MarkerGEOENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING APPLIED TO URBAN SETTLEMENTS: LA VALL DE GALLINERA, ALICANTE, SPAIN I. De Villota, M. De Luxán, J.L. Goy, I. Bustamante & C. ZazoMEDICAL GEOLOGY: METHOD, THEORY AND PRACTICE O. SelinusTHE GEOGRAPHY OF DISEASE FAMILY TREES:THE CASE OF SELENIUM Harold D. FosterMAP REPRESENTATION OF INDICATORS FOR ASSESSING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MINING IN THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT D. Limpitlaw & A.G. FabbriHAZARD RISK ASSESSMENT IN RUSSIA Irina Chesnokova, Gregory Koff & David HuntleyAN OVERVIEW OF VOLCANIC HAZARD MAPS:PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREC.J. HicksonGEOLOGICAL RADON POTENTIAL MAPPING J.D. Appleton & T.K. BallTHE MAKASSAR STRAIT TSUNAMIGENIC REGION, INDONESIA G.S. Prasetya, W.P. De Lange & T.R. HealyTSUNAMI DEPOSIT MAPPING AT SEASIDE, OREGON, USA Brooke K. Fiedorowicz & Curt D. PetersonACTUAL AND POTENTIAL DOLINE SUBSIDENCE HAZARD MAPPING: CASE STUDY IN THE EBRO BASIN (SPAIN) J.L. Simón-Gómez & M.A. SorianoMAPPING IN THE INTERPRETATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF FLOWSLIDES IN SENSITIVE QUATERNARY MUDDY SEDIMENTS Michael A. Carson & Marten GeertsemaQUANTITATIVE PREDICTION MODEL FOR LANDSLIDE HAZARD MAPPING: TSITIKA AND SCHMIDT CREEK WATERSHEDS, NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chang-Jo Chung, Peter T. Bobrowsky & Richard Guthrie

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Book SynopsisThis text deals with the subject of remote sensing, and the use of technology to aid environmental maintenance. Topics covered include a microcomputer based grassland local administration support system, and the monitoring of Himalayan cryosphere using satellite imagery.Table of ContentsGlobal deforestation and global land degradation; relative radiometric normalization of Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data using an automatic scattergram - controlled regression; land use and global environment conservation - a modelling approach; a microcomputer based grassland local administration support system; Earth science data and information technology network development in India; monitoring of Himalayan cryosphere using satellite imagery; assessing desertification in arid Australia using satellite data; the integration of remotely sensed data into GIS; automatic detection of forest fires using satellite images. (Part contents).

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Book SynopsisFuture plans of the European Commission are presented in this volume. Other themes covered include: land applications; ice; water; ocean and coastal management; methods; models; systems aspects; and a section on data fusion.

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