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Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum = Ein Handbuch zur quantitativen Planung
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. Gleichzeitig steigt der Druck auf unsere Landschaft kontinuierlich, indem sie immer intensiver genutzt und effizienter erschlossen wird. Durch diese Entwicklungen erge…
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- 9783662610336
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- XI, 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States = A Comprehen…
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the…
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- 9783030453671
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- XLII, 455 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objecti…
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- 978-90-04-27233-0
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- African Social Studies Series, Volume: 33
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Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery : Lessons from Pa…
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…
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- 9783031380488
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- XXXIV, 468 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes…
This Open Access book series aims to make timely and targeted contributions for decision-makers and on-the-ground practitioners by producing knowledge concerning “socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes” (SEPLS) – areas where production activities help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services in various forms while sustainably supporting the livelihoods and well-b…
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- 9789819912926
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The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
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- 9789811326943
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- XV, 302 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- XIX, 435 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Urban Planning Against Poverty : How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Glo…
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, all…
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- 978-3-030-28419-0
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- VIII, 214
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- Future City (FUCI, volume 14)
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- 307 BOL u
Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Lands…
This is an open access book. It is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the interlinkages between biodiversity and multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, and spiritual) in managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS). This bo…
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- 978-981-16-9893-4
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- Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review
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- XXIV, 286
Urban Geology
Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the sustainable use of these resources. The included case studies from northwestern Switzerland describe representative e…
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- 978-3-0348-0185-0
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- XVI, 216
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