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Landscape Bionomics Biological-Integrated Landscape Ecology
"Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate themes (water, species, pollution, etc.). To be more exact, the landscape is identified as …
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- 978-88-470-5226-0
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Landscape Analysis and Planning: Geographical Perspectives
This book presents recent advances in landscape analysis and landscape planning based on selected studies conducted in different parts of Europe. Included are methodological problems and case studies presented and discussed during scientific sessions organized by the Commission of Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning of the International Geographical Union (IGU) within the framework of the…
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- 978-3-319-13527-4
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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate Multicrit…
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- 978-3-662-50152-8
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- XV
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- Advances in Geographic Information Science
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Symposium on Chinese Historical Geography
This book represents the most important academic achievements won by Dr. Renzhi Hou, one of the founding fathers of and pioneering researchers in the modern historical geography of China. His collected papers and speeches, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, serve as a window into Hou’s academic experience as well as the development of the historical geography of China during the second hal…
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- 978-3-662-45272-1
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- IX, 145
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- China Academic Library
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Geospatial Analysis to Support Urban Planning in Beijing
This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the relationships between human behaviors and spatial patterns in order to simulate activities in an urban space, visualize planning alterna…
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- 978-3-319-19341-0
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- XXV, 272
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- 301 LON g
Geographies of Knowledge and Power
Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the ac…
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- 978-94-017-9959-1
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- X, 347
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- 300 GEO
Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World
This book is based on the assumption that “organic has lost its way”. Paradoxically, it comes at a time when we witness the continuing of growth in organic food production and markets around the world. Yet, the book claims that organic has lost sight of its first or fundamental philosophical principles and ontological assumptions. The collection offers empirically grounded discussions that…
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- 978-94-017-9190-8
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- 658.834
Environmental Change and the Social Response in the Amur River Basin
This book features research on historical land use and land cover in the Amur River Basin, which are important not only for residents there but also for those affected by its material and water cycles. Land use and land cover are affected by natural and human interactions over long and short timescales. The authors address historical changes in the land cover analysis of the Amur. The Amur regi…
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- 978-4-431-55245-1
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- 45 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
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Tohoku Recovery
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing indu…
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- 978-4-431-55136-2
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- 20 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
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Time-Sensitive Remote Sensing
This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements. Specifically, it brings together a group of authors who are both researchers and practitioners, who work toward or are currently using remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements with the goal of advancing the effective use of remote sensing to supply t…
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- 978-1-4939-2602-2
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
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