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  • Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century

    Edited by Ashok K. Dutt, A.G. Noble, G. Venugopal, S. Subbiah ...
    Series Book 75 - GeoJournal Library
    st th The 21 century is the century of Asia in the same way the 20 century was of America. In terms of urbanization challenges Asia in the current century is faced with an enormous surge of urban population and the associated problems of rural –urban migration, overcrowding, proliferation of slums, housing shortage, growing unempl- ment and underemployment and choice between capital intensive ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Asian City: Processes of Development, Characteristics and Planning

    Edited by Ashok K. Dutt, F.J. Costa, Surinder Aggarwal, A.G. Noble ...
    Series Book 30 - GeoJournal Library
    In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The authors are urban specialists from four continents.This volume has been divided into six parts: Part I Urbanisation in an international context; Part II Comparative urban setting; Part III Urbanisation ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    How 12 Small Prairie Towns Reinvented Themselves for the 21st Century

    by Elizabeth McLachlan ...
    Series Book 5 - Detective Lane Mystery
    Canada in the twenty-first century is a place of growth and expansion. Cities like Vancouver and Toronto have become word-class destinations for business and tourism. Meanwhile, smaller, less prominent communities face changes of different sorts, as residents depart for the opportunities present in our country’s largest cities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Canada’s prairie provinces ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye

    Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

    by Anna Krien ...
    Series Book 66 - Quarterly Essay
    The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. Yet when it comes to action on climate change, division and paralysis rule the land.In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia’s climate wars – the Reef, the Galilee and Bowen basins, South Australia. She investigates the Adani ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Future of Fossil Fuels

    From Hubbert's Peak

    by Kenneth S. Deffeyes ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection from Hubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts what the future will bring for fossil fuels and what the alternatives are likely to be.Princeton ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Deconstructing the High Line

    Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park

    by Christoph Lindner, Brian Rosa, Tom Baker, Julian Brash, Phil Birge-Liberman, James Corner, Scott Larson, Kevin Loughran, Nate Millington0, Darren Patrick1, Danya Sherman2, Alan Smart3, Daan Wesselman4 ...
    2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures

    Edited by Stan Geertman, Andrew Allan, Chris Pettit, John Stillwell ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban futures. Rapid ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Notes from a Small Valley A Natural History of Wolli Creek I Prehistory

    by Justin Cahill ...
    This is part one of an introduction to the natural history of Sydney's Wolli Creek Valley. The Valley contains the last substantial remnants of the natural environment in the city's inner south-west. Even though it is quite small it contains a variety of habitats, ranging from tidal mudflats, saltmarsh and mangroves to reed-lands, open woodland and even fragments of rainforest. They, in turn, ... Read more

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  • Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico

    Essays on Monetary, Exchange Rate, and Fiscal Policies

    by J. Ros ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Regional Performance Measurement and Improvement

    New Developments and Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis

    by Soushi Suzuki, Peter Nijkamp ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is the first book to fully introduce a newly developed distance friction minimization (DFM) model, which is one of the new efficiency improvement projection approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DFM model can produce a most effective solution in efficiency improvement projections for inefficient spatial entities (decision-making units).The book provides a set of fresh ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Crop Ecology

    Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems

    by David J. Connor, Robert S. Loomis, Kenneth G. Cassman ...
    Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support continued population growth, though the size of the world's agricultural area will remain essentially unchanged. This updated and thoroughly revised second edition provides in-depth coverage of the impact ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Social Capital, Resilience and Adaptation on Small Islands

    Climate Change on the Isles of Scilly

    by Jan Petzold ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands’ adaptive capacity to climate change. The case study of the Isles of Scilly, UK, shows how social structures can play a very important role for climate change adaptation. It is argued that social features have to be understood in a non-deterministic and potentially ambivalent manner, according to their ... Read more

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