Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Paperback. An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management. These include the roles, responsibilities, and coordination requirements of first responders, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the military. Editor(s): Larsen, Jeffrey A. Series: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 2 maps, 13 charts. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; JWKW; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336415
- ISBN
- 9781137336415
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability, culture, communication, development and social change, this book explores the relationship between communication and sustainability from a social change perspective. Editor(s): Servaes, Jan. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; GTF; KCM; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329400
- ISBN
- 9781137329400
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€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. An introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships of importance to the student of consequence management. These include the roles, responsibilities, and coordination requirements of first responders, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the military. Editor(s): Larsen, Jeffrey A. Series: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; JWKW; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 569.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326775
- ISBN
- 9781137326775
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Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafes, cafe as surrogate office, and cafe as site of exchange for news and views. Editor(s): Scambler, Graham; Tjora, Aksel. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFFP; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275929
- ISBN
- 9781137275929
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Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Hardcover. This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice discourses about environmental harm. Editor(s): Westerhuis, Diane; Walters, Reece; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273987
- ISBN
- 9781137273987
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice discourses about environmental harm. Editor(s): Westerhuis, Diane; Walters, Reece; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 figures, 3 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JKVC; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273970
- ISBN
- 9781137273970
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€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardcover. This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice. Editor(s): Mayo, Marjorie; Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida; Packham, Carol. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034731
- ISBN
- 9781137034731
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. The authors investigate the exceptional political economy of the ten inhabited islands whose territory is divided amongst two or more countries: that are unitary geographical spaces but fragmented polities. Editor(s): Baldacchino, Godfrey. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPRB; JPSL; KCP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023124
- ISBN
- 9781137023124
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Editor(s): O'Neill, Karen M.; Abs, Daniel J. van. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 photographs, 14 maps, 11 figures, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNR; RPC; TNF; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813573779
- ISBN
- 9780813573779
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Condition: New
€ 160.74
€ 160.74
hardcover. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087829
- ISBN
- 9780802087829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.88
€ 62.88
paperback. In order to experience the naturalness and freedom of the parks, we must embrace the very forms of regulation that we closely associate with places we consider to be artificial, restrictive, and alienating. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802081827
- ISBN
- 9780802081827
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
Paperback. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802048967
- ISBN
- 9780802048967
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
Hardcover. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on an International Data-Sharing Programme for the Effective Management of Danube River Basin Resources, Budapest, Hungary 27-30 May 1996 Editor(s): Murphy, Irene L. Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; RBK; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792343820
- ISBN
- 9780792343820
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Condition: New
€ 132.29
€ 132.29
Hardcover. The 25th anniversary volume of the "Boundary-Layer Meterology", on which this book is based, was compiled from review and other articles solicited and selected as a "Festschrift" to honour Ted Munn's achievement as editor of the journal over that time. Editor(s): Garratt, J. R.; Taylor, P. A. Num Pages: 418 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- Reprinted from BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, 78:1-4,
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792341918
- ISBN
- 9780792341918
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Condition: New
€ 136.07
€ 136.07
Hardcover. Focuses on urban earthquake safety developments around the world. This book provides approaches and procedures for the creation of earthquake damage scenarios (EDS). It discusses needs and approaches to reducing earthquake risk. Editor(s): Tucker, Brian E.; Erdik, Mustafa Ozder; Hwang, Christina N. Series: NATO Science Series E:. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JFFC; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "An Evaluation of Guidelines for Developing Earthquake Damage Scenarios for Urban Areas", Istanbul, Turkey, October 8-11, 1993. Series: NATO Science Series E:. 346 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Tucker, Brian E.; Erdik, Mustafa Ozder; Hwang, Christina N. Focuses on urban earthquake safety developments around the world. This book provides approaches and procedures for the creation of earthquake damage scenarios (EDS). It discusses needs and approaches to reducing earthquake risk. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: GPS; JFFC; RNR. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 24. Weight: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic
- Edition
- 1994th Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329145
- ISBN
- 9780792329145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 258.29
€ 258.29
Paperback. Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia J. (Professor of History, University of New Mexico, USA). Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612857
- ISBN
- 9780700612857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.42
€ 45.42
paperback. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674654761
- ISBN
- 9780674654761
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Condition: New
€ 51.76€ 48.67
€ 51.76
€ 48.67
Paperback. Using an engineera s perspective, it offers a concrete account of the basic facts and experiences regarding the behavior of different rock types in engineering construction. Details geological exploration techniques, stressing drilling and logging core samples. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RBG; TNCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 193 x 25. Weight in Grams: 814.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471544241
- ISBN
- 9780471544241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 294.11
€ 294.11
Hardcover. This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some experiments testing centralized and local management of natural resources to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach as well as ways it can be improved and made suitable for new contexts. Editor(s): Jeffery, Roger; Vira, Bhaskar. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333792773
- ISBN
- 9780333792773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. This volume advises caution, as well as optimism, in the use of participatory natural resource management projects. By drawing on the experience of NGOs, national governments and donor sectors as well as academic researchers this is an analysis of the theory and practice of these type of projects. Editor(s): Vira, Bhaskar; Jeffery, Roger. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333792766
- ISBN
- 9780333792766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. As globalization influences the transformation of environmental politics, the accumulation of diverse processes and movements requires systematic analysis. This volume responds to the need for an integrative framework in which to situate the trends and practices of environmental protection. Editor(s): Jeong, Ho-Won. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333779019
- ISBN
- 9780333779019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.49
€ 71.49
Hardcover. The nine case studies (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia) presented in this book explore the complexity involved in environmental planning and policy in one of the World's poorest regions. Editor(s): Salih, M. A. Mohamed; Shibru, Tedla; Tedla, Shibru (President of the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society). Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1HFM; JP; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333772263
- ISBN
- 9780333772263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Paperback. Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country. While allowing some of the most astonishing economic growth the world has seen, they have also induced some of the most profound social and environmental shifts. Editor(s): Cannon, Terry (University of Greenwich). Num Pages: 335 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCB; KCM; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333716601
- ISBN
- 9780333716601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This is the third volume of papers in the topical area of environmental management. Arising from work done by the International Centre for the Environment at the University of Bath, the papers address inter-disciplinary environmental themes particularly from a business and management perspective. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN; KJG; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333674819
- ISBN
- 9780333674819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32