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Hardcover. This book outlines climate change adaptation actions in Bangladesh, covering the impact of sea-level rise on health; strategy and action plans; socio-economic consequences and adaptive applications for agriculture, the livelihood of residents and fisheries. Editor(s): Shaw, Rajib; Mallick, Fuad; Islam, Aminul. Series: Disaster Risk Reduction. Num Pages: 429 pages, 39 black & white tables, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; RGC; RNPG; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Japan Japan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784431542483
- ISBN
- 9784431542483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.43
€ 124.43
Hardcover. Applied Regional Growth and Innovation Models Editor(s): Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Professor Peter; Stimson, Robert. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 48 colour illustrations, 78 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: KCG; KCP; RGCM; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642378188
- ISBN
- 9783642378188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.91
€ 123.91
Hardcover. This book presents an overview of the evolution of service industries. It examines location factors of service industries and the importance of some specific services, such as business services and knowledge and information services. Editor(s): Cuadrado-Roura, Juan R. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 457 pages, 78 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KNS; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642358005
- ISBN
- 9783642358005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.15
€ 125.15
Hardcover. Going beyond the traditional economic approach of clusters to include 'soft factors' in explaining regional competitiveness, this book highlights connections between inter-firm cooperation in regional clusters, innovation and regional networks, and more. Editor(s): Ferreira, Joao J. M.; Raposo, Mario L.; Rutten, Roel; Varga, Attila. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 283 pages, 28 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JNK; KCP; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642331930
- ISBN
- 9783642331930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.39
€ 123.39
Hardcover. This book discusses the wide-ranging impacts of the trend toward peri-urbanisation, and issues in planning and management. Presents six case studies, and proposes a future-oriented management approach focused on scenarios and sustainability impact analysis. Editor(s): Pauleit, Stephan; Bell, Simon; Aalbers, Carmen; Nilsson, Kjell; Sick Nielsen, Thomas A. Num Pages: 463 pages, 101 black & white illustrations, 91 colour illustrations, 20 black & white tables, 20 col. BIC Classification: 1D; RGCM; RNU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642305283
- ISBN
- 9783642305283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.95
€ 189.95
Hardcover. This book explores challenges facing rural communities and economies, demonstrating the uses of spatial microsimulation in policy and analysis. Offers a detailed view of the SMILE (Simulation Model of the Irish Local Economy) spatial microsimulation model. Editor(s): O'Donoghue, Cathal; Ballas, Dimitris; Clarke, Graham; Hynes, Stephen; Morrissey, Karyn. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 264 pages, 53 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; KCP; RGCM; RPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642300257
- ISBN
- 9783642300257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.36
€ 123.36
Hardcover. This volume uses the dynamics of the demographic and geographic distributions of humans to explore biological diversity. It evaluates relationships between human settlement and the population dynamics of both native and non-native species. Editor(s): Cincotta, Richard P.; Gorenflo, Larry J. Series: Ecological Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RGC; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642167065
- ISBN
- 9783642167065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.22
€ 187.22
Hardcover. This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry and analyzes current challenges in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behavior. Editor(s): Conrady, Roland; Buck, Martin. Series: Trends and Issues in Global Tourism. Num Pages: 309 pages, 45 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KNSG; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642108280
- ISBN
- 9783642108280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Hardcover. Geodesign by Integrating Design and Geospatial Sciences Editor(s): Lee, Danbi; Dias, Eduardo; Scholten, Henk J. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMVD; RGC; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319082981
- ISBN
- 9783319082981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Editor(s): Barrett, Gary W.; Barrett, Terry L.; Wu, Jianguo. Num Pages: 190 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 22 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RGC; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493922741
- ISBN
- 9781493922741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mensah, Joseph. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; KCM; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403987563
- ISBN
- 9781403987563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.19
€ 123.19
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ostergaard-Nielsen, Eva. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1H; 1K; JFFN; JPS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403902511
- ISBN
- 9781403902511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Travelling intensively to and for work helps - but also challenges - people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for family and career development. Editor(s): Viry, Gil; Kaufmann, Vincent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, 35 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFM; JHBK; JHBL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447371
- ISBN
- 9781137447371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities. Editor(s): Murray, Lesley; Upstone, Sara. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346650
- ISBN
- 9781137346650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275929
- ISBN
- 9781137275929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.63
€ 132.63
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces. Editor(s): Cook, Daniel Thomas. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT; KJSU; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517042
- ISBN
- 9780230517042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardcover. This volume brings a plurality of approaches -- from political economic to Foucauldian -- to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributors explore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements mobilize against. Editor(s): Kunkel, Jenny; Mayer, Margit. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; KCA; RGCP; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230271838
- ISBN
- 9780230271838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.10
€ 144.10
Hardcover. The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors. This edited volume addresses local-global nexuses via case studies of global interactions in developed and developing areas, and of particular firms' approaches to these issues. The chapters build up a prospectus on how best to create globally capable localities. Editor(s): Dallago, Bruno; Guglielmetti, Chiara. Num Pages: 304 pages, 44, 25 black & white tables, 17 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: KCG; KCM; KJH; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480. 304 pages, 44, 25 black & white tables, 17 figures, 2 maps. Editor(s): Dallago, Bruno; Guglielmetti, Chiara. The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors. This edited volume addresses local-global nexuses via case studies of global interactions in developed and developing areas, and of particular firms' approaches to these issues. The chapters build up a prospectus on how best to create globally capable localities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: KCG; KCM; KJH; RGCM. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 23. Weight: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252721
- ISBN
- 9780230252721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Paperback. This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and new-comers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources. Editor(s): Murray, Martin J.; Myers, Garth Andrew. Num Pages: 332 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSG; RGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116641
- ISBN
- 9780230116641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Hardcover. Cultural diversity and difference is increasing in European cities, driven by economic integration, migration and EU enlargement, but against a background of cultural friction. This book is concerned with how governance approaches to urban management and grass roots community dialogue can foster a sense of citizenship. Editor(s): Neill, William J. V.; Schwedler, Hanns-Uve. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFFN; JFSL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007642
- ISBN
- 9780230007642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.16
€ 123.16
Hardcover. By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy and social change in a domestic, regional and global context. Editor(s): Terao, Tadayoshi; Otsuka, Kenji. Series: IDE-JETRO series. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCM; KCN; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230004702
- ISBN
- 9780230004702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Walloth, Christian; Gebetsroither-Geringer, Ernst; Atun, Funda; Werner, Liss C. Series: Understanding Complex Systems. Num Pages: 145 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GPFC; JHBC; PBWR; RGC; UNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319301761
- ISBN
- 9783319301761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brickell, Dr. Katherine; Fernandez Arrigoitia, Melissa; Vasudevan, Alexander. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137511263
- ISBN
- 9781137511263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.16
€ 101.16