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UNINA9910960358603321 |
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Titolo |
Applied geography : principles and practice : an introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography / / edited by Michael Pacione |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
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1-134-67266-7 |
1-134-67267-5 |
0-203-01251-8 |
0-585-45184-2 |
1-280-33388-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (661 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geography |
Natural disasters |
Environmental management |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
Spatial analysis (Statistics) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of boxes; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; In pursuit of useful knowledge: the principles and practice of applied geography; Natural and environmental hazards; Global warming; Acid precipitation; Extreme weather events; Earthquakes and vulcanism; Landslides; Floods; Coastal erosion; Physical problems of the urban environment; Environmental change and management; Water supply and management; Water quality and pollution; Irrigation; Desertification; Deforestation |
Maintaining biodiversityLandscape evaluation; Environmental impact assessment; Countryside recreation management; The de-intensification of European agriculture; Wetlands conservation; Land-use conflict at the urban fringe; Derelict and vacant land; Sustainable tourism; Townscape conservation; Challenges of the human |
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environment; Urbanisation and counterurbanisation; Boundary disputes; Political spaces and representation within the state; Housing problems in the developed world; The geography of poverty and deprivation; Segregation and discrimination; Socio-spatial variations in health |
Crime and fear of crimeRetail location analysis; Urban transport and traffic problems; Rural accessibility and transport; City marketing as a planning tool; Low-income shelter in the third world city; Informal sector activity in the third world city; HIV/AIDS, poverty, exclusion and the third world; Techniques of spatial analysis; GIS, remote sensing and the problem of environmental change; Cartography: from traditional to electronic and beyond; Geodemographics, marketing and retail location; Global positioning systems as a practical fieldwork tool: applications in mountain environments |
Computer simulation and modelling of urban structure and developmentPlace index; Subject index |
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Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key issues and contemporary debates are within the books main sections, which cover: natural and environmental hazards environmental change and management challenges of the human environm |
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UNISA996654168703316 |
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Autore |
COLE, Phyllis <1944-> |
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Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism : a family history / Phyllis Cole |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Testo elettronico (PDF) (401 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Trascendentalismo <Movimenti culturali> - America |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Risorsa elettronica |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Mary Moody Emerson è da tempo una leggenda del New England, la "zia calvinista eccentrica" di Ralph Waldo Emerson, che indossava un sudario funebre come abito quotidiano. Questo nuovo, entusiasmante studio, basato sulla prima lettura di tutte le sue lettere e diari conosciuti, rivela una voce umana complessa e una potente anticipatrice del trascendentalismo americano. Fin dagli anni dell'infanzia del suo celebre nipote, sia negli scritti privati che in quelli pubblicati, celebrò l'indipendenza, la solitudine nella natura e la comunione interiore con Dio. Mary Moody Emerson ereditò risorse e vincoli dalla sua famiglia, una stirpe del Massachusetts |
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