Coast lines [[electronic resource] ] : how mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change / / Mark Monmonier |
Autore | Monmonier Mark S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 912/.1946 |
Soggetto topico |
Coastal mapping
Environmental monitoring |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-96599-5
9786611965990 0-226-53404-9 |
Classificazione | RB 10223 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. DEPICTION AND MEASUREMENT -- TWO. DEFINITIONS AND DELINEATIONS -- THREE. NEW WORLDS AND FICTITIOUS ISLANDS -- FOUR. TRIANGLES AND TOPOGRAPHY -- FIVE. OVERHEAD IMAGING -- SIX. ELECTRONIC CHARTS AND PRECISE POSITIONING -- SEVEN. GLOBAL SHORELINES -- EIGHT. BASELINES AND OFFSHORE BORDERS -- NINE. CALIBRATING CATASTROPHE -- TEN. RISING SEAS, ERODINGSURGE -- ELEVEN. CLOSE-UPS AND COMPLEXITY -- TWELVE. EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454000703321 |
Monmonier Mark S | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Coast lines : how mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change / / Mark Monmonier |
Autore | Monmonier Mark S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 912/.1946 |
Soggetto topico |
Coastal mapping
Environmental monitoring |
Soggetto non controllato | mapmaking, cartography, geography, climate change, global warming, environment, nature, environmentalism, sea levels, flooding, natural disaster, extreme weather, malaysia, canals, venice, coasts, florida, california, coastline, technology, science, nonfiction, nautical charts, public access, beachfront property, tides, storms, shipwreck, shoals, satellite images, homeland security, maritime, environmental monitoring, coastal mapping |
ISBN |
1-281-96599-5
9786611965990 0-226-53404-9 |
Classificazione | RB 10223 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. DEPICTION AND MEASUREMENT -- TWO. DEFINITIONS AND DELINEATIONS -- THREE. NEW WORLDS AND FICTITIOUS ISLANDS -- FOUR. TRIANGLES AND TOPOGRAPHY -- FIVE. OVERHEAD IMAGING -- SIX. ELECTRONIC CHARTS AND PRECISE POSITIONING -- SEVEN. GLOBAL SHORELINES -- EIGHT. BASELINES AND OFFSHORE BORDERS -- NINE. CALIBRATING CATASTROPHE -- TEN. RISING SEAS, ERODINGSURGE -- ELEVEN. CLOSE-UPS AND COMPLEXITY -- TWELVE. EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782551503321 |
Monmonier Mark S | ||
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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