Картографическая реконструкция площади твердой поверхности Земли от современности до периода формирования первичной коры (более четырех миллиардов лет назад) на основе системного анализа границ структурно-морфологических объектов земной коры,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
«Арктическая энциклопедия» – универсальный свод информации, посвященный Арктике, Северу России и соседям по Арктическому региону. Более 4000 статей содержат материалы и сведения о северных территориях, природе, географических объектах, ресурсах,...
Наш родной дом – планета Земля. Но много ли мы знаем о ней? Да, Земля круглая, вертится вокруг своей оси, на ней есть континенты, моря и океаны. Однако задумывался ли ты, что находится внутри нашей планеты, отчего происходят стихийные бедствия,...
Данное учебное пособие посвящено статистическому анализу термодинамических параметров атмосферы и океана. Предпринята попытка рассмотреть с единых позиций фундаментальные вопросы гидрометеорологии с учетом основных факторов, стохастизирующих...
В книге обсуждаются закономерности разномасштабной изменчивости гидрометеорологических процессов и полей, обусловленной стохастичностью турбулентного и волнового движения в атмосфере и гидросфере. В турбулентных течениях термо- и...
В пособии даны общие сведения о проведении геоботанических описаний, анализе видового и популяционного состава растительных сообществ, а также их состава по географическим элементам, жизненным формам, экологическим и ценотическим группам видов. ...
GIS (geographic information system) is a totally cool technology that has been called “geography on steroids.” GIS is what lets you see the schools in your neighborhood or tells you where the nearest McDonald’s is. GIS For Dummies tells you all...
Learn physical geography at your own pace What is atmospheric pressure? How does latitude indicate the type of climate a specific place will have? Where are volcanic eruptions or strong earthquakes most likely to occur? With Physical Geography:...
В сборнике, посвященном 100-летию лидера отечественной географии 2-й половины ХХ века – академика И. П. Герасимова (1905–1985), собраны статьи его учеников и последователей, развивающие его наследие в области геоморфологии, почвоведения,...
Основное внимание в книге уделено наиболее актуальным проблемам опустынивания засушливых земель России в постсоветский период: соотношению климатического и антропогенного факторов опустынивания, динамике климата и ее влиянию на развитие...
Переход к устойчивому развитию сельского хозяйства и сельских территорий (САРД – транскрипция английской аббревиатуры SARD – Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (устойчивое развитие сельского хозяйства и сельских территорий)) основан...
В книге рассмотрен комплекс проблем, связанных с оценкой углеродного бюджета лесов, болот и сельскохозяйственных земель России. Приведен детальный обзор источников первичной информации, которые могут быть использованы при построении региональных...
Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for ‘appropriate’ acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of...
Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive...
In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance,...
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key...
Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/ Examines...
Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and care of wind-blown dunes, and covers all aspects of dunes,...
Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable...
The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian state practices since the Dayton Peace Agreement. Jeffrey presents new and significant theories, based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia, which advance...
NOMINATED AND SHORT LISTED FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK PRIZE 2011! This theoretically informed research explores what the development and transformation of air travel has meant for societies and individuals. Brings together a number of...
This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850...
This book provides a comprehensive view of geographical modeling. It first establishes the foundations of geographical modeling, covering such concepts as structure, organization, system, topologies, as well as the concept of time. Next, it...
Mediterranean mountains exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization pattern, historic land uses and current anthopogenic...
Our daily universe is rough and infinitely diverse. The fractal approach clarifies and orders these disparities. It helps us to envisage new explanations of geographical phenomena, which are, however, considered as definitely understood. Written...
An integrated approach that combines essential GIS background with a practical workbook on applying the principles in ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1 Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGISintegrates a broad introduction to GIS with a...
Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it Brings...
Presents the theories and applications of determining the position of an object in space through the use of satellites As the importance of space reconnaissance technology intensifies, more and more countries are investing money in building...
Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. Develops a theoretically informed new approach to...
This comprehensive text focuses on the increasingly important issues of urban geochemical mapping with key coverage of the distribution and behaviour of chemicals and compounds in the urban environment. Clearly structured throughout, the first...
Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. Builds upon a vast amount of new research data Examines how households try...
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key...
**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars....
Geographic Information Science and Technology (GISc&T) has been at the forefront of education innovation in geography and allied sciences for two decades. Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education is an...
Structure from Motion with Multi View Stereo provides hyperscale landform models using images acquired from standard compact cameras and a network of ground control points. The technique is not limited in temporal frequency and can provide point...
With clear, critical, and constructive surveys of key terms by leading researchers in the field, The Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition, remains the definitive guide to the concepts and debates in human geography. Comprehensively...
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday...
From World City to the World in One City examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in the city during its final years as a major imperial port. Draws upon life histories and memories of...
Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia—known locally as “the trampoline of death”—to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as...
This book is intended for applications of online digital mapping, called mashups (or composite application), and to analyze the mapping practices in online socio-technical controversies. The hypothesis put forward is that the ability to create...
This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents. Geographic information retrieval is a rapidly emerging subject, a trend fostered by the growing power of the Internet and the emerging...
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of...