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The Barrier Zones in the Ocean

Geochemical barrier zones play an important role in determining various physical systems and characteristics of the oceans, ...

The Data Shake Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

This book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European ...

The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place

This book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in ...

The Economy as a Complex Spatial System

This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic ...

The Future of Arid Lands — Revisited : A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research

This volume first looks at the state of science in 1956 and attendant contemporary views of arid lands development. It then ...

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation

It has long been recognized that advances in science contribute to economic growth. While it is one thing to argue that such ...

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

This volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific ...

The Places Where Community Is Practiced

In this book the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable ...

The Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and ...

The Territorial Future of the City

The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of ...

Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences A Reference Model Guided Approach for Common Challenges

This book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together ...

Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda : Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward

This book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why ...

Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives The Case of Finland

This monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, ...

Urban Environmental Management and Technology

This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...

Urban Forests and Trees

This publication is the result of more than six years of hard work by a dedicated group of European urban forest and tree ...

Urban Informatics

This book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect ...

Urban Landscape Perspectives

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. Articles in ...

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

This book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions ...

Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

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