Author : Onkar Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 9788170224624
Contributed articles based on environmental and socioecological studies in India.
Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1119250625
A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography
Author : Jason Cons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1119412056
Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists
Author : Julie Michelle Klinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501714619
Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone?s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning.
Author : C B Fawcett
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019510469
This insightful work explores the complexities of political borders and their social, economic, and environmental impacts on the people living within them. Fawcett draws on his vast knowledge of geography, history, and politics to provide a comprehensive analysis of this crucial aspect of international relations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Gordon M. Winder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1317391616
This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been the successes and failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe, North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects on frontiers.
Author : Mark V. Lomolino
Publisher : Sinauer Associates Incorporated
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780878934782
Developed & published in association with the International Biogeography Society, this book concentrates on advances in historical biogeography, island biogeography & marine biogeography during the past quarter of a century.
Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030385248
This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here.
Author : Richard J. Chorley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000000206
Originally published in 1965 and with a second edition in 1970. Building upon the original two Madingley Hall seminars for teachers of non-university geography in 1965, this book presents an updated research picture of the 1970 transatlantic perspective. Answering the questions "What is happening in geography" and "What impact does this have on school geography", this provided a real link for students who were then making the increasingly difficult transition from school to university geography. Originally receiving a hostile reaction from British journals, the book’s diagnosis and prognosis were a forerunner of developments in methodological changes of the discipline. This work collects a series of essays delineating geographic concepts in terms of the philosophic underpinnings, assessment of the geomorphic system, climatology, and social economic and historical changing trends. Techniques are reviewed including quantitative methods for geomorphology and social geography, fieldwork both in urban areas and land-use surveys, and finally in physical planning. Final analyses examine and contrast the teaching methods and courses in American and British High Schools, Colleges and Universities.
Author : Richard J. Chorley
Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Education
ISBN :
