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Rechtliche Grundlagen und Wirkungen der Festlegung von Kulturlandschaften
Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 2012; US$ 63.48Hauptbeschreibung Kulturlandschaften befinden sich im steten Wandel. Strukturveränderungen in der Landwirtschaft führen zu einer wachsenden Monotonie im ländlichen Raum. In Städten droht insbesondere durch landschaftsfremde Baustoffe ein Verfremdungseffekt, welcher keine regionsspezifischen und identitätsstiftenden Besonderheiten mehr aufweist. Diese... more...
Bolivia
Zed Books 2013; US$ 26.95Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people have responded to the processes of change that have... more...
Rural Analysis and Management
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99Presenting the foundation of rural analysis, this book presents a description of the elements of rural analysis, providing the basis for a synthetic view of rural landscapes in the second part. It covers topics such as global change, the role of information technologies in rural areas, and gender relations. more...
Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta
Springer 2008; US$ 199.99This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise. It offers a combination of in depth ecology and environmental history, dealing with exploitation of land and water, the use of everything nature... more...
The Big Picture
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 27.26The world's leading environmentalist delivers an urgent assessment of the planet's state and offers science-based solutions. more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Arctic and Antarctic
Dorling Kindersley 2012; US$ 16.99Here is an exciting and informative guide to the vast, icy wastes at the ends of the earth. Superb color photographs of snowy mountains and frozen seas, rare animals and plants, and the teeming life on and under the ice offer a unique "eyewitness" view of our planet''s polar wilderness. See a seal with a "trunk", a bear in a burrow, icebergs bigger... more...
The New Global Insecurity
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains... more...
Aid Activities Targeting the Objectives of the Rio Conventions 1998/2000, Volume 2002/1
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 50.00This publication provides detailed information on individual foreign aid commitments, i.e. intended disbursements, of Official Development Assistance (ODA) targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions - the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity - for... more...
Making Population Geography
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2005; US$ 49.95Lively account of the intellectual history of population geography more...
Developmental Geography & Economic Theory
Swastik Publishers & Distributors 2010; US$ 40.00Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? The author argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. He examines the course of economie geography and development theory to shed... more...









