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Ageing and Placeby Gavin J. Andrews; David R. Phillips
Routledge 2004; US$ 39.95An increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'. more...
Off Courseby Duncan M. Taylor
International Development Research Centre 1994; US$ 25.00El autor Duncan M. Taylor afirma, sin embargo, que el término desarrollo sustentable a menudo se emplea equivocadamente, y usa la crisis agroforestal de Canadá para mostrar la necesidad de repensar las políticas económicas y ambientales contemporáneas y ofrece recomendaciones para una estrategia de sustentabilidad de recursos para el país. more...
Intemperate Rainforestby Bruce Braun
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 75.00Bruce Braun examines social, discursive, and political practices through which Canada?s West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle. Departing from other work on environmental politics that assumes the ?forest? is a constant, The Intemperate Rainforest traces the way West Coast landscapes have been viewed and controlled by explorers, foresters, environmentalists, artists, scientists, adventure travelers, and Native peoples. more...
Handbook of Cultural Geographyby K Anderson; M Domosh; S Pile
Sage Publications Ltd. 2002; US$ 150.00Having just read this book, cover to cover, I can honestly say that I have not felt so excited about the discipline of geography since i was in my first year at college.... Overall, therefore, this is a truly wonderful book and the first comprehansive analysis of the cultural turn tha geography has taken, the pitfalls which lie ahead and the course which needs to be chartered. Innovative, invigorating, passionate and groundbreaking, it makes you feel great about being a cultural geographer, even if you never knew you were one'. -Space and Polity. `I never expected to call a handbook compulsive reading, but this wonderful volume changed all my preconceptions of what cultural geographers can do. Absorbing and thought-provoking, this is collaborative... more...
Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planningby Frederic R. Siegel
Springer 2008; US$ 119.00The world's ever increasing population is suffering from bad air, unsafe water and insufficient nutrition. This is often the result of chemical contamination of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and soils by human activities. This book discusses growing populations emphasizing both regional and national situations, the effects of chemical contamination on them and ways to alleviate or eliminate these effects through the application of knowledge, technology and proactive and integrated planning, including investment stimulated by government tax incentives and environmental legislation. For the first time topics including population growth, ecosystem chemistry and development planning have been melded into a single text appropriate for both advance... more...
Climate and Society in Colonial Mexicoby Georgina H. Endfield
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 42.95By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications. Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico’s rich colonial archives Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics more...
Behavior and Environmentby T. Garling; R.G. Golledge
Elsevier 1993; US$ 150.00Active researchers in the areas of geography and psychology have contributed to this book. Both fields are capable of increasing our scientific knowledge of how human behavior is interfaced with the molar physical environment. Such knowledge is essential for the solution of many of today's most urgent environmental problems. Failure to constrain use of scarce resources, pollution due to human activities, creation of technological hazards and deteriorating urban quality due to vandalism and crime are all well known examples. The influence of psychology in geographical research has long been appreciated but it is only recently that psychologists have recognized they have something to learn from geography. In identifying the importance of two-way... more...
Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changesby Andrew Vayda
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 74.99In this selection of essays from the past two decades, Vayda focuses on research and explanation concerned with causes of concrete events, especially human actions and the environmental changes brought about by them. more...
Natural Disasters, Cultural Responsesby Christof Mauch; Christian Pfister
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 40.99This is the first global history of natural catastrophes. It brings together some of the best scholars from different continents and different disciplines to discuss human responses to natural catastrophes. more...
Landscapes of Culture and Natureby Rod Giblett
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. more...









