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  • Human-Environment Interactions

    Current and Future Directions

    Edición de Eduardo S. Brondízio, Emilio F. Moran ...
    Series Libro 1 - Human-Environment Interactions
    Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections of the volume reflect complementary approaches to HEI: health and adaptation approaches, land ... Leer más

    $2,575 MXN

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  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    de Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Leer más

    $3,845 MXN

  • High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

    Edición de Belinda Yuen, Anthony G.O. Yeh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development.Even though ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    de Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Leer más

    $998 MXN

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edición de Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Leer más

    $2,575 MXN

  • Expert Systems in Environmental Planning

    Edición de Jeff R. Wright, Lyna L. Wiggins, Ravinder K. Jain, T.John Kim ...
    The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries. The common denominator among these three variables is the earth's life support sys tems, the ecosystems on which the world depends. When we describe our physi cal surroundings as a collection of possible uses, we are establishing linkages between ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edición de Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Leer más

    $2,575 MXN

  • World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions

    Annual Report 1995

    de German Advisory Council on Global change (WBGU) ...
    Series Libro 1995 - World in Transition
    At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental change as well. Global trends like soil degradation, loss of biological diversity, water scarcity ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • Carbon Sequestration in Urban Ecosystems

    Edición de Rattan Lal, Bruce Augustin ...
    Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water. It alters the energy balance and influences climate at local, regional and global scales. In 2008, urban population exceeded the rural population. In 2050, 70% of the world population will live in urban centers. The number of megacities (10 million inhabitants) ... Leer más

    $2,575 MXN

  • Risk Habitat Megacity

    Edición de Dirk Heinrichs, Kerstin Krellenberg, Bernd Hansjürgens, Francisco Martínez ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book studies the complexity of a ‘mega-urban system’ and explores interrelations between sectors and issues by providing an in-depths study of one particular city, Santiago de Chile. The ... Leer más

    $2,575 MXN

  • Climate Change and United States Forests

    Edición de James M. Vose, Toral Patel-Weynand, Peterson David L. ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves as a framework for managing U.S. forest resources in the context of climate change. The authors focus on topics having ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • Swarm Planning

    The Development of a Planning Methodology to Deal with Climate Adaptation

    de Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as ‘wicked,’ is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning. The author proposes a new adjusted framework which is more adaptable to unpredictable, wicked, dynamic and non-linear processes. The inspiration for this new method is the behaviour of swarms: bees, ants, birds and fish are ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN