A systematic rethinking of financialization, which explores how financial capitalism – especially the asset management industry – is organised, how the locus of power has shifted from public to private authority, and how its consequences have defined...Loe edasi...
Tells the story of how the solutions to this centurys problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living. Drawing on the lessons from their stories, from brain science, and from the realm of urban experimentation, this book offers solutions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031859472)
This book is an in-depth and insightful exploration of the pivotal role Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play in understanding heritage changes and revitalizing urban identities amidst rapid urbanization and transformation. Geographic Info...Loe edasi...
This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...Loe edasi...
Written to mark the tenth anniversary of the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, this multidisciplinary collection of short, digestible expert essays offers a uniquely rounded introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutri...Loe edasi...
In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South informal settlements, or slums. Informal settlement...Loe edasi...
A uniquely rounded, interdisciplinary introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutrition and food systems, including contributions from economists, historians, sociologists, and physical biologists...Loe edasi...
This book provides a compelling insiders account of The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), a groundbreaking initiative that has transformed avian conservation across the continent. It is essential reading for conservation professional...Loe edasi...
This book provides a compelling insiders account of The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), a groundbreaking initiative that has transformed avian conservation across the continent. It is essential reading for conservation professional...Loe edasi...
This book provides a thorough examination of African society from a sociological standpoint. While previous works have addressed specific themes, such as urban life, education, gender, and globalization, this book encompasses the full range of socio...Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian...Loe edasi...
The second edition of GIS in Water Resource Engineering, thoroughly revised and updated, presents a comprehensive review of the concepts and applications of GIS in various scenarios from surface water and groundwater to wastewater and river...Loe edasi...
There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation. This book advances...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together perspectives from urban and regional planning, architecture, environmental studies, disaster management, public policy and social sciences to explore how climate risks are reshaping coastal urban systems, governance str...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033868)
Love in the Time of Zika examines the transformation of reproductive politics spurred by the Zika public health emergency in 2016. The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease with a direct link to fetal and childrens disabilities, provoked the surveill...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198303)
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197825)
Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-events spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons o...Loe edasi...
Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow, Alison Todes
Sari: Global Urban Transformations
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198327)
An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and charact...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199782)
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes...Loe edasi...
Cities across the world are facing a convergence of environmental risks, from flooding and extreme heat events to air pollution and water scarcity. These threats are increasingly uneven in their impacts and deeply shaped by local geography. This b...Loe edasi...
This book is devoted to the study of the problem of sustainable development of rural territories. To solve this problem, a novel solution is offered: the implementation of climate-smart technologies in agriculture. This book discloses the components...Loe edasi...
This textbook is a modern look at the key concepts of sedimentology and stratigraphy, and it is written for the undergraduate level. With lavish and abundant illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, the book focuses on the concepts requi...Loe edasi...
This new edition of Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing emphasizes the use of machine learning approaches to remote sensing information extraction, change detection, and compressed sensing. With 19 new chapters written by world l...Loe edasi...
This book presents a multidimensional survey of Eastern Partnership-EU relations and the future of Europe. It analyses the situation of the Partnership countries in the context of sustainable development and explores the historical and strategic con...Loe edasi...
This book highlights and explains the details of machine learning models used in geospatial data analysis. It demonstrates the need for a data-centric explainable machine learning approach for obtaining new insights from geospatial data analysis a...Loe edasi...
This book offers a framework for how the geospatial and surveying industry can create and integrate BIM with GIS to capture, manage, analyze, and display the physical and functional characteristics of a facitility. Using practical implementation met...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a range of established and emerging scholars of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) migration, race, whiteness and post- and decoloniality to explore these themes from/to and within Central and Eastern Europe....Loe edasi...
This book aims to integrate exploration geophysics with remote sensing as a cost-effective method and easy to implement for prospecting in different areas. It provides exploration geophysicists with the necessary information on how to use advanced r...Loe edasi...
This textbook helps students and educators prepare for the future by studying and teaching in the cloud and learning how to use modern cloud computing resources to process and analyze data and access the latest technologies with a modern browser. It...Loe edasi...
This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning fou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031859472)
This book is an in-depth and insightful exploration of the pivotal role Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play in understanding heritage changes and revitalizing urban identities amidst rapid urbanization and transformation. Geographic Info...Loe edasi...
This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...Loe edasi...
Written to mark the tenth anniversary of the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, this multidisciplinary collection of short, digestible expert essays offers a uniquely rounded introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutri...Loe edasi...
In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South informal settlements, or slums. Informal settlement...Loe edasi...
A uniquely rounded, interdisciplinary introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutrition and food systems, including contributions from economists, historians, sociologists, and physical biologists...Loe edasi...
This book provides a compelling insiders account of The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), a groundbreaking initiative that has transformed avian conservation across the continent. It is essential reading for conservation professional...Loe edasi...
This book provides a compelling insiders account of The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), a groundbreaking initiative that has transformed avian conservation across the continent. It is essential reading for conservation professional...Loe edasi...
This book provides a thorough examination of African society from a sociological standpoint. While previous works have addressed specific themes, such as urban life, education, gender, and globalization, this book encompasses the full range of socio...Loe edasi...
Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics....Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian...Loe edasi...
The second edition of GIS in Water Resource Engineering, thoroughly revised and updated, presents a comprehensive review of the concepts and applications of GIS in various scenarios from surface water and groundwater to wastewater and river...Loe edasi...
There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation. This book advances...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together perspectives from urban and regional planning, architecture, environmental studies, disaster management, public policy and social sciences to explore how climate risks are reshaping coastal urban systems, governance str...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033868)
Love in the Time of Zika examines the transformation of reproductive politics spurred by the Zika public health emergency in 2016. The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease with a direct link to fetal and childrens disabilities, provoked the surveill...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198303)
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197825)
Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-events spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons o...Loe edasi...
Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow, Alison Todes
Sari: Global Urban Transformations
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198327)
An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and charact...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199782)
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes...Loe edasi...
