Author: A.J. Conacher
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: library, geojournal, degradation, land
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-02-28
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 0792367707
ISBN-13: 9780792367703

This book contains selected contributions from the Sixth Meeting of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification, held in Perth, Australia, in September 1999. Collectively, these contributions explicitly seek to understand not only the mechanisms responsible for the problem of land degradation but also their social and economic implications, the means of overcoming the problems, and the policy instruments whereby remedial measures may be implemented. This breadth of approach is both distinctive and essential if the problems are to be t

Author: Yuji Murayama
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: library, geojournal, system, urban, japanese
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2000-10-31
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 079236600X
ISBN-13: 9780792366003

This book is an attempt to explain Japanese regional structure and associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. It is extremely effective to use the urban systems approach to explain the regional changes in today’s Japan, which is undergoing changes wrought by economic globalization and the information revolution. This is because the transformation into a service economy has become the key component of the economic activities of cities, linkages are being mutually strengthened, and regional development is being determined by the interdependency of cities. Readers hoping to ga

Authors:B. Hewitson, R.G. Crane,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geojournal, library, geography, applications, nets, neural
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1994-03-31
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0792327462
ISBN-13: 9780792327462

Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However, the number of studies that have utilized these techniques is limited. This lack of interest can be attributed, in part, to lack of exposure, to the use of extensive and often confusing jargon, and to the misapprehension that, without an underlying statistical model, the explanatory power of the neural net is very low. Neural Nets: Applications for Geography attacks all three issues; the text demonstrates a wide variety of neural net a

Author: C.J. Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geojournal, library, resource, depletion, century, oil, golden
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-10-31
List price: $202.00
ISBN-10: 0792314425
ISBN-13: 9780792314424

Authors:Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: library, geojournal, environments, representing, presenting
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402038135
ISBN-13: 9781402038136

The presentation and representation of the environment can be found in every academic discipline and is a subject of increasing attention by the media. Scientists use implicit strict codes that need to be clearly understood by users of their findings. Their approach can and often does clash with alternative environmental information available from other sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. Historical and literary accounts emphasize subjective responses to the environment, frequently eschewing measurable and measured facts provided by scientific inve

Authors:Ashok K. Dutt, F.J. Costa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geojournal, library, belgium, development, planning, urban, perspectives
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1992-08-31
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0792318854
ISBN-13: 9780792318859

This book is the first comprehensive overview in the English language of Belgian Planning and Urban Development. As such it satisfies a void in the planning literature about developments in a unique and increasingly important country of northwest Europe. Belgium and its capital, Brussels, are the administrative heart of an emerging European Community. The physical impact of this administrative centrality will be enormous -- especially for Brussels. The planning response to these new functions by the Belgian government and people is given great attention by several of the authors of thi

Author: Gary S. Dunbar
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: survey, geojournal, library, international, subject, discipline, profession, geography
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 1402000197
ISBN-13: 9781402000195

This book is a comprehensive treatment of the professionalization and institutionalization of the academic discipline of geography in Europe and North America, with emphasis on the 20th century and the last quarter of the 19th. It consists of entirely new essays written by some of the world’s leading experts in the history of geography. No other book has ever attempted coverage of this sort. Although it is aimed at geographers, both professionals and neophytes, the book could enlighten readers from other fields, especially practitioners of the social and earth sciences, as well as histor