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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > General
Winner of the 1977 Border Regional Library Association Award for
his "Woody Plants of the Southwest", Samuel Lamb gives us another
definitive study of the trees and shrubs of our 50th state. The
enormous number of photographs make this 8 1/2 by 11 volume easy to
use. Fascinating and informative!
Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate
events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses
planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among
policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens.
Chapters look at the nature of contemporary risks, the widespread
of resilience thinking and the gap between the theoretical
conception and the practices. The book explores how resilience
implies a change in planning practices, highlighting the need for
flexibility in terms of procedures, and for dynamism in the
knowledge systems and learning processes that are the main tools
for interaction among different actors and scales. Given its
breadth of coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for both
academic readers (spatial planners, geographers, social scientists)
and practitioners (policymakers, citizens' associations).
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The Biosphere
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Emmett Gonzalenz
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The 'Grossglockner', Austria's highest mountain at 3,789m, is one
of the most important summits of the Eastern Alps - and not only
because it is so important for alpine tourism. At the end of the
18th Century, it had been explored and nobody less than Arch Bishop
Salm-Reiffenscheidt-Krautheim was the first to ascend in 1800.
Today, with more than 5000 ascents per year, it is a very popular
destination for climbers. But even for those who do not want to
climb, the fascination of this mountain is hard to escape. There is
no better way to investigate than from the 'Grossglockner' High
Alpine roads. The road leads across both mountain passes Fuscher
Toerl and Hochtor, crossing the main Alpes from Salzburg to
Carinthia, with turnoffs to the Edelweiss peak and the
Kaiser-Franz-Josef-height. The road as an adventure trip and its
12% ascent has to be well managed. Who would be more capable to
report about all this than Stefan Bogner, the master of the
automobile photo books? With fuel in his blood and a sensitive feel
for history, but also with accelerator and brake, he provides a
portrait of one of the most exciting and most visited Alpine roads.
Text in English and German.
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