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Books > Earth & environment > Geography
Technological advancements have changed that way we think of
traditional urban and spatial planning. The inclusion of
conventional elements with modern technologies is allowing this
field to advance at a rapid pace. Geospatial Technologies in Urban
System Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a
pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the
different tools and techniques ranging from mathematical sciences
to spatial sciences which can be effective in unveiling the
complexity of an urban system. Featuring extensive coverage on
relevant areas such as urban traffic, remote sensing, and
geographic information systems, this publication is an ideal
resource for academics, researchers, graduate-level students,
professionals, and policymakers in urban economy, regional
planning, and information science disciplines.
Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and
practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects
the nation's economic performance. It provides several years of
annual, quarterly, and monthly data in industrial and demographic
detail including key indicators such as: gross domestic product,
personal income, spending, saving, employment, unemployment, the
capital stock, and more. Business Statistics of the United States
is the best place to find historical perspectives on the U.S.
economy. Of equal importance to the data are the introductory
highlights, extensive notes, and figures for each chapter that help
users to understand the data, use them appropriately, and, if
desired, seek additional information from the source agencies.
Business Statistics of the United States provides a rich and deep
picture of the American economy and contains approximately 3,500
time series in all. The data are predominately from federal
government sources including: Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Labor
Statistics Census Bureau Employment and Training Administration
Energy Information Administration Federal Housing Finance Agency
U.S. Department of the Treasury
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis
of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable
development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for
decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and
development across all major regions of the globe. The first
section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land
tenure security and its connections with sustainable development.
The book then explores key thematic challenges that interact
directly with land tenure security, followed by a section on
strategies for addressing tenure insecurity. The book concludes
with a section on new frontiers in research, policy, and action. An
invaluable reference for researchers in the field and for
practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of this
important topic. This is an open access book.
Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development
and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a
reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are
interested in this subject and intend venture into serious
research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and
highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a
wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
One of the major challenges facing the world today is the
interaction between demographic change and development. Demographic
Dynamics and Development reviews the dominant demographic theory,
demographic transition, and then presents a thorough investigation
covering aging, fertility, contraception, nuptiality, mortality and
migration, which are all aspects that drive these changes. Each
chapter combines the latest empirical data with theoretical
reflections on the implications for development. This book thus
offers an overview of worldwide demographic data, studied with a
view towards development. In doing so, it provides researchers and
specialists with clear information through in-depth case studies,
focusing on a country, a region or a particularly important
scientific sub-theme.
Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as
central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce
researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and
movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization,
war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a
detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and
political questions about globalization in a variety of
disciplines. This systematic overview of moments in Deleuze's
corpus where space is implicitly or explicitly theorized shows why
he can be called the twentieth century's most interesting thinker
of space. Anyone with an interest in refining such concepts as
territory, assemblage, body, event and Anthropocene will learn much
from the "geophilosophy" which Deleuze and Guattari proposed for
our critical times.
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