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  • Developing Frontier Cities

    Global Perspectives — Regional Contexts

    Edited by Harvey Lithwick, Yehuda Gradus ...
    Series Book 52 - GeoJournal Library
    The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge Harvey Lithwick and Yehuda Grad us The advent of government downsizing, and globalization has led to enormous com petitive pressures as well as the opening of new opportunities. How cities in remote frontier areas might cope with what for them might appear to be a devastating challenge is the subject of this book. Our concern is ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Arid Frontier

    Interactive Management of Environment and Development

    Edited by Hendrik J. Bruins, Harvey Lithwick ...
    Series Book 41 - GeoJournal Library
    The arid frontier has been a challenge for humanity from time immemorial. Drylands cover more than one-third of the global land surface, distributed over Africa, Asia, Australia, America and Southern Europe. Disasters may develop as a result of complex interactions between drought, desertification and society. Therefore, proactive planning and interactive management, including disaster-coping ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    **Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?**Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those ... Read more

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  • Baby Seeds To Big Plants: Botany for Kids | Nature for Children Edition

    by Baby Professor ...
    The first step to getting your child involved in gardening is to learn about the principles of botany. This is where this book will come in handy. As an excellent introduction to the subject, this book comes complete with pictures and texts. It has been formatted in a way that would easily capture and absorb a child's attention. Secure a copy now! ... Read more

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  • Rangeland Desertification

    Edited by Olafur Arnalds, Steve Archer ...
    Series Book 19 - Advances in Vegetation Science
    Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and `rangelands'. Grazing by free-roaming ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

    From the Margins to the Centre

    by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Water-Conservation Traits to Increase Crop Yields in Water-deficit Environments

    Case Studies

    Edited by Thomas R. Sinclair ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume explores specific approaches that have shown to result in crop yield increases. Research on the physiological understanding of these methods has led to the development of practical applications of plant breeding approaches to genetically improve crops to achieve higher yields. Authoritative entries from crop scientists shed new light on two water-conservation traits: one that is based ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Introduction to Community Development

    Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning

    by Jerry W. Robinson, Gary Paul Green ...
    Historical context, theoretical grounding, critical issues perspective, and the "how-to" for community developmentThis collection of work by leading community development scholars presents students with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. The text progresses seamlessly from a theoretical overview to a historical overview to three approaches to community development (ecological, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Water Resources Quality

    Preserving the Quality of our Water Resources

    Edited by Hillel Rubin, Josef Fürst, Uri Shamir, Peter Nachtnebel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph results from the 4th International Austrian-Israeli Technion Symposium cum Industrial Forum under the banner of the Austrian Technion Society initiative Technology for Peace - Science for Mankind, which was held in Vienna, 23 - 25 April 200 I, devoted to Preservation of the Quality of our Water Resources. The Symposium was a cooperative effort with the Austrian Federal Ministry of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Lerma-Chapala Watershed

    Evaluation and Management

    Edited by Anne M. Hansen, Manfred van Afferden ...
    James O. Leckie Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4020, USA Nearly 10 years have passed since the beginning of the systematic studies of the Lerma-Chapala Basin coordinated by the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua. Although many public and private institutions, universities and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Reengineering the University

    How to Be Mission Centered, Market Smart, and Margin Conscious

    by William F. Massy ...
    How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values?Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington PublishersHigher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas

    Edited by Martin F. Bach, Josef Krecek ...
    Series Book 68 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    These proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas" provide a landmark in the evolution of a distinctive movement, perhaps an emerging new philosophy, within the practice of headwater management. The Headwater Control movement traces its history back to the First International Conference on Headwater Control, Prague, 1989. Throughout this ... Read more

    $89.99 USD