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  • Land Policies in Europe

    Land-Use Planning, Property Rights, and Spatial Development

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann, Mathias Jehling, Arthur Schindelegger, Fabian Wenner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Land is a scarce resource. How can conflicting claims to land be reconciled? How can more housing be provided and, at the same time, the ecological goal of reducing land take be met? In many European countries, land-use planning is facing increasing and oftentimes contradictory challenges. This forms a land question, which requires land policies that can deal with the fraught relationship between ... Read more

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  • Simulation Science

    First International Workshop, SimScience 2017, Göttingen, Germany, April 27–28, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Marcus Baum, Gunther Brenner, Jens Grabowski, Thomas Hanschke, Stefan Hartmann, Anita Schöbel ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Clausthal-Göttingen International Workshop on Simulation Science, held in Göttingen, Germany, in April 2017.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation and optimization in networks, simulation of materials, distributed simulations. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

    Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, Simon McCarthy ...
    This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such ... Read more

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  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation

    Environmental and Socio-Economic Aspects

    Edited by Carla S. S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Thomas Hartmann, Paulo Pereira ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the typical nature-based solutions (NBS) used for flood mitigation at different scales and in different areas (e.g. from catchment to hillslope scale; from urban to coastal areas).NBS can provide several ecosystem services, such as water regulation and water quality enhancement, and as such offer relevant technical solutions to complement typical grey ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Homeowners and the Resilient City

    Climate-Driven Natural Hazards and Private Land

    Edited by Thomas Thaler, Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, Barbara Tempels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

    Edited by Lenka Slavíková, Thomas Hartmann, Thomas Thaler ...
    Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a large extent overlooked and the diversity of existing schemes shows that there has been a lack of consensus on how to achieve resilient flood recovery.Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Planning By Law and Property Rights Reconsidered

    Edited by Barrie Needham, Thomas Hartmann ...
    Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously. There is an unavoidable logical relationship between planning, law, and property rights. However, planning by law and property rights is so familiar and taken for granted that we do not think about the theory behind it. As a result, we do not think abstractly about its strengths and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Flood Resilience of Private Properties

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick, Tejo Spit ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    Flood Resilience of Private Propertiesexamines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone zones compound the risks. Protecting all properties to the same standards is ever more challenging. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Instruments of Land Policy

    Dealing with Scarcity of Land

    Edited by Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Property Rights and Climate Change

    Land use under changing environmental conditions

    Edited by Fennie van Straalen, Thomas Hartmann, John Sheehan ...
    Series series Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
    Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental ... Read more

    $70.99 USD