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Introduction to health geography showing how health may be studied from geographical perspectives. Reviews a wide range of studies linking outcomes with social and physical environments. For students. Softcover, hardcover listed in approval week 2002-04. ... Read more

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Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this textbook.

The second edition of "The Geography of transport systems" maintains the overall structure of its predecessor, with chapters dealing with specific conceptual dimensions and methodologies, but the contents have been revised and updated. The second edition also offers new topics and approaches that have emerged as critical issues in contemporary transport systems, including security, energy, supply chain management and GIS-T. Relevant case studies have also been included in the second edition to underline real world issues related to transport geography.

Some key points of the second edition:

• Updated and revised conceptual and methodological material to reflect the most current issues in transport geography.
• A case study for each chapter addressing a real world transportation geography issue.
• Reorganization of the text to improve readability and continuity.
• Updated and improved figures and maps.
• Continuously updated and revised supporting web site.

Mainly aimed at an undergraduate audience, this edition of "The Geography of transport systems" provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. It is highly illustrated and a companion web site has also been enhanced for the book. It contains PowerPoint slides, exercises, databases and GIS datasets and can be accessed at http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans

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This is a book I've wanted to lay my hands on for a long time. This is a book that every geographer with an interest in transportation should read. It is also a book that every transportationist with a sense for geography should read. Even if your main focus is just transportation and nowhere near geography, this book will fascinate, because it so brilliantly explains, explores, researches and reviews the spatial impact of transportation systems and how they have shaped the world that surrounds us.

Transportation networks are the main arteries of society, ensuring a 24/7 operation ofthe community we live in. Transportation systems are also essential to supply chains. Without a proper transportation system supply chains cannot function properly. However,the menial day-to-day operations related to transportation are often overlooked in supply chain management. This book goes a long way in bridging this gap, as it touches upon topics such as freight transport and locations of terminals. It also extends the term supply chain by introducing a new term: the commodity chain.

It is not often that I fall in love with textbooks at first sight, and this is a book that will not spend much time collecting dust in my bookshelf, as I will read and use it again and again...

a pratical introdution
it's easy to read and has a compreensive exposition of the issues. ... Read more

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Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included; merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into an innovative framework for sustainable systems. ... Read more

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This Book Joins my List of Great Books at Wrong Price
If the author will get in touch with me I can publish the book for sale at a cost of no morethan $39.95.If a digital copy of the book is available, I would like to post it immediately.

This book is an example of what happens when authors do not demand control over the pricing of their work.

This is an important topic, and no doubt a superb book, but this publisher is "out of control" and should be driven out of business by smart buyers who refuse to spend money foolishly.As a publisher myself, I can tell you that books like this cost no more than a penny a page to print.

Sadly, Amazon has refused my suggestion that they offer authors a direct publishing deal in which digital copies are delivered to Amazon where they can be sold as micro-text for micro-cash, or sold by the chapter, or sold as a digital transfer to the nearest FedExKinko's where they are perfectly capable of printing a hard copy book "one at a time."

I care deeply about using knowledge to save Humanity and the Planet, and seeing prices like this on worthy books makes my blood boil.Search Amazon for this topic, there are at least ten other books on this topic that are more honorably priced. ... Read more

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In Telegraph Messenger Boys Gegory J. Downey provides an entirely new perspective on the telegraph system: a communications network that revolutionizd human perceptions of time and space. The book goes beynd the advent of the telegraphy and tells a broader story of human interaction with technology and the social and cultural changes it brought about. ... Read more

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A significant part of understanding how people use geographicinformation and technology concerns human cognition. This bookprovides the first comprehensive in-depth examination of the cognitiveaspects of human--computer interaction for geographicinformation systems (GIS). Cognitive aspects are treated in relationto individual, group, behavioral, institutional, and culturalperspectives. Extensions of GIS in the form of spatial decisionsupport systems and SDSS for groups are part of the geographicinformation technology considered. Audience: Geographic information users, systems analysts andsystem designers, researchers in human--computer interactionwill find this book an information resource for understandingcognitive aspects of geographic information technology use, and themethods appropriate for examining this use. ... Read more

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With detailed data from nine sites around the world, the authors examine how the so-called ‘fragmentation’ of these fragile landscapes occurs and the consequences of this break-up for ecosystems and the people who depend on them. ‘Rangelands’ make up a quarter of the world’s landscape, and here, the case is developed that while fragmentation arises from different natural, social and economic conditions worldwide, it creates similar outcomes for human and natural systems.

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"Certificate Physical and Human Geography" brings together all the main aspects of physical geography, world climatic and vegetational regions and human geography so that the relationships between them can be easily appreciated. Local examples have been used as often as possible to give students a more thorough understanding of the principles involved. Maps, diagrams, graphs and photographs assist students in their interpretation of geographical facts. Questions and exercises are included to enable students to test their own understanding of the subject. ... Read more

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Reassesses the history and operation of post-war global politics, presenting a new and satisfying explanation of how international relations and strategy work. Contains a theoretical perspective on superpowers in the international system, an original researched investigation of how superpower relations ended during the Cold War and explores current geopolitical change along with the future and adjustment of the U.S. to the new world order. ... Read more

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This book ties the settlement geography and history of specific city-systems together in a unified framework. The process of population concentration and dispersion within each city-system is explained using a general model that allows particular interconnections of geography and history to be explored. Preface; Acknowledgements; We would like to dedicate this work to the late Carville Earle whose teaching and writings on geographical history are the inspiration for this work. We would also like to acknowledge our families, our friends, and this beautiful nation, whose geography fascinates us, and whose history enlivens us. ... Read more

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This book is an attempt to explain Japanese regional structureand associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. It is extremelyeffective to use the urban systems approach to explain the regionalchanges in today's Japan, which is undergoing changes wrought byeconomic globalization and the information revolution. This is becausethe transformation into a service economy has become the key componentof the economic activities of cities, linkages are being mutuallystrengthened, and regional development is being determined by theinterdependency of cities.
Readers hoping to gain an understanding of the regional geography ofJapan may feel that the structure and content of this book are lackingsomething. However, it is not the intention of this book tosystematically paint a total geographical image of Japan within thecontext of East Asia. Instead, by focusing on urban systems theory, itmight be possible to theorize about the factors related to thechanging geography of Japan, such as the growth and decline processesof Japanese urban systems, the strengthening of ties among cities andassociated factors, and the expansion of socioeconomic exchanges withcities overseas, from a perspective that is different from theconventional approach. ... Read more

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Geographic information systems (GIS) are moving out of thecomputer lab and into the community. In the 12 stories presented in Zeroing In,people who use GIS in their daily jobs talk about how the technology helps themget the information they need to work smarter and make better decisions. Thebook shows GIS at work in every aspect of community life: schools, public safety,housing, economic growth, and more.

An accessible and engaging introduction to geographic information systems (GIS)for government officials, business people, planners, teachers--indeed, anyone whodeals with maps and geographic information.Readers will learn how they can useGIS to work more efficiently and improve the quality of life in your community.Please read the Excerpt section on this page for more information. ... Read more

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Humans did not begin as a global species; we had to expand to become one. And we could not have done so without other living organisms becoming global along with us. Robert P. Clark develops in this book a global life systems perspective that delineates how biological forces mutually reinforce one another--and what their globalization has meant for both human society and the biosphere. While he resists biological "determinism," Clark traces interconnected developments among population, disease, agriculture, trade, fuels, and other life systems to more thoroughly explore and elucidate the globalization of human endeavors within an ever evolving context of nature and environment. His lucid and richly documented book offers a fresh look at social evolution and a broader basis for understanding the contemporary context for global change. ... Read more

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Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries. They range from Local Exchange Trading Schemes (UK), to Time Dollars (US), Green Dollars (New Zealand, Australia and Canada), Trading Circles (Hungary), Barter Networks (Argentina) and Talents (Germany). Drawing on an ethnographic case study of alternative currency movements in Manchester, UK, this book provides an analysis of the motivations, aims, successes and failures of alternative currency networks. It also raises questions such as the contribution of the alternative currency movement to current debates about alternatives to neoliberalism. While it is theoretically informed, critical and grounded in fieldwork, it is also sympathetic to the political aims of the protagonists and cognisant of the non-economic benefits that arise from their development. ... Read more