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People and Physical Environment, A Global Approach provides an introduction to the main areas of environmental concern for geographers, environmental scientists and planners at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These include:* Pollution of the atmosphere and its impact on our climate; * The exploitation of the oceans; * Management and supply of fresh water; * Degradation of the land, and * Biodiversity, and the need to maintain genetic diversity.The book argues that our knowledge and understanding of the environment is now so great that we can predict with considerable accuracy where the skills of science and technology need to be focussed in order to prevent severe environmental damage from occurring. Achieving successful management of the environment has become dependent upon active participation of a society prepared to pay for a high quality of life and the willingness of our elected politicians to legislate and enforce the very highest standards of environmental management.This book will be essential reading for students of geography, environmental studies/science and land use planners and will also contribute valuable information for climatology, biogeography, hydrology, land economy and forestry students. ... Read more

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The aim of this book is to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research findings for land and urban development and blends these with a focus on research design and methodology. Its findings have relevance beyond the topics of housing and land: it broaches the whole question of how research design and general approach may lead to fundamentally different findings, different priorities, and different policy prescriptions and preoccupations. It is based on work done in the Third World, but is also relevant to studies of the industrialized world. ... Read more

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The aim of this book is to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research findings for land and urban development and blends these with a focus on research design and methodology. Its findings have relevance beyond the topics of housing and land: it broaches the whole question of how research design and general approach may lead to fundamentally different findings, different priorities, and different policy prescriptions and preoccupations. It is based on work done in the Third World, but is also relevant to studies of the industrialized world. ... Read more

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The people of Wales, their struggles and achievements, their life-styles and day-to-day concerns, are the subject of this wide-ranging study. Their story is placed within the wider political and social context, so that changes spanning 1000 years of Welsh history are comprehensively documented. ... Read more

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Presents the life and times of William Shakespeare and provides guidelines on staging scenes from three of his plays. ... Read more

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This is a time of dramatic change in Welsh education. Theyear 1991 saw the Secretary of State for Wales give notice that hewill assume control of all education in Wales for the firsttime. Furthermore pupils, teachers, parents, governors, schools andlocal education authorities are still coming to terms with theimplications of the 1988 Education Act. It is a highly appropriatemoment, therefore, to invite comment on past and present developmentsin education from representatives of colleges, local authorities, theinspectorate and the schools on some of the major issues whichconfront educationalists in Wales and beyond. Seventeen notableexperts have contributed essays to this volume, sponsored by theUniversity of Wales Faculty of Education, in honour of J. R. Webster,to mark his retirement as Professor of Education at the UniversityCollege of Wales, Aberystwyth. ... Read more

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This collection of tutorial and research papers introduces readers to diverse areas of modern pure and applied algebraic combinatorics and finite geometries with a special emphasis on algorithmic aspects and the use of the theory of Gröbner bases.

Topics covered include coherent configurations, association schemes, permutation groups, Latin squares, the Jacobian conjecture, mathematical chemistry, extremal combinatorics, coding theory, designs, etc. Special attention is paid to the description of innovative practical algorithms and their implementation in software packages such as GAP and MAGMA.

Readers will benefit from the exceptional combination of instructive training goals with the presentation of significant new scientific results of an interdisciplinary nature.