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The largest of the world's five Mediterranean-climate regions and one of the largest archipelagos in the world, the Mediterranean Basin is located at the intersection of two major landmasses, Eurasia and Africa, which contributes to its cultural and high biodiversity. Although much of the hotspot was once covered by a dense cover of forests, the Basin has experienced intensive human development and impact on its ecosystems for at least 8000 years, significantly longer than any other hotspot. The greatest impacts have been deforestation, habitat fragmentation, intensive grazing and fires, and…
The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the “Anthropocene.” This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.
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In the Mediterranean basin, one of the richest biodiversity hotspots on the planet, evergreen oak woodlands are essential elements. This book facilitates a more detailed ecological understanding of Quercus calliprinos, a lesser-known Mediterranean forest species that could make an important contribution to the struggle to counteract climate change and biodiversity loss. The book also discusses two further crucial species of the Mediterranean evergreen woodlands, Quercus ilex and Quercus suber, focusing on the role of forest management in their conservation.
This book explores the ecology of Mediterranean evergreen oaks, vital for biodiversity. It details Quercus calliprinos’s role in combating climate change and the forest management needed to conserve crucial species like Quercus ilex and Quercus suber.
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American Turkish Encounters
Politics and Culture, 1830-1989
Turkey and the United States have been critically important to each other since the beginning of the Cold War. The history of Turkish-American relations includes not only strategic, but also political, social, cultural and intellectual dimensions. While critical to understanding Turkish-American relations, these dimensions rarely surface in today’s discourse, which reduces bilateral relations to issues currently being contested. In reality, the encounter between East and West embodied in Turkish-American interactions ranges from the official and diplomatic, to unofficial and informal exchanges at the social and individual level; while often compatible…
Turkish-American relations go beyond strategic issues. This book explores the rich social, cultural, and intellectual dimensions of this critical encounter since the Cold War, offering original perspectives for specialists and general readers alike.
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This book highlights marine pollution in the Bizerte Lagoon in Tunisia, offering insights into the distribution and source of contamination in the marine environment. It presents, for the first time, the study of the pesticides in the different compartments of the aquatic ecosystem: surface water, sediment, suspended particles and sediment cores. It provides an assessment of the quality of the lagoon environment by comparing the results found in other studies in the world and with the levels set by the Global Organization of Human Health.
This book highlights marine pollution in Tunisia’s Bizerte Lagoon, offering insights into contamination sources. It presents the first study of pesticides in the aquatic ecosystem, assessing the lagoon’s environmental quality against global health standards.
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Geography and the Space of the Sacred
The Presence of Opus Dei in Contemporary Protestantism
This book explores the geography of religion and the space of the sacred in the dynamics of the different manifestations of contemporary Christianity, in the face of the growth of Protestantism. For this, the analysis of the spirituality of Opus Dei is prioritized and the history of the emergence of the Roman doctrine and its dissemination until the present day is detailed. In order to understand the evolution of Western civilization, a sensitive approach to its religious spatiality is necessary. This spatiality manifests itself concretely in its territory, transforming…
This book explores the geography of religion and sacred space within contemporary Christianity. Through an analysis of Opus Dei, it identifies causes for the decline of Catholicism in Brazil, charting the Church’s loss of believers and territories to growing Protestantism.
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The environment in ecological systems includes both physical parameters and biotic attributes, and is a holocoenotic, dynamically interlinked system. Its investigation requires a dialectical approach which examines the different parts, but integrates the organism and the environment into a dynamic whole. Environment and ecology place emphasis on the real world. Many decisions that directly or indirectly affect the balance of our environment are based on individual, community, state, national and international decisions. Given that ecological systems now also involve the economy, ecology and its relationship with the environment are taking…
Ecology’s role is increasingly vital in our dynamic world. This book explores critical environmental topics from climate change and water scarcity to mountain ecosystems, proving fruitful for students and researchers from diverse disciplines.
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A Handbook for Entrepreneurs on Solid Waste Management
A Step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat
This book is a unique representation of the learning and experience in the area of waste management. It will work as a tool for students, young professionals and people who are passionate about building their career in the field of waste management in India. The book takes entrepreneurs through the journey of forming and working of enterprises/start-ups. It provides solutions to common concerns of entrepreneurs in the form of modules on subject matter of waste management, forming an enterprise, exploring opportunities, implementation and management of projects, and other important…
This book is a tool for students, professionals, and entrepreneurs passionate about waste management in India. It guides you through the journey of forming and running a start-up, with solutions for project management, exploring opportunities, and day-to-day operations.
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As humans we have stewardship over the environment. Man’s dominion does not mean a license to abuse, spoil, squander or destroy. Future cultures will be able to reach their potential only if this generation remembers that sustainable land use is a combination of economics, ecology and social justice. Our ancestors survived due to an innate sense of “oneness” whereby they helped each other. For them everything was “holy”. Sustaining desired ecological, economic, and social conditions in the system is a big challenge, but not an impossible task. This book presents…
How do we balance economy, ecology, and social justice for a sustainable future? Experts show the way forward in this essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals in environmental sciences, forestry, and geography.
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The tourism industry is striving hard to create attractive worlds for its customers. Both as a necessity and as a challenge, this field is overwhelmed by the imagination economy, but raises several questions about tourists, providing opportunities to move deeper into the understanding of complexities involved in relationships among tourists, tourism sites and their historical structure, and environmental sustainability. As a result of this, a serious academic interest in tourism has developed over recent decades as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment. This volume brings together…
As a result of the recent serious academic interest in tourism as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment, this volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment.
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Connections, Mobilities, Urban Prospects and Environmental Threats
The Mediterranean in Transition
This volume provides specialized insights into selected Mediterranean geographies, such as info-communication technologies, tourism, urbanization and climate change threats, with a focus on emerging and often overlooked issues, in light of the impact of current trends of globalization and the financial ‘crisis’, in the broader context of contemporary world processes of environmental change and accelerated human mobility. Specifically, the book contains sections on emergent and increasingly significant or highly innovative issues specific to the Mediterranean, often providing alternative perspectives on various pressing issues, such as the northward shift…
This volume provides specialized insights into pressing Mediterranean issues, from climate change and urbanization to tourism and info-communication technologies, offering new perspectives on emerging threats in a region at the interface of many worlds.
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This textbook will appeal to students and graduates making their first steps in the application of both microfossils and stratigraphy. It presents, in detail, the historical development of microfossil biostratigraphy, from its birth to the emergence of sequence stratigraphy, including its roots in classical biostratigraphy. The interplay between the academic and economical challenges, on one hand, and developments in microfossil biostratigraphy, on the other, is explored thoroughly. The book also presents an introduction to the scientific concepts used in microfossil biostratigraphy practice, and the uses in microbiostratigraphy of 25 groups…
For students and graduates, this textbook details the history of microfossil biostratigraphy and its core scientific concepts. It presents the practical uses of 25 microfossil groups and provides a numerical method to calculate their biostratigraphical resolution.
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Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. This international collection of essays investigates a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, urban fears and safety, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem. Also explored are the changing lifestyles in the urban environment, the increasing importance of tourism in the economy of metropolitan areas, and the interdependence of tourism, cultural heritage and local communities. The volume offers a range of case studies exploring New York, Orlando, Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon,…
Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. The essays here delve into a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem.
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This interdisciplinary book presents new research from international scholars that explores questions of belief, faith, and religion. Focusing on theoretically informed cultural, geographical and historical analyses of faith, belief, religion, society and space, the book presents new and revised theoretical approaches and methodologies, grounded in rigorous empirical research both contemporary and historical. The volume takes a deliberately eclectic approach, reflecting the complex interactions of the political and poetic dimensions of sacredness in contemporary societies. Taking this research agenda forward, this book explores how religious beliefs inform and construct social identities,…
This interdisciplinary book presents new research exploring belief, faith, and religion. It combines theoretical approaches with real-world examples to show how beliefs construct social identities, inform public debate, and shape modes of governance.
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The Mediterranean Basin is the largest of the five Mediterranean-climate regions, and one of the largest archipelagos in the world. The basin is located at the intersection of two major landmasses, Eurasia and Africa; and has around five thousand islands, which contribute much to its high diversity and spectacular scenery. It possesses higher salinity than the Atlantic. The shores are chiefly mountainous. Earthquakes and volcanic disturbances are frequent. Some of the most ancient civilizations flourished around the region. Carthagians, Greeks, Sicilians, and Romans were rivals for dominance of its shores…
The Mediterranean Basin, one of the world’s largest archipelagos, is located at the intersection of Eurasia and Africa. A cradle to ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, its shores and rich biodiversity are now threatened by overuse.
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Surrounded by Water
Landscapes, Seascapes and Cityscapes of Sardinia
This work provides insights into the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex, varied, changing and often hidden features. The title, “Surrounded by Water”, recalls the identity of a land whose coastlines and surrounding seas have symbolically represented social, economic, political, cultural bridges or walls, meeting or colliding places, over its long and difficult history. Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes are presented and analysed, together with other aspects, through a descriptive focus and original contributions provided by some local experts, in order to offer…
This work investigates the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex and varied features. Each chapter offers an analysis of a specific facet of the island, complemented with insights gained from in-depth research.
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Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas
Assembling Cultural Heritage, Development and Spatial Planning
The number of cultural parks has been steadily increasing in recent years throughout the world. But what is a cultural park? This book provides a detailed answer to this question and sets out the basis for an academic debate that moves beyond the technical narratives that have prevailed to date. It is important to open up the topic to academic scrutiny given that cultural parks are becoming widespread devices being employed by different institutions and social groups to manage and enhance cultural and natural heritage assets and…
What is a cultural park? This book answers the question, moving beyond technical narratives to provide a much-needed critical reflection. It offers a novel theoretical conceptualization of cultural parks and a methodology for their empirical analysis.
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Perceptions of Tank Cascade Systems in Sri Lanka
Cascade Ecology
Researchers have studied various aspects of the ancient civilization of Sri Lanka and probed deeply into the subject of village tank clusters (tank cascade systems) during the last 4 decades. A wealth of information was gathered and the knowledge of many components has been updated. This book brings you this updated information. The author brings new definitions of tank cascade systems and cascade ecology. The book begins with the historical perspective and moves on to explain various aspects, step by step, such as geography, geology and geomorphology, soil and climate,…
Drawing on 4 decades of research, this book brings you updated knowledge of Sri Lanka’s ancient tank cascade systems. The author offers new definitions of cascade systems and cascade ecology, exploring history, geology, water management, and the restoration of cascade ecology.
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A Geography of Horse-Riding
The Spacing of Affect, Emotion and (Dis)ability Identity through Horse-Human Encounters
This book presents an in-depth, qualitative exploration of the practice of horse-riding by “disabled” and “non-disabled” riders and their horses. Situated as part of an “affective turn” within human geography, creative and original use is made of poststructuralist theory to bring together animal studies and disability studies in order to decentre the human as we think about the social. Eighteen months of multi-sited performance ethnography “on the hoof” were conducted with riders recruited from local riding schools, an internet forum and three Riding for the…
This book explores horse-riding by disabled and non-disabled riders and their horses. It captures moments of horse-human relating, taking the embodied expressions of horses seriously as demonstrative of their individual thoughts and intentions.
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Contemporary human geography provides valuable insights into the political, social or cultural transformations of the world. The Chapters of Modern Geographical Thought is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays written by recognized scholars, covering a wide range of topics from human geography, always paying tribute to the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This book will provide students with penetrating analyses of seven fields, including critical geopolitics of film and affect, the political economy of the environment, ethnic problems in the Caucasus, the US and Mexico relations, new social movements in…
Recognized scholars offer insights into the political, social, and cultural transformations of our globalized world. These state-of-the-art essays explore diverse topics, emphasizing interconnectedness and geography’s crucial role in shaping identity.
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Place and Tourism Promotion
Urban Regeneration?
Cities around the world adopt place promotion and marketing activities as one of their development strategies. They do this through engaging in selling their images through the use of sceneries like national parks, museums, historic monuments and flag institutions such as hotels and conference facilities. These sceneries and flag institutions act as symbols to profile and market these cities to the world for different socio-economic purposes. The present book exposes some findings derived from two major study objectives done in Tanzania. One of the the objectives was to find out…
This book examines Arusha, Tanzania’s place promotion strategies. It reveals how the city uses national parks and flag institutions to attract international tourists, boosting its popularity and growing the number of visits to its attractions.
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