The Geography Of Survival

Author : Boris Komarov
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1563240769

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The Geography of Survival by Boris Komarov Pdf

Boris Komarov is the name under which Ze'ev Wolfson published his 1979 The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union in the west after he could not get it published in Moscow. He based his criticisms on his observations as an employee of the Soviet Department of Nature Preserves. Here he focuses on how aridization, the loss of natural soil, destruction of fresh water resources, and other ecological problems move across the landscape without regard to national boundaries. His examples are the migrating environmental degradations spawned by oil and gas production in Siberia and cotton production in the Aral basin. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ze'ev Wolfson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317456681

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The Geography of Survival by Ze'ev Wolfson Pdf

In 1989 a Soviet environmental expert writer under the pseudonym Boris Komarov startled the world. His book "The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union", was both a chilling description of the environmental devastation in the Soviet Union and an indictment of the official policy and public apathy that allows it to be perpetuated. Today Boris Komarov writes freely under his own name - Ze'ev Wolfson. But the ecological crisis he documents has only become more severe, more widespread, more deadly. In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out in unmistakable terms about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.

Author : Ze'ev Wolfson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317456674

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The Geography of Survival: Ecology in the Post-Soviet Era by Ze'ev Wolfson Pdf

In 1989 a Soviet environmental expert writer under the pseudonym Boris Komarov startled the world. His book "The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union", was both a chilling description of the environmental devastation in the Soviet Union and an indictment of the official policy and public apathy that allows it to be perpetuated. Today Boris Komarov writes freely under his own name - Ze'ev Wolfson. But the ecological crisis he documents has only become more severe, more widespread, more deadly. In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out in unmistakable terms about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264286764

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The Geography of Firm Dynamics: Measuring Business Demography for Regional Development by OECD Pdf

The Geography of Firm Dynamics provides methods and data to measure and analyse the creation and destruction of businesses across OECD regions.

Author : Canfei He
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000567953

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Industrial Geography in Contemporary China by Canfei He Pdf

This title provides an overall view of industrial geography in the context of contemporary China and investigates the development processes, research paradigms, and achievements of China’s industrial geography, with a particular focus on the post- reform period. The first two chapters introduce the overall background of industrialization and evolving policies of industrial geography in contemporary China. Based on sweeping literature reviews, empirical data analysis, and case studies, the author then examines key aspects of industrial geography and geographical patterns, dynamics, and the impact of industrial development. The following topics are discussed in detail: the geographical distribution and agglomeration of industries; national industrial parks; urbanization and industrialization; regional evolution of industries and interregional networks; firms and industrial organizations; exports, foreign investment, and trade; labour migration; land supply; industrial innovation; environmental issues and regulations; and industrial planning. In providing a full picture of the industrial geography of contemporary China, the title will be an essential reference for scholars and students studying economic geography, industrial geography, and the industrial and economic development of the People’s Republic of China.

Author : Candace Savage
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771003216

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A Geography of Blood by Candace Savage Pdf

When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the backroads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T. Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land -- two coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town. But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality -- a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past -- and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Deserts
ISBN : ERDC:35925000599974

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Survival Geography of South America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Rumney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810886360

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The Geography of Central America and Mexico by Thomas A. Rumney Pdf

Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America are Mexico and Central America. An area of fascination and study for geographers and scholars from around the world, for millennia these lands and people have played important roles in the discoveries and distributions of civilizations, resources, and nations. These regions have stimulated a large amount of research and publications across the sub-disciplines of geography. The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many of these publications as possible to encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing scholarship of the geography of this area, which includes Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Beginning with the region as a whole, each chapter that follows--one per nation--is divided by the specific sub-disciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is further divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries recorded focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, as well as French, German, and other languages, are included (with entries' titles translated into English and noted accordingly).

Author : John Welsted,John Everitt,Christoph Stadel
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780887550294

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The Geography of Manitoba by John Welsted,John Everitt,Christoph Stadel Pdf

Manitoba is more than one of Canada's three prairie provinces. Encompassing 649,950 square kilometres, its territory ranges from Canadian Shield to grassland, parkland, and subarctic tundra. Its physical geography has been shaped by ice-age glaciers, while its human geography reflects the influences of its various inhabitants, from the First Nations who began arriving over 9,000 years ago, to its most recent immigrants. This fascinating range of geographical elements has given Manitoba a distinct identity and makes it a unique area for study. Geography of Manitoba is the first comprehensive guide to all aspects of the human and physical geography of this unique province. Representing the work of 47 scholars, and illustrated with over 200 maps, diagrams, and photographs, it is divided into four main sections, covering the major areas of the province's geography: Physical Background; People and Settlements; Resources and Industry; and Recreation.As well as studying historical developments, the contributors to Geography of Manitoba analyse recent political and economic events in the province, including the effect of federal and provincial elections and international trade agreements. They also comment on future prospects for the province, considering areas as diverse as resource management and climatic trends.

Author : Helen Lawton Smith
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857937056

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The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship by Helen Lawton Smith Pdf

Building on a variety of contrasting perspectives, this book focuses on the connection between university spin-offs and regional economic development. It aptly captures the diverse range of concepts relating to the main participants in the process of university spin-offs, reflecting on their roles and how these may have changed.

Author : Canfei He,Shengjun Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811334474

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Evolutionary Economic Geography in China by Canfei He,Shengjun Zhu Pdf

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China’s manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective. These geographical and industrial shifts have enormous implications in and beyond China for what is possible in the post-crisis global economy. The book demonstrates that the interface between evolutionary economic geography approaches and other approaches (e.g. global value chain, global production network, institutional economic geography) could be a fertile area for further consideration. The two main audiences that this book appeals to are economic geography and regional science. The topics covered in the book are also relevant to development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies, offering academics, international researchers, post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the evolutionary economic geography in China and its interaction with firm performance and regional economic development. The book is also attractive to national policy makers, since it engages directly with economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring, and trade regulation.

Author : Colin Brock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474223256

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Geography of Education by Colin Brock Pdf

Geography of Education sets out the scope of this emergent, interdisciplinary field. It illustrates the essential affinity of geographical and educational studies, by emphasising the geographical factors influencing formal education systems and other forms of knowledge transfer. Colin Brock begins by arguing the theoretical synergy that exists between the nature of both geography and educational studies as disciplines. This is then exemplified by an analysis of the emergence of systems of schooling under the influence of religious, political and economic forces. The author also considers informal and non-formal modes of education, and argues that the huge diversity of such provision creates a rich resource for research into geographies of education. In the final chapters the author turns his attention to the role of cyberspace, which has its own geography, in learning, and considers education as a form of humanitarian response to issues of environmental sustainability. By bringing together a wide range of themes and topics relating to both education and geography, Colin Brock argues that the geographical approach should inform the evolution of all types of educational provision around the world.

Author : William Bunge
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820364995

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Fitzgerald by William Bunge Pdf

This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. Fitzgerald, at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the intensive study of a small, local place. Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and the neighborhood’s first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American settlement. Historical events are firmly situated in space—a task Bunge accomplishes through liberal use of maps and frequent references to recognizable twentieth-century landmarks. More than a work of historical geography, Fitzgerald is a political intervention. By 1967 the neighborhood was mostly African American; Black Power was ascendant; and Detroit would experience a major riot. Immersed in the daily life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to think about local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different sort of geography led him to create a work that was nothing like a typical work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book—a major theoretical contribution to urban geography that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

Author : Richard J. Chorley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000000214

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Directions in Geography by Richard J. Chorley Pdf

Originally published in 1973. This collection of essays looks at the ‘quantitative revolution’ and the ‘new geography’ by some of the geographers who had a significant part in those innovations and looks ahead to further developments. The views in the chapters are diverse and offer a fascinating glimpse of the discipline of geography as the subject was undergoing such change and becoming more socially committed. They cover theory, spatial-systems theory, forecasting, human ecology and climatology alongside the teaching of the subject. The concerns of the contemporary geographer come across and are of interest today as these areas have developed still more.

Author : Martin Obschonka,Michael Fritsch,Michael Stuetzer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788973380

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The Geography of Entrepreneurial Psychology by Martin Obschonka,Michael Fritsch,Michael Stuetzer Pdf

Psychological characteristics are significant for various stages of the entrepreneurial process on both individual and group levels. Looking into the ‘psychological context’ in entrepreneurship, Martin Obschonka reviews and defines the field, exploring the role of regional and country-level entrepreneurial personality and new trends in the geography of entrepreneurial psychology influenced by technological advances.