Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/ Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological-economic methodologies, computer models, business alliances, and regulatory conditions creating the conditions in which nature can be produced as enterprising Relates lively, f ...
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared s ...
In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact. Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics Explores how political disputes have come to revolve ...
Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban pol ...
Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for ‘appropriate’ acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodity Bridges the fields of human geography and anthropo ...
Фотоальбом Андрея Нечаева рассказывает с помощью снимков и подписей к ним об уникальных природных уголках полуострова Камчатка. Подписи к фотографиям, заголовки частей издания представлены на двух языках: русском и английском. ...
Вулкан – одно из самых грозных и величественных творений природы. Испокон века вулканические извержения сеяли по миру страх, смерть и разрушения. Но люди, пренебрегая опасностями, продолжали жить рядом с вулканами, пытаясь понять и предсказать их поведение. Эта книга рассказывает о вулканах Камчатки. Действующих и потухших, молодых и старых, смертоносных и миролюбивых. Об их уникальном разнообразии, богатой истории, сложном характере и незабывае ...
«В середине семнадцатого века, когда русские казаки, достигшие крайних северо-восточных пределов Азии, утвердились на Анадыре, стали поступать первые известия о существовании на юге большого „носа“ – полуострова, названного впоследствии Камчаткой. Архивные исследования, проведенные историком Борисом Полевым, показали, что первым русским, увидевшим Камчатку, был знаменитый землепроходец, первооткрыватель Колымы, Михаил Стадухин. В 1651 году он вы ...