Tag: Geographical

Free Download Atsuyuki Okabe, "Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems"
English | 2004 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0415332508 | PDF | 9,1 mb
In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looking for a new and refreshing way to approach Islamic area studies.

Free Download Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 12th International Symposium, W2GIS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, April 4-5, 2013. Proceedings By Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto, David C. Wilson (auth.), Steve H. L. Liang, Xin Wang, Christophe Claramunt (eds.)
2013 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 3642370861 | PDF | 15 MB
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 12th International Symposium, W2GIS 2013, held in Banff, Canada, in April 2013. The 11 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully selected from 28 submissions. The program covers a wide range of topics including Spatial Semantics and Databases, Location-based Services and Applications, Trajectory Representation and Sensor Web, Spatial Analysis and Systems and Map Generation and Modeling.

Free Download Rethinking Sustainable Tourism in Geographical Environments: Theory and Practices
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031721292 | 308 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 39 MB
This book covers the current escalation of social problems related to the unstable political situation, economic crisis, as well as growing problems related to the state of the natural environment (existential climate crisis; pollution of land, oceans, and the atmosphere; severe declines in biodiversity) which requires a new rethinking of the sustainable tourism paradigm, in relation to the realities of the modern world, based on the practices observed in the tourist services sector. „Tourism is like fire, you can cook food on it, you can also burn down your house"―says the proverb. On the one hand, it allows for the regeneration of physical and mental strength of visitors, as well as provides funds for the economic development of the destination, but on the other hand, it contributes to a lot of damage to the geographical environment. The period of "stopping" of tourism during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic allowed many areas to be relieved of the tourist traffic, which resulted in the observed revitalization of the natural environment, but also huge social and economic problems in destinations that are largely dependent on income from tourism.

Free Download Xuan Zhu, "Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Approach Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032380462 | 2024 | 558 pages | PDF | 54 MB
Geographical information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for reporting on the environment, natural resources and social and economic development; modelling the environmental, biophysical, social and economic processes; assessing environmental and social impacts; evaluating environmental, social and economic policies and actions and dissimilating spatial information. Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Approach provides the fullest available introduction to GIS and their environmental, social and economic applications. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated to incorporate the key developments in GIS technology and spatial data science and their applications that have taken place in recent years.

Free Download Lemonia Ragia, Robert Laurini, Jorge Gustavo Rocha, "Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Managemen"
English | 2018 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 3030060098 | PDF | 59,1 mb
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Geographical Information Theory, Application and Management, GISTAM 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017.

Free Download Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981: The Geographical History of a Language by Charles W. J. Withers
English | December 1st, 2021 | ISBN: 0859760979 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 16.49 MB
Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago there were 250,000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 80,000.

Free Download Iain Ferris, "A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World "
English | ISBN: 1803277815 | 2024 | 350 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind considers the relationship between geography and power in the ancient Roman world, and most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products, including geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs. As Rome broke its political bounds and headed towards empire the whole city became the centre and the Roman worldview changed with it. The Roman state then needed to present to the Roman people an easily digestible narrative about its imperial ambition and imperial possessions, in a way that went beyond the fact that servitude, enslavement, and misery for many underpinned this expansion. There needed to be a publicly guided discourse centred around the smoothing out of difference, rather than its obliteration or elimination, and the presentation of many different life worlds in a familiar way using geographical information. This marked a way of directing how change could be managed and of reimagining how the world might be and might work at the intersection between selection, knowledge, and insight. Reflection and communication sought to create a communal sense of belonging. If not actually doors, these geographical images were at least windows onto self-identity and otherness, letting light in on a sombre struggle against accidie.

Free Download The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities: Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda By Ferenc Gyuris
2013 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 3319015079 | PDF | 5 MB
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. It also reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. The book explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.

Free Download Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces By Neil Wrigley, Michelle Lowe
2002 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0340706619 | PDF | 12 MB
Reading Retail captures contemporary debates on the geography of retailing and consumption spaces. It is constructed around a series of ‘readings’ from key works, and is designed to encourage readers to develop a sense of engagement with the rapidly evolving debates in this field. More than 60 edited readings are integrated into the text, providing a guided route map through the literature and into the study of the geographies of retailing and consumption. The volume also introduces readers to the exciting and interdisciplinary developments unfolding in the ‘new retail geography’, drawing on up-to-the-minute research material from areas ranging from anthropology to business studies, and tackling issues as diverse as retail internationalization and e-commerce.Reading Retail is unique in bringing together a huge range of perspectives on retailing and consumption spaces and will provide a key source text for students in this field.

Free Download Hippolyte Fofack, David Bigman, "Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation: Methodology and Applications"
English | 2000 | pages: 323 | ISBN: 0821346253 | PDF | 2,7 mb
‘..in many developing countries, there are large differences in economic conditions and the standard of living between regions, and even between communities within the same region. In many countries, poverty has a clear geographic dimension, since the poor are often concentrated in pockets of poverty. Therefore, the design of poverty alleviation policies must also have a signficant spatial component.’ Although development projects are carefully designed and meticulously evaluated for cost effectiveness and benefits, too many of them are not sufficiently targeted geographically. The growing availability and use of spatial data, organized in a computer system such as a geographical information system (GIS), makes it more feasible to analyze the impact of projects in specific locales and to achieve more effective targeting. ‘Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation’ introduces the basic concepts of a GIS. It also demonstrates how to organize geographic and nongeographic data. In addition, it presents different methods for using the data of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, together with other surveys and the population census, to provide estimates for the standard of living and the incidence of poverty incidence in different geographical areas of a country. Ultimately, these estimates should be used to establish guidelines for targeting poverty alleviation projects. This publication illustrates different GIS applications for identifying the project’s target population, determining the project’s spatial ‘sphere of influence’ or deciding where to locate public facilities. This publication is of interest to task managers, economists, development researchers, and geographers.