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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher gomez”
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  • Point Cloud Technologies for Geomorphologists

    From Data Acquisition to Processing

    by Christopher Gomez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Starting from concrete examples in Geomorphology, this comprehensive textbook explains to graduate and postgraduate students, point-cloud data technology and associated methods from acquisition to final-product generation. In the last few decades, Geo-sciences have experienced a paradigm shift from the challenge of collecting enough data to the need of creating new processing tools that can handle ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Disaster Risk

    by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Christopher Gomez, Ksenia Chmutina, Dewald van Niekerk, Emmanuel Raju, Victor Marchezini, Jake Rom Cadag, JC Gaillard ...
    The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Forests under Fire

    A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest

    Edited by Christopher J. Huggard, Arthur R. Gómez ...
    The devastating fire that swept through Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the spring of 2000 may have been caused by one controlled burn gone wild, but it was far from an isolated event. All through the twentieth century, our national forests have been under assault from all sides: first ranchers and loggers laid their claims to our national forests, then recreationists and environmentalists spoke up for ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics

    by John M. Reynolds ...
    An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, 2nd Edition, describes the rapidly developing field of near-surface geophysics. The book covers a range of applications including mineral, hydrocarbon and groundwater exploration, and emphasises the use of geophysics in civil engineering and in environmental investigations. Following on from the international popularity of the first edition, ... Read more

    $72.00 USD

  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...
    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • All Our Relations

    Native Struggles for Land and Life

    by Winona LaDuke ...
    How Native American history can guide us today: "Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos." — Whole EarthWritten by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among "America's fifty most promising leaders under forty" by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

    by Sam J. Purkis, Victor V. Klemas ...
    Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change. It is used routinely in the assessment and mapping of biodiversity over large areas, in the monitoring of changes to the physical environment, in assessing threats to various components of natural systems, and in the identification of priority areas for conservation.This book presents the ... Read more

    $87.00 USD

  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

    by Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...
    'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    by Donald Worster ...
    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications

    by Pinliang Dong, Qi Chen ...
    Series series Remote Sensing Applications Series
    Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry, ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric engineering, LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications expertly joins LiDAR principles, data processing basics, applications, and hands-on practices in one comprehensive source.The LiDAR data within this book is collected from 27 areas in ... Read more

    $135.99 USD

  • Recovering the Sacred

    The Power of Naming and Claiming

    by Winona LaDuke ...
    "Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans . . . LaDuke is able to transform highly complex issues into stories that touch the heart." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United StatesThe indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolution of Geotech - 25 Years of Innovation

    Edited by Reginald Hammah, Thamer Yacoub, Alison McQuillan, John Curran ...
    This publication includes 82 technical papers presented at Rocscience International Conference (RIC) 2021, held online on April 20 and 21, 2021. Rocscience created this event to bring geotechnical academics, researchers and practitioners together to exchange ideas as part of celebrating 25 years of the company’s existence.The papers in these proceedings were from keynotes, panel discussions and ... Read more

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