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Archaeological 3D GIS

Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting visualising and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link query and analyse in a virtual georeferenced space information collected by different specialists the book highlights how it is possible to re-think aspects of theory and practice which relate to GIS. It explores which questions can be addressed in such a new environment and how they are going to impact the way we interpret the past. By using material from several international case studies such as Pompeii Çatalhöyük as well as prehistoric and protohistoric sites in Southern Scandinavia this book discusses the use of the third dimension in support of archaeological practice. This book will be essential for researchers and scholars who focus on archaeology and spatial analysis and is designed and structured to serve as a textbook for GIS and digital archaeology courses. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management A Global Perspective

The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. tandfebooks. com/doi/view/10. 1201/9781315146638 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. GIS is used today to better understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective explores and illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development its different frameworks the many ways of measuring sustainability and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses how urban planning can shape our cities examines various spatial configurations of cities the spread of activities and the demands placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change. Written by authors with expertise on the applications of geo-information in urban management this book showcases the importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable development is still very much central in the new development agenda of the United Nations and in that sense it is of particular importance for students from both the Global South and Global North. Professionals researchers and students alike will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management. | GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management A Global Perspective

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Enterprise GIS Concepts and Applications

This book defines and discusses how the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can be incorporated into the design of Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (EGIS). The objective of EA is to develop a strategic plan that structures an organization’s resources (data information people and assets) into one team that works together to achieve the company’s objectives in an efficient agile and adaptable way. It demonstrates how EA concepts can be incorporated within EGIS by improving the system’s efficiency and reliability. Through real-world examples and step-by-step explanations the reader will reach a comfortable understanding of the theories and methods discussed in the book. | Enterprise GIS Concepts and Applications

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Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

Originally published in 1985 twenty-three chapters are brought together in 4 parts dealing with respectively problems in rural finance interest rate policies politics and finance and new directions for rural financial markets. In an introduction it is argued that cheap and abundant credit is often regarded as essential for rural development but that actions taken on the basis of this assumption have given disappointing results. Low-interest policies and the improper use of financial markets are seen as the principal reasons for this. It is recommended that higher and more flexible interest rates are allowed and that little or no attention is given to target loans. Informal lenders are thought to offer valuable services therefore they should not be discouraged. More emphasis should be put on voluntary savings mobilization and access to formal loans by non-farm rural firms. It is concluded that many traditional agricultural credit programmes are counterproductive and that attractive product and input prices together with higher yields would be more powerful in stimulating agricultural development. | Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

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GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations. With new features and significant updates that address these changes this edition remains faithful to the original vision that cartography instruction should be software agnostic. Discussing map design theory and technique rather than map design tools this book focuses on digital cartography and its best practices. This third edition has completely new sections on how to deal with maps that go viral and the ethics therein; new presentation ideas; new features such as amenities climate data and hazards; the new Equal Earth projection; and vector tile design considerations. All chapters are thoroughly updated with new illustrations and new sections for datasets that didn’t exist when the second edition was published as well as new techniques and trends in cartography. New in the third edition: A true textbook written with a friendly style and excellent examples explaining everything from layout design to fonts and colors to specific design considerations for individual feature types to static and dynamic cartography issues. Thoroughly updated with new features such as points of interest climate data hazards and buildings; new projections such as the Equal Earth projection and the Spilhaus projection; and vector tile design considerations such as label placement techniques and tricks for making world-class basemaps. Includes over 70 new map examples that display the latest techniques in cartography. Reflects on new developments in color palettes; visualization patterns; datums; and non-static output media such as animation interaction and large-format cinematic techniques that weren’t available for the second edition. Defines and illustrates new terms that have made their way into the profession over the last few years such as story maps flow maps Dorling cartograms spec sheets bivariate choropleths firefly cartography Tanaka contours and value-by-alpha. In this third edition author Gretchen Peterson takes a don’t let the technology get in the way approach to the presentation focusing on the elements of good design what makes a good map and how to get there rather than specific software tools. She provides a reference that you can thumb through time and again as you create your maps. Copiously illustrated the third edition explores novel concepts that kick-start your pursuit of map-making excellence. The book doesn’t just teach you how to design and create good maps it teaches you how to design and create superior maps. | GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

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Spatial Statistics GeoSpatial Information Modeling and Thematic Mapping

Geospatial information modeling and mapping has become an important tool for the investigation and management of natural resources at the landscape scale. Spatial Statistics: GeoSpatial Information Modeling and Thematic Mapping reviews the types and applications of geospatial information data such as remote sensing geographic information systems (GIS) and GPS as well as their integration into landscape-scale geospatial statistical models and maps. The book explores how to extract information from remotely sensed imagery GIS and GPS and how to combine this with field data—vegetation soil and environmental—to produce a spatial model that can be reconstructed and displayed using GIS software. Readers learn the requirements and limitations of each geospatial modeling and mapping tool. Case studies with real-life examples illustrate important applications of the models. Topics covered in this book include:An overview of the geospatial information sciences and technology and spatial statistics Sampling methods and applications including probability sampling and nonrandom sampling and issues to consider in sampling and plot design Fine and coarse scale variabilitySpatial sampling schemes and spatial patternLinear and spatial correlation statistics including Moran’s I Geary’s C cross-correlation statistics and inverse distance weightingGeospatial statistics analysis using stepwise regression ordinary least squares (OLS) variogram kriging spatial auto-regression binary classification trees cokriging and geospatial models for presence and absence data How to use R statistical software to work on statistical analyses and case studies and to develop a geospatial statistical model | Spatial Statistics GeoSpatial Information Modeling and Thematic Mapping

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The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book analyses the evolving nature of EU sui generis GIs by focusing on their key element the origin link and concludes that the history of the product in the broad sense has become a major factor to prove the link between a good and a specific place. For the first time this area of Intellectual Property Law is investigated from three different although interrelated perspectives: the history and comparative assessment of the systems of protection of Indications of Geographical Origin adopted in the European jurisdictions from the beginning of the 20th century; the empirical analysis of the trends emerging from the practice of EUGIs; and the policy debates surrounding them and their importance for the fulfilment of the general goals of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The result is an innovative and rounded analysis of the very nature of the EU Law of GIs that starting from its past investigates the present and the likely future of this Intellectual Property Right. This book provides an interesting and innovative contribution to the field and will be of interest to GI scholars and Intellectual Property students as well as anyone willing to gain a better understanding of this compelling area of law. | The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

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Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Images with Open Source Software

In today’s world deep learning source codes and a plethora of open access geospatial images are readily available and easily accessible. However most people are missing the educational tools to make use of this resource. Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Images with Open Source Software is the first practical book to introduce deep learning techniques using free open source tools for processing real world remote sensing images. The approaches detailed in this book are generic and can be adapted to suit many different applications for remote sensing image processing including landcover mapping forestry urban studies disaster mapping image restoration etc. Written with practitioners and students in mind this book helps link together the theory and practical use of existing tools and data to apply deep learning techniques on remote sensing images and data. Specific Features of this Book: The first book that explains how to apply deep learning techniques to public free available data (Spot-7 and Sentinel-2 images OpenStreetMap vector data) using open source software (QGIS Orfeo ToolBox TensorFlow) Presents approaches suited for real world images and data targeting large scale processing and GIS applications Introduces state of the art deep learning architecture families that can be applied to remote sensing world mainly for landcover mapping but also for generic approaches (e. g. image restoration) Suited for deep learning beginners and readers with some GIS knowledge. No coding knowledge is required to learn practical skills. Includes deep learning techniques through many step by step remote sensing data processing exercises.

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Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models GIS mapping and historical cartography databases video animations and applications for mobile devices and the web. The volume is one of the first collections of essays to integrate the theory and practice of visualization technologies with art architectural and urban history. The chapters demonstrate how new methodologies generated by technology can change and inform the way historians think and work and the potential that such methods have to revolutionize research teaching and public-facing communication. With over 30 images to support and illustrate the project’s work Visualizing Venice is ideal for academics and postgraduates of digital history digital humanities and early modern Italy. | Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

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Gentrification Trends in the United States

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood’s income level educational attainment or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole – the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification. Applying a novel method to four decades of U. S. Census data this resource for students and scholars provides a quantitative basis for the nuanced demographic trends uncovered through ethnography and other forms of qualitative research. This analysis of a rich data source characterized by a broad regional and chronological scope provides new insight into larger questions about the nature and prevalence of gentrification across the United States. Has gentrification become more common over time? Which cities have experienced the most gentrification? Is gentrification widespread or does it tend to be concentrated in a small number of cities? Has the nature of gentrification changed over time? Ideal reading for courses in real estate urban planning urban economics sociology geography econometrics and GIS this pathbreaking addition to the urban studies literature will enrich the perspective of any scholar of U. S. cities.

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Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

Originally published in 1987 this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of 'specialist consumers'. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano Yaoundé Dar es Salaam and Harare. | Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

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How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive design and produce maps in a legible clear and coherent manner drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography. This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who are beginning a course of study in geospatial sciences or who wish to begin producing their own maps. While the book assumes no a priori knowledge or experience with geospatial software it may also serve GIS analysts and technicians who wish to explore the principles of cartographic design. The first part of the book explores the key decisions behind every map with the aim of providing the reader with a solid foundation in fundamental cartography concepts. Chapters 1 through 3 review foundational mapping concepts and some of the decisions that are a part of every map. This is followed by a discussion of the guiding principles of cartographic design in Chapter 4—how to start thinking about putting a map together in an effective and legible form. Chapter 5 covers map projections the process of converting the curved earth’s surface into a flat representation appropriate for mapping. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss the use of text and color respectively. Chapter 8 reviews trends in modern cartography to summarize some of the ways the discipline is changing due to new forms of cartographic media that include 3D representations animated cartography and mobile cartography. Chapter 9 provides a literature review of the scholarship in cartography. The final component of the book shifts to applied technical concepts important to cartographic production covering data quality concepts and the acquisition of geospatial data sources (Chapter 10) and an overview of software applications particularly relevant to modern cartography production: GIS and graphics software (Chapter 11). Chapter 12 concludes the book with examples of real-world cartography projects discussing the planning data collection and design process that lead to the final map products. This book aspires to introduce readers to the foundational concepts—both theoretical and applied—they need to start the actual work of making maps. The accompanying website offers hands-on exercises to guide readers through the production of a map—from conception through to the final version—as well as PowerPoint slides that accompany the text. | How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

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Electric Field Analysis

Electric Field Analysis is both a student-friendly textbook and a valuable tool for engineers and physicists engaged in the design work of high-voltage insulation systems. The text begins by introducing the physical and mathematical fundamentals of electric fields presenting problems from power and dielectric engineering to show how the theories are put into practice. The book then describes various techniques for electric field analysis and their significance in the validation of numerically computed results as well as: Discusses finite difference finite element charge simulation and surface charge simulation methods for the numerical computation of electric fieldsProvides case studies for electric field distribution in a cable termination around a post insulator in a condenser bushing and around a gas-insulated substation (GIS) spacerExplores numerical field calculation for electric field optimization demonstrating contour correction and examining the application of artificial neural networksExplains how high-voltage field optimization studies are carried out to meet the desired engineering needsElectric Field Analysis is accompanied by an easy-to-use yet comprehensive software for electric field computation. The software along with a wealth of supporting content is available for download with qualifying course adoption.

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Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory GIS network analysis and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas ships trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage seascapes deep time social networks and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts literary materials and archaeological analysis. | Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

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Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment such as GIS and mapping climate change and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity create meaning in our lives facilitate community and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging placemaking and displacement mobility and migration intergroup conflict civic engagement social housing and urban redevelopment natural resource management and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams Mindy Fullilove Randy Hester and David Seamon to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory methods and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge identify significant advances and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions. | Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

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Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic zone. However beyond occasional national- or regional-level research there have been no attempts at a historically guided comparative archaeological survey of the Baltic zone as a whole. By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition Viking Silver Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards’ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia. It also examines the extent to which the findings mesh with literary evidence and the nature of the different societies benefiting from the influx of silver in the Viking Age. Crucially the book features a catalogue which provides a thorough overview and update of Baltic-zone hoards. Viking Silver Hoards and Containers is intended for use by students of and specialists in early medieval Viking and Slavic history and archaeology. However it will also be a useful teaching resource for other general courses in archaeology anthropology and material culture numismatics economic history religious studies GIS and statistics. | Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

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Profiting from Property in a Recession

Written by an experienced property journalist with over twenty years of insider knowledge this book provides budding property developers and investors with all they need to know to profit from property. The author offers a new twist on buy-to-let and shows how the market for renting to some groups is expanding even in these tough times. Overseas opportunities are examined too identifying which countries offer the best opportunities to buy cheap let and then sell. For investors willing to get their hands dirty there is also an explanation of exactly how to pursue a self-build or renovation project and sell at a profit – with advice on finding the right craftsmen writing contracts and monitoring progress plus selecting the best estate agent. The book also looks at how amateur investors can enter the complicated commercial sector of shops and offices and discusses property investment trusts for those with faith in the stock market. | Profiting from Property in a Recession

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Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

How does space illuminate educational inequity?Where and how can spatial analysis be used to disrupt educational inequity?Which tools are most appropriate for the spatial analysis of educational equity?This book addresses these questions and explores the use of critical spatial analysis to uncover the dimensions of entrenched and systemic racial inequities in educational settings and identify ways to redress them. The contributors to this book – some of whom are pioneering scholars of critical race spatial analysis theory and methodology – demonstrate the application of the theory and tools applied to specific locales and in doing so illustrate how this spatial and temporal lens enriches traditional approaches to research. The opening macro-theoretical chapter lays the foundation for the book rooting spatial analyses in critical commitments to studying injustice. Among the innovative methodological chapters included in this book is the re-conceptualization of mapping and space beyond the simple exploration of external spaces to considering internal geographies highlighting how the privileged may differ in socio-spatial thinking from oppressed communities and what may be learned from both perspectives; data representations that allow the construction of varied narratives based on differences in positionality and historicity of perspectives; the application of redlining to the analysis of classroom interactions; the use of historical archives to uncover the process of marginalization; and the application of techniques such as the fotonovela and GIS to identify how spaces are defined and can be reimagined. The book demonstrates the analytical and communicative power of mapping and its potential for identifying and dismantling racial injustice in education. The editors conclude by drawing connections across sections and elucidating the tensions and possibilities for future research. ContributorsBenjamin BlaisdellGraham S. GarlickLeigh Anna HidalgoMark C. HogrebeJoshua RadinskyDaniel G. SolórzanoWilliam F. TateVerónica N. VélezFederico R. Waitoller | Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

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The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design

The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to the present highlighting the careers and contributions of significant American female interior designers who were instrumental in the creation of the field of residential and commercial interior design in the United States. This book explores how interior design emerged as a distinct paying occupation in the nineteenth century thanks to a growing middle class and an increase in available cheap household goods following the Industrial Revolution. Focusing primarily on the period from 1905 to 1960 it addresses the complex relationships among professionals in the design fields the social dynamics of designer-client relationships and how class culture and family influenced their lives and careers. The book emphasizes significant female interior decorators and writers on design including Candace Wheeler Elsie de Wolfe Edith Wharton Nancy McClelland Ruby Ross Wood Dorothy Draper Eleanor McMillen Brown and Sister Parish all of whom are underrepresented in the historical record relating their stories within the context of the history of design and architecture. This book is an ideal and concise resource for students and faculty of interior design and women’s history.

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Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place. The book seeks to connect the dots of the factual and the imaginary that formaffective networks of identities which help shape local memory and sense of self and community as well as a sense of the past. It exploits the concept of make-believe spaces – in the environment storytelling and mnemonic narratives – as a social framework that aligns and informs the everyday memory worlds of communities. Drawing upon fieldwork in cultural heritage community archaeology social history and conflict history and anthropology this text offers a methodological framework within which social groups may position and enact the multiple senses of place and senses of the past inhabited and performed in different cultural contexts. This book serves to illustrate a useful visualisation methodology which can be used in participatory fieldwork and thus will be of interest to heritage specialists ethnographers and cultural geographers and oral history practitioners who will particularly find the methodology cheap easy to replicate and enjoyable for community-based projects. | Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

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Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

The concept of green growth coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate oil food and financial crises. In East Asia this concept is regarded as the key in transforming cheap-labour dependent export-oriented industries towards a more sustainable development. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia examines the beginnings of low carbon green growth in practice in East Asia and how effectively it has directed East Asian nations especially Korea China and Japan to put environment and climate challenges as the core target zone for investment and growth. Special focus is paid to energy and international trade - areas in which these nations compete with pioneered nations of Europe and the United States to develop renewable energy industries and enhance their international competitiveness. On the basis of the lessons learned in East Asia together with a comparison of Russia this book discusses the applicability and limitations of this developmental approach taken by the developing nations and resource-rich emerging economies including the conditions and contexts in which nations are able to transition into sustainable development through the use of low carbon green growth strategies.

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Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages realize high profits and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor but between efficiency and inefficiency and when automation is involved machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages and higher demand for goods and services were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices wages and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions. | Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

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Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

This edited collection captures the expertise of scholars from the US the UK Australia and Canada to catalog the rise in visual approaches in criminology. It presents examples of visual methods uses and approaches in criminology; assesses the potential for new graphic approaches to collect analyze and present data; and provides some analysis of the use of images in teaching to spur social critique and guide policy translation. The collection visually connects theory and practice by highlighting the work of criminologists who have embraced the visual turn. Contributors explore the use of cognitive maps concept and mind maps life history calendars CCTV life plots GIS and hot spot research policy graphs visual abstracts and research summaries and other visual tools in the context of criminology. Approaches building on visual sociology are also featured including a discussion of developments in documentary photography and film visual ethnography and sensory phenomenology. The book is organized thematically with each chapter following logically upon the last introducing readers to a variety of visual approaches and their application in criminology. The goals of this collected volume are three-fold. The first is to highlight how the visual has been used in criminology historically to present data contest meaning and complicate social control and make more transparent the research process. The second is to work toward some sort of definitional consistency. While a worthy endeavor this remains elusive given the assortment of uses and varying traditions from which visual criminology has emerged. The third is to try to think clearly about the role of humility. This means a willingness to acknowledge an epistemological framework and note the variety of limitations associated with trying to understand in deep and meaningful ways. For visual criminology specifically it involves the recognition that part of the power of images (whatever their construction) comes from whether we think they are beautiful or whether and/or to what extent they disrupt our understanding in one way or another. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to criminologists sociologists visual ethnographers historians and those engaged with media studies. It is a valuable supplementary text for courses in introductory criminology and criminal justice criminological theory research methods and other upper-level and senior capstone courses. | Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

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Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

For much of the past century we have viewed the issue of parking from the driver’s seat. It follows that key narratives about parking reaffirm the immediate needs of the driver. A consequence of this approach is a failure to understand the significant damage that parking causes to the destination. That damage is amplified by ‘cheap easy’ parking at the expense of place and access outcomes. Viewing parking from an urban planning and design perspective highlights different issues and opportunities. Five perspectives are offered: Place – If we gave drivers all the parking they wanted the destination would not be worth visiting. Politics – Parking is intensely territorial emotional and prone to populism and this is a barrier to strategic and sustainable parking reform. Policy – Parking tends to be focused on the ‘me here and now’ needs of the driver at the expense of bigger picture and longer term policy objectives. Price – Subsidized parking exists behind opaque pricing mechanisms. In contrast a transparent accounting of costs is a vehicle for strategic parking reform. Professional practice – Parking is a significant land-use issue located at the juncture of transport and urban planning and design. Improving urban parking outcomes requires an integrated and collaborative planning process. An alternative view of parking is timely as new technologies and economies fundamentally change everything we understand about parking. A potential paradigm shift is in the making. Rethinking Parking provides a pathway to a better parking/place balance and access to destinations worth visiting. It is valuable reading for students and professionals engaged in transport planning urban access and design. | Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

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Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

There is increasing pressure for all of us to take responsibility for our own financial security and wellbeing but we often overlook how the benefits that come with a job can help us do that. Essential Personal Finance: A Practical Guide for Employees focuses on these valuable work benefits and shows how you can build on this important foundation to achieve financial security and your life goals. This unique book explores how making effective and practical use of these work benefits (such as pension scheme life cover sick pay cheap loans savings schemes and even financial coaching) means facing up to the behavioural biases we are all plagued with. Given that these can get in the way of even the best intentions Essential Personal Finance tackles these biases head-on with practical ideas and tips for overcoming or harnessing them for good and will help you to develop a positive and fruitful relationship with your money. With financial stress being a major cause of absenteeism and sick leave low morale and lost productivity the advice in this book also offers employers enormous benefits. By empowering employees through financial education and financial awareness progressive employers will help them feel more in control of their lives and experience less stress resulting in higher morale and productivity. Offering a distinctive approach which combines academic insight with practical financial wisdom and tools this is a must-have book for all employees. It will help you make the most of everything your job has to offer so you can worry less about money and live life to the full. | Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

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Archaeological 3D GIS

GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management A Global Perspective

Enterprise GIS Concepts and Applications

Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

GIS Cartography A Guide to Effective Map Design Third Edition

Spatial Statistics GeoSpatial Information Modeling and Thematic Mapping

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Images with Open Source Software

Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Gentrification Trends in the United States

Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

Electric Field Analysis

Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

Profiting from Property in a Recession

Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design

Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

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