Preface. Canine Explorers in the Antarctic -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- List of Characters and Countries -- Notes on Norwegian and English Names -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Dogs, the Arctic, and Amundsen’s Clandestine Switch to the Antarctic -- Part I. The Strategic Plan, The Secret Ingredient -- Chapter 2. The Vital Importance of Sledge Dogs -- Chapter 3. Two “Eskimos” to Care for Good…
An Introduction to the Work of JWR Whitehand -- Urban Morphological Regions: Development of an Idea -- Fringe Belts -- Agents and Agency in the Urban Landscape -- Rigour and Comparison in Urban Morphology: Through the lens of JWR Whitehand. Research and Practice -- Ivor Samuels -- JWR Whitehand: 50 Years of Urban Morphological Research.Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to…
Introduction -- Overview of the Prehistory of Eura: Life Around a Few Radiocarbon Dated Spots -- Modelling of Postglacial Landscape Development -- Landscape reconstruction in Lower Satakunta -- Conclusions.This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower …
Introduction: Traditional Alpine Communities and the Challenge of Long-term Sustainability -- The Landholding Foundations of Alpine Farming -- Face to the Sun: the Exploitation of Arable -- The Ties that Bind: Livestock Farming in the Western Alps 1500-1914 -- The Alpine Commons: Resource, Regulation and Exploitation 1500-1914 -- The Alpage of the Western Alps -- Coping with Risk 1500-1914 -- E…
Management & Development of historic Area -- Cultural & Religious Identities & their manifestation of heritage -- Awareness of heritage rehabilitation project -- Legislative tools and policies for cultural heritage protection -- Economics of Conservation and Sustainable environment.History is one of the main aspects that shapes a country’s culture and leaves its traces on the built environmen…
Foreword -- Introduction: The Clock Tower -- PART I Working on the African city -- The lost cities of Africa -- The modern African city -- The other side of Zanzibar -- Popular housing in Ouagadougou -- The contemporary African city -- PART II Building in Africa -- Farewell to the African Archadia -- The Faculty of Engineering in Dar es Salaam -- A field office in Wagadogo -- Inno-native Africa…
Preface -- Ch.1. Introduction (Looking for the origins of regional spatial planning – Short presentation of chapters – Appendix on regional planning in the interwar period) -- PART I (Chapters 2-11) -- Ch.2. Historical periods, regions and examples -- Ch. 3. Greek colonization -- Ch. 4. Colonies and towns in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires -- Ch. 5. New capitals -- Ch. 6. M…
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I History and Environment in Indochina -- Part II Farmer Livelihoods, Strategies for Sustainability, and Adaption to Environmental Change -- Part III Governing Water: Values, Institutions, and Structures -- Conclusions.This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues …
Part I: Identifying the Legal Person -- 1. The Troublesome ‘Person (Bartosz Brozek) -- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine) -- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski) -- Part II Persons, Things and Rights -- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki) -- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang) -- 6. Animals' Race Agai…
Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic -- 1: Sociology in Service to Nation-Building: The Legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk -- 2: A False Beginning? The Growth and Destruction of Czech Sociology 1918-1950 -- 3: 1950-1969: Becoming a Counsellor to the Socialist Prince -- 4: 1969-1989: The Long Hour of Party Ideologists -- 5: The 1990s: Reconstruction and the T…