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The hegemonic perspective on adaptation solely focuses on climate stimuli as the driving force behind peoples adaptation. Such a perspective underestimates the role played by historical trajectories of political and social forces of change in shaping current adaptation practices. In doing so, it also separates the environment from processes of social change. This work challenges this dominant view by arguing that adaptation practices pursued by pastoral communities need to be seen at the intersection of state-environment-pastoralists-interactions. In other words, the understanding of pastoralists risk management and livelihood practices requires a perspective that situates local actors into their broader socio-political and environmental contexts. By using a political ecology approach that emphasizes on the agency of pastoral actors, this work demonstrates how the Karrayyu pastoral groups of upper Awash valley develop and use various risk management and livelihood practices under the influence of both socio-political and ecological sources of change.

The regional economic development model of the Chinese Pearl River Delta is under increasing pressure to adapt. Local firms and their business models are faced with growing competition from other Chinese regions and Asian economies. Along with a slowdown in economic growth, firms and policy-makers are called for a reorganization of business models as well as for an overall adjustment of the regional economic growth model and economic upgrading.Based on a case study of the electronics industry and supported by a mixed-methods approach, this e-book analyzes the role of formal and informal institutions for the process of regional economic adjustment and allows for an in-depth view into the changing economic landscape of the production cluster in the Pearl River Delta. It contributes to the emerging field of empirical studies on institutions and economic development in geography.Following a discussion of the role of institutions and innovation for regional economic change, four empirical chapters elaborate the role of firms strategic adaptation, the role of financial markets for firm innovation, the use of supply-chains for interactive learning, and the role of the party administration and informality for the process regional economic adjustment.

The Greater Pearl River Delta (China) is one of the worlds mega-city regions. Its electronics industry is an important driver for economic growth and prosperity in China with firms that are highly flexible and quickly adapting to changing markets.The objective of this volume is to understand how informal modes of governance in customer and producer relations contribute to a flexible production network. It investigates whether informal interactions make up for constantly changing formal regulations in China or smooth business operations as an innovative mean to manage a firms network.The findings show that firms in the Greater Pearl River Delta organise their network by using a combination of formal and informal means in recruiting, contracting and enforcing processes. This research contributes to a better understanding of the complex business model in China and its implications for organisational novelty as such.

Constructing more inclusive political spaces has been a central concern of social movements in postcolonial societies. This e-book engages with Ecuadors recent processes of political transformation by questioning to what extent these contribute to a decolonization of Ecuadors democracy.Based on visual ethnographic research in Ecuadorian local politics, it interrogates the effect of womens and indigenous peoples political participation on building more inclusive, intercultural political spaces. The volume develops a poststructuralist electoral geography capturing the embodied, emotional, and intersectional performances that produce political spaces.In doing so, it breaks new empirical ground and expands the field of electoral geography, connecting it to current conceptual debates in human geography.

This e-book addresses questions surrounding the constructions of space, culture, society, identity and representation. The geography of cinema extends beyond the screen, director and audience, to include the wider industrial and political complex of the cultural economy. In this sense, culture can be viewed as an economic commodity set within the broader frame of globalization and postmodernism. A cinematic world occupies a territory between our citys streets, the Cineplex, the TV set, and our geographical imagination and identity. These contexts invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of film as well as global cinema, hapticalities of viewing, critical political economies, and cinematic ethnographies. This collection provides unique and eclectic insights into the exciting and emerging subfield of film geography.

This e-book adopts a unique perspective on journalism by considering it as a practice of cartography. Through every aspect of their work, journalists describe and define their community and situate that community within the larger world. With words, images, and sounds, journalists: sketch out the boundaries of community; define its values; identify key components of its political, economic, and cultural infrastructure; describe its constituents; position community with respect to neighbouring communities; highlight other constituencies with which this community has important ties; and relegate to the margins great portions of the rest of the world. These news reports create mental maps for news audiences, cartographies of the imagination, from whatever news sources they draw upon. Because access to the world is highly mediated, it is largely through news reporting and commentary that we come to know that world. Thus, these maps of the news wield considerable symbolic power, feeding the social imaginary. News media power is two-fold. First, it is the power of selection, one of inclusion and exclusion, exposure and suppression. Second, it is the power of categorization, entailing classification, definition, and suppression.

Explaining Heideggers ideas on spatial phenomena simply and succinctly, this e-book will be provocative and invaluable to anyone interested in space and spatial theory. The author gives incisive, informative, and compelling analyses of Heideggers overall philosophy and of his changing ideas about space, spatiality, the clearing, places, sites, and dwelling. This study also charts the legacy of these ideas in philosophy, geography, architecture, and anthropology and includes a bibliography of select works that examine or are influenced by Heideggers ideas on space.

In this second edition of essays David Harvey searches for adequate conceptualizations of space and of uneven geographical development that will help to understand the new historical geography of global capitalism. The theory of uneven geographical development needs further examination: The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes across and between spaces of the world economy cries out for better historical-geographical analysis and theoretical interpretation. The political necessity is just as urgent since social inequalities have increased in recent decades. Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. Simultaneously, the different oppositional movements to neoliberalism create both opportunities and barriers in the search for alternatives. Harvey shows that this search needs to be supported by a deeper theoretical understanding of the roles of space and uneven geographical development in shaping the world around us.

There is a reason that the story of globalization pre-sented in this atlas starts in Middlebury. It is in this small Vermont town, home of Middlebury College, where the concept for this atlas was conceived and developed, where most of the maps were designed and drafted, and where the analytical texts were dis cussed and crafted. As critical scholars and profes sors at this liberal arts college, we are keenly aware of the need for fact-based analysis and of the dearth of reliable maps about global processes and flows. We joined together to create an illustrated text that could cast light on the complex nature of globalization. We developed a comprehensive outline of topics and a list of about 100 maps. We were fortunate to have drafts of about half of the maps from the Perthes World Atlas that Guntram had edited previously, but it was clear that we needed to make substantial revisions, develop at least 50 maps on our own, and design a companion website for data updates and additional imagery. We decided to draw on the skills and insight of our students to master this challenge, not just to help us conduct research and design maps, but also to bounce off ideas for the text and maps, and to develop an atlas that was most effective for classroom use. We recruited 15 Middlebury College student research assistants with profound inter-national experience and training in data manage ment and visualizations, such as Q-GIS, Adobe Illustrator, and coding. As a team, we researched options for data collection, discussed strategies for the best representation of data classes, and con ferred about design choices. We faced many difficult choices, such as how to represent data for regions in the world that are occupied by foreign countries, how to draw international boundaries that are con-tested, what to use as the most reliable indicator for social phenomena, or where to source photos for the website. In the end, the strength of the education of IMPRINT our Middlebury students, our own scholarly work, the experience in the classroom, and Middleburys international links helped us address these challenges. Middlebury was instrumental in making this atlas a reality. It offered generous support for our research students and the production of the atlas and website. Its deep commitment to global education served as an inspiration. Middlebury College attracts students from all over the world who come here to pursue an undergraduate degree in liberal arts. Every summer, the campus houses its renowned language school, where students learn 13 world languages, including Abenaki, which is spoken by the Indigenous inhabi-tants who call this place home. Just up the road in the Green Mountains, the annual Bread Loaf School of English and Writers Conference draws teachers and writers from all over the globe. Middleburys presence extends far beyond the east coast. On the other side of the American continent is the Middle-bury Institute of International Studies, its Graduate School in Monterey, California, and Middlebury is in places as far-flung as China, Russia, India, France, Morocco, Cameroon, Brazil there are a total of 32 Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 16 dif-ferent countries. It is from these diver...

Alejandro de Humboldt (Tegel, 1769- 1859) es uno de los máximos representantes del Siglo de las Luces en el campo científico. Es muy difícil encontrar un personaje histórico que rivalice con él en la asociacion inconfundible de su nombre con la geografia. Eminente cientifico, se forma en fisica, geologia, astronomia, botanica y meteorologia. En nuestro pais su legado fue ampliamente difundido gracias a la traduccion que, en 1876, Bernardo Giner de los Rios realizo de Cuadros de la Naturaleza, edicion que presentamos actualizada en esta nueva coleccion.Tras obtener un permiso del ministro español Urquijo, Humboldt emprende un viaje cientifico al continente americano, cuyo resultado seria una ingente cantidad de obras cientificas que ayudaron a comprender la realidad americana en muchas de sus vertientes. Sus escritos se consideran un antecedente inmediato de la geografia humana; se intereso por el estudio de las culturas prehispanicas y asento los inicios del posterior desarrollo cientifico americano. Su doctrina social y politica influira tambien en el pensamiento de muchos lideres independentistas.Cuadros de la Naturaleza ofrece la vision humboldtiana de la ciencia geografica, cuyo objeto de estudio son los fenomenos terrestres, incluyendo al hombre, al tratar de descubrir el orden existente en las apariencias caoticas de la Naturaleza y las conexiones que se dan entre fenomenos distantes pero que obedecen a una misma causa. Humboldt utiliza un metodo empirico de observacion sistematica que, por medio del raciocinio, debe conducir a la explicacion causal de dichos fenomenos y a su comparacion con otros similares. Pero su metodo no es la simple observacion neutra; para el, al igual que para los grandes romanticos prusianos, como Schiller y Goethe, la contemplacion de la Naturaleza es fuente de placer estetico y un camino para su comprension. En Cuadros de la Naturaleza se enfatiza el goce que embarga al viajero cuando mira, con ojos admirativos, los grandes paisajes de las cordilleras americanas, sus selvas, sus rios y los restos de las civilizaciones antiguas, sin que por ello se deje llevar por construcciones ideales basadas en la especulacion.

Esta publicación surge de las recomendaciones producidas luego del primer taller nacional del Observatorio Argentino Alemán de Geodesia (AGGO por su sigla en inglés). Una de tales recomendaciones fue el establecimiento de un grupo de trabajo para identificar temas de investigacion relevantes para la comunidad nacional, relacionados con la materializacion de los sistemas de referencia de tiempo, espacio y gravedad y con las nuevas tecnicas de observacion; a partir de alli y poco despues se establecio oficialmente el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Geodesia y Geofisica de Referencia fruto de cuyo trabajo es el material presente.

Esta publicación reúne las tesis defendidas en la jornada celebrada en el 2015 entre la Universitat de Valencia y el colectivo de institutos de estudios comarcales y municipales, centrada en un tema clave y de actualidad como es el analisis y debate en torno a los resultados de las elecciones locales de 2015 y sus repercusiones territoriales en la escala local valenciana. El libro recoge las reflexiones territoriales de los institutos y docentes participantes en la jornada y pretende dar respuesta a las claves del comportamiento electoral y que implicaciones han tenido o pueden tener sobre la organizacion territorial valenciana, en materia economica, social, cultural, medioambiental, etc. En definitiva, cual es el contexto que se presenta para nuestros municipios y comarcas durante los proximos años despues de los ultimos acontecimientos politicos.

Una colección de anécdotas y episodios sorprendentes de la geografía que revelan el lado más insólito y fascinante de nuestro planeta y sus fronteras.Cuando uno empieza a estudiar geografía, los países parecen concretos, solidos y perfectamente ubicados. Pero, cuando haces zoom en el mapa, comienzas a encontrar fronteras difusas, lugares que aparecen y desaparecen, toponimos imposibles, accidentes geograficos que desafian la logica....Aqui conoceras una localidad con mil fronteras, dos continentes separados por una cuerda azul, una casa que invadio Portugal al ampliar la cocina, un pueblo con un nombre interminable y otro donde celebran tres Nocheviejas en una hora.La geografia esta llena de historiones.

Un recorrido por la historia a partir de doce mapas fundamentales.Desde la Antigüedad, los mapas han sido fundamentales a la hora de conformar nuestra visión del mundo y nuestro lugar en él. Pero lej

Connecting people with places, Londons distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.From Gertrude Bell to Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin to Jimi Hendrix, this fully updated 5th edition of The London Blue Plaque Guide has over a thousand entries and provides an essential companion to the famous people who have made their homes in the city. As the definitive guide to the fascinating historical figures who have lived in London, with updated lists of names by profession and location, it will be invaluable to residents and tourists alike.

Esta obra explora la relación entre territorio y memoria, planteando que ellas son construcciones políticas y sociales, sujetas a relaciones de poder que buscan imponer imágenes que desean volverse i

Este trabajo se ocupa de los orígenes, evolución y situación actual de la ordenación del territorio en la Comunidad Valenciana. Se trata de un campo habitualmente no demasiado estudiado entre los juristas pues, en materia de ordenacion de usos del suelo, estos suelen fijar mas su atencion en los aspectos relacionados con la ordenacion, gestion y disciplina urbanistica. El objeto de este trabajo es doble. Por una parte, se pretende abordar el analisis de los distintos aspectos juridicos de la ordenacion del territorio en la Comunidad Valenciana. Por otra parte, se trata tambien de identificar alguna de las causas por las que la ordenacion del territorio no termina de arraigar en la Comunidad Valenciana, esto es, las causas del distanciamiento entre legislacion y realidad.

Bajo la inmensidad de Ansenuza, entre espejos de agua salada y extensas playas blancas, se ocultan historias que pocos han visto. ¿Qué secretos guardan las migraciones de las aves? ¿Cómo un ecosistema aparentemente inhospito sostiene una asombrosa red de vida? A traves de una mirada curiosa y reflexiva, Ansenuza oculta invita a descubrir lo invisible: el papel de las diatomeas en el agua, la fertilidad que dejan los flamencos con su paso y la resistencia de las plantas en los salitrales. Cada pagina es un viaje entre la ciencia y la contemplacion, donde la naturaleza se convierte en narradora de su propia historia. Con una prosa envolvente y detallista, este libro nos anima a observar con nuevos ojos, a comprender la fragilidad de los ecosistemas y a sumergirnos en la belleza oculta de un paisaje que aun tiene mucho por contar. A traves de los ojos de un bioexplorador, cada rincon de Ansenuza revela sus secretos, mostrando la asombrosa interconexion de la vida en un entorno donde lo invisible es tan esencial como lo que podemos ver.

Humboldt fue científico, viajero, inventor y llegó a ser una de las personas más admiradas de su época. Heredero de la Ilustración, abandonó su Berlín natal guiado por sus inquietudes, recorrió gran parte de Europa y, tras muchas peripecias, consiguio embarcarse en una expedicion para explorar el Nuevo Mundo.No habia nada que escapara a su interes: colecciono muestras de plantas locales, estudio las especies mas peculiares, anoto las variaciones climaticas e hizo grandes contribuciones a todos los campos de la ciencia. Hijo del romanticismo aleman, aporto al estudio de la naturaleza una vision nueva, llena de sentimiento y pasion.Un hombre fuera de lo comun, que desafio todas las expectativas de quienes le rodeaban y logro reivindicar su particular vision del mundo.

El Corredor Mediterráneo, como proyecto de eje ferroviario, constituye un elemento clave de la planificación española y europea. Además de tener un papel de infraestructura de transporte, también cristaliza en cuestiones economicas y politicas a distintos niveles territoriales. Representa un cambio en la logica de ordenacion del territorio, al reforzar el eje litoral en detrimento de los enlaces radiales con la capital. En este libro se propone entender como el Corredor viene a ser un patente factor que incita a revisar el papel de los distintos actores implicados -politicos, economicos, institucionales...-, asi como a reinterpretar los paradigmas de la ordenacion del territorio e interrogar la dialectica entre las cuestiones propias de las distintas escalas territoriales. El Corredor Mediterraneo, ademas de tener un papel de infraestructura de transporte, tambien cristaliza en cuestiones economicas y politicas a distintos niveles territoriales. En este libro se propone entender como el Corredor viene a ser un patente factor que incita a revisar el papel de los distintos actores implicados - asi como a reinterpretar los paradigmas de la ordenacion del territorio