Well, here we are. All sitting around a cosy fire and reflecting on the HUMANE project. We invite you to join us for some storytelling about the project, about the future at sea, about seafarers, academia, and industry. About a rapidly changing world and a near-impossible undertaking of pre dicting the future. This is not about technology. It is about what we do with it, and how we ge…
Laws of the Sea assembles scholars from law, geography, anthropology, and environmental humanities to consider the possibilities of a critical ocean approach in legal studies. Unlike the United Nations’ monumental Convention on the Law of the Sea, which imagines one comprehensive constitutional framework for governing the ocean, Laws of the Sea approaches oceanic law in plural and d…
Throughout my student years, I’ve had many great teachers and colleagues. At the University of Alaska, Richard Scott, Rodger Powers, Lydia Black, and Jean Aigner completely captured my interest in anthropology. Richard Scott also taught me the humor of missteps and past anthropological conundrums. At the University of Oklahoma, my chair, Morris Foster, introduced me to the intricac…
Transportation infrastructure has a significant meaning for the economic growth, the mobility of labor, the opportunities for tendering transport services and the competitiveness of the economy as a whole. This new book presents topical research in the study of transport policy, including the European Union (EU) policy on the sustainability of transport and policy goals; public transit se…
To get yourself in the best position to begin the career of your dreams, you need to know what the “green world†will look like and what jobs will be created and what jobs will become obsolete. Just think, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following jobs are expected to severely decline by 2012:
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Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in the understanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example applications. The intellectual path of the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand is a key foundation for this book. His research contributions are shown in the cont…
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through inten…
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://e-resources.perpusnas.go.id:2122/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner�