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Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
Multicriteria analysis, or MCA, has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action by integrating factual information with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement. Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making provides an introduction to the key concepts of MCA and includes a series of case …
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Good Vibrations: Clichy Batignolles: Lot E8 & Parc 1
The Clichy-Batignolles stand as a new urban landscape liaison element, an essential urban portal along the peripheric territorial arc, just by the historic city. The site thus becomes an important urban platform, a place of exchange in the relational-spaces web organization of Paris. It shall serve as connection point for the various territorial, urban, environmental, social and cultural scales…
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- 9781638409052
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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United StatesThe Challe…
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. With the help of in-depth case studies of three well-known attempts to create such markets––in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Ohio River basin and the Willamette River basin––the book explains why very f…
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- 9781783086047
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America Recovered
America Recovered reveals the point where abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing an alternate means of experiencing the contemporary American landscape. Collectively, the images and essays show what aspects of our everyday lives are being assigned value in the promise of a recovered America. America Recovered collects forty images that mark one of…
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- 9781638409168
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The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing aut…
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- 9781783086719
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Made UpDesign's Fictions
Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around "design fiction"—a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design's Fictions advances contemporary analysis and en…
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- 9781638409236
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Obispos y Catedrales. Arte en la Castilla BajjomedievalBishops and Cathedrals…
En el grupo de promotores medievales que, sin lugar a dudas, determinaron la forma, funcióny significado de las obras de arte, destacan los prelados. El papel de los obispos en las tareas constructivas y en el encargo de objetos suntuarios fue esencial porque, aunque muchos de ellos dedicaron poco tiempo a la atención de sus sedes y derivaron la responsabilidad de la organización de la Igles…
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- 9783034333344
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- 1 online resource (686 pages)
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LA Forum ReaderFrom the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture an…
The LA Forum Reader brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the long-running LA Forum Newsle…
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- 9781638409182
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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El patrimonio urbano del sur de La Habana
El patrimonio urbano del sur de La Habana sistematiza por primera vez la historia urbana del sur del antiguo municipio La Habana, amplia zona donde vive el mayor porcentaje de población de la capital, y existen altos valores patrimoniales. Constituye un documento básico para el estudio histórico, urbano y arquitectónico de conocidos barrios como Jesús del Monte, Luyanó, La Víbora, Arroyo…
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- 9781433167416
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- 1 online resource (194 pages)
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Layered Landscapes LofotenUnderstanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change
This book discusses approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.Layered Landscapes Lofoten, Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change aims to challenge internalized concepts about how landscapes are considered and investigated, to open for alternative res…
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- 9781638409212
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