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41. Scale

    By Andrew Herod

    Series: Key Ideas in Geography

    Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit. Amongst other things, it allows us to declare one event or process a national one and another a global or regional one. However, geographical scales and how we think about them are profoundly...

    Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
42. Pulse-Jet Filtration: an Effective Way to Control Industrial Pollution

    Part 1: Theory, Selection and Design of Pulse-Jet Filter

    Edited by Arunangshu Mukhopadhyay

    Series: Textile Progress

    Pulse-jet filtration is described as one of the most efficient technologies in controlling industrial pollution across the world. This work presents the fundamental concepts involved in designing and developing pulse-jet filters under varied situations. It provides a comprehensive knowledge base...

    Published July 29th 2010 by CRC Press
43. In Pursuit of Sustainable Development

    New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe

    Edited by Susan Baker, Katarina Eckerberg

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
44. The Global Governance of Food

    Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke, Andrew Schrank

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us....

    Published July 6th 2010 by Routledge
45. Pulse-Jet Filtration

    An Effective Way to Control Industrial Pollution: Part II: Process Characterization and Evaluation of Filter Media

    Edited by Arunangshu Mukhopadhyay

    For successfully running industrial pulse-jet filters, the fundamentals of the filtration process and operating principle should be well understood. This book develops an in-depth understanding of the mechanism and factors governing the filtration process. It covers modeling and simulation aspects...

    Published June 24th 2010 by CRC Press
46. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

    Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

    By Simon Springer

    Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

    Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...

    Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
47. Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond

    The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary, 2nd Edition

    By Joseph Nevins

    This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to...

    Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
48. Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)

    Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography

    Edited by Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions. Five different groups of authors, who have written broadly in the fields of industrial and social geography, discuss this relationship...

    Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
49. Military Legacies

    A World Made By War

    By James A. Tyner

    Series: Global Realities

    Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand the...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
50. Survival, 51.6

    Edited by VARIOUS AUTHORS

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge