Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach: 2 (Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference) By Stephen Wickler, Sebastián Munoz, Mariana Mondini
2016 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1785705156 | EPUB | 9 MB

Equity in Health and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: Multidisciplinary Interventions at International and National Level by Alessandra Battisti, Maurizio Marceca, Giuseppe Ricotta, Silvia Iorio
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 235 Pages | ISBN : 3031161815 | 58.9 MB
The book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas. Thanks to the increasingly tight connection among urbanism, architecture, bioethics, anthropology, sociology and medicine, we are now reaching an "ecological" health perspective. This new viewpoint has pushed the study of social health determinants and their unequal distribution in the population, resulting in the study of the generation of structurally-determined differences in health and healthcare. There is the need to make use of a unitary framework in order to understand the intertwining of multidimensional dynamics that define the urban context and the need to disseminate, enhance, and improve existing interventions in the field. This volume consequently results in the discussion and comparison of contents and methods to be implemented in multidisciplinary interventions related to the promotion of community-based healthcare and health in the urban setting.

Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness by Jennifer Sweeton
English | November 30, 2021 | ISBN: 0393714136 | 248 pages | PDF | 3.46 Mb
Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy.

Published 11/2022
Created by Lakshmi Narayana
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 69 Lectures ( 7h 56m ) | Size: 10.1 GB

Published 11/2022
Created by Lakshmi Narayana
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Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 66 Lectures ( 7h 28m ) | Size: 9.56 GB

Asghar Khan, "Mainstreaming the Tribal Areas "
English | ISBN: 9811917930 | 2022 | 410 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The book addresses why the Pakistani state is facing persistent challenges in extending and consolidating its governance (authority) throughout its territories, especially in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (ex-FATA)? Even after the de jure merger, the question still remains valid that how Pakistani state could establish its governance in these tribal areas? Through multi-dimensional approaches and multi-pronged analysis of state-centric (top-down), society-centric (bottom-up) and state-in-society (mixed-horizontal) approaches, the book explains factors and dimensions that pose challenges to Pakistani state governance in ex-FATA. The main hypothesis is that societies, where state governance is absent, turn to informal governance and create informal institutions as a substitute for the weak central state governance thereby challenging the domination and control/authority of the state. The book presents policy recommendations for bringing these tribal areas into the mainstream governance system of Pakistan.

Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas By
2005 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 0470858141 | PDF | 35 MB
A comprehensive overview ofinteraction ofthe major hydrological and meteorological processes in mountain areas ie Cryosphere and Climatic Change, Snow Melt and Soil Water, Run-off and Floods, Water fluxes and Water Balance, Hydro-meteorological Coupling and Modelling. Each section will reviewrecent research in the field and illustrate key interactions with case studies from mountainous regions in Europe, The Americas and Central Asia.Content: Chapter 1 Alpine Climate Change and Cryospheric Responses: An Introduction (pages 1-4): Roger G. BarryChapter 2 Use of Positive Degree?Day Methods for Calculating Snow and Ice Melting and Discharge in Glacierized Basins in the Langtang Valley, Central Nepal (pages 5-14): Rijan B. Kayastha, Yutaka Ageta and Koji FujitaChapter 3 Surface Energy Balance of High Altitude Glaciers in the Central Andes: The Effect of Snow Penitentes (pages 15-27): Javier G. Corripio and Ross S. PurvesChapter 4 Using Subgrid Parameterisation and a Forest Canopy Climate Model for Improving Forecasts of Snowmelt Runoff (pages 29-44): Ulrich Strasser and Pierre EtcheversChapter 5 Assessment of Snow?Covered Areas Using Air Temperatures During Melt in a Mountainous Basin (pages 45-55): Pratap Singh and Lars BengtssonChapter 6 Permafrost Monitoring in High Mountain Areas Using a Coupled Geophysical and Meteorological Approach (pages 57-71): Christian Hauck, Daniel Vonder Muhll and Martin HoelzleChapter 7 Effects of Frozen Soil on the Groundwater Recharge in Alpine Areas (pages 73-83): Daniel Bayard and Manfred StahliChapter 8 Water Balance in Surface Soil: Analytical Solutions of Flow Equations and Measurements in the Alpine Toce Valley (pages 85-100): Marilena Menziani, Sergio Pugnaghi, Sergio Vincenzi and Renato SantangeloChapter 9 Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Water Retention Relationships for Alpine Mountain Soils (pages 101-121): Stefano Barontini, Alberto Clerici, Roberto Ranzi and Baldassare BacchiChapter 10 Water Balance Modeling with Fuzzy Parameterizations: Application to An Alpine Catchment (pages 123-146): Gerald Eder, Hans?Peter Nachtnebel and Murugesu SivapalanChapter 11 Water Relations of an Old?Growth Douglas Fir Stand (pages 147-159): Timothy E. Link, Gerald N. Flerchinger, Mike Unsworth and Danny MarksChapter 12 Comparison of Evapotranspiration and Condensation Measurements between the Giant Mountains and the Alps (pages 161-183): Carmen De Jong, Marco Mundelius and Krzysztof MigalaChapter 13 Climatologic and Hydrologic Coupling in the Ecology of Norwegian High Mountain Catchments (pages 185-214): Jorg Loffler and Ole Ro?lerChapter 14 Runoff and Floods in the Alps: An Overview (pages 215-220): Baldassare Bacchi and Vigilio VilliChapter 15 The Use of Coupled Meteorological and Hydrological Models for Flash Flood Simulation (pages 221-232): Charles A. Lin, Lei Wen, Diane Chaumont and Michel BelandChapter 16 Operational Weather Radar Assessment of Convective Precipitation as an Input to Flood Modelling in Mountainous Basins (pages 233-246): Stefan Uhlenbrook and Doerthe TetzlaffChapter 17 Geomorphological Zoning: An Improvement to Coupling Alpine Hydrology and Meteorology? (pages 247-260): Carmen De Jong, Peter Ergenzinger, Martin Borufka, Arne Kocher and Martin DresenChapter 18 The Influence of Glacier Retreat on Water Yield from High Mountain Areas: Comparison of Alps and Central Asia (pages 261-275): Wilfried Hagg and Ludwig BraunChapter 19 Snowmelt under Different Temperature Increase Scenarios in the Swiss Alps (pages 277-289): Franziska Keller and Stephane GoyetteChapter 20 Climate Variability, Water Resources, and Hydrologic Extremes - Modeling the Water and Energy Budgets (pages 291-306): Osman Yildiz and Ana P. Barros

Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly, "India's Scheduled Areas: Untangling Governance, Law and Politics"
English | ISBN: 1138583723 | 2019 | 204 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas. The Scheduled Areas (SAs) are those parts of the country which have been identified by the Fifth and Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India and are inhabited predominantly by tribal communities or Scheduled Tribes. SAs are often identified by their geographical isolation, primitive economies, and relatively egalitarian and closely knit society. Irrespective of the constitutional provision for governance and a mandate of devolution of power in terms of funds, functions and functionaries, the backwardness of these areas have remained a challenge.

Peter Dannenberg, "Economic Development in Rural Areas: Functional and Multifunctional Approaches "
English | ISBN: 1472444817 | 2015 | 252 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory. In rural areas of industrialized societies, food production as a basis for growth and employment has been declining for many decades. In the Global South, on the other hand, food production is still often the most important factor for socio-economic development. However, rural areas both in the industrialized north and in the global south are facing new challenges which lead to significant changes and threats to their development. New forms of food production, but also new functional (e.g. housing or business parks) and often multifunctional approaches are being discussed and practiced yet it remains unclear the extent to which these result in better or more sustainable development of rural areas.

Brett M. Bennett, "Plantations and Protected Areas: A Global History of Forest Management"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0262029936 | PDF | pages: 217 | 1.2 mb
How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.