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This book provides timely, multidisciplinary cross-national comparison of the institutional and social processes through which renewable energy landscapes have emerged in Southern Europe. On the basis of case studies in these countries, it analyzes the way in which and the extent to which the development of renewable energies has affected landscape forms and whether or not it has contributed to a reformulation of landscape practices and values in these countries. Landscape is conceived broadly, as a material, social, political and historical process embedded into the local realm, going beyond aesthetic. The case studies analyze renewable energy landscapes in Southern Europe on different political and geographical scales and compare different types of renewable energy such as wind, hydro, solar and biomass power. The contributors are leading experts from Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students and professionals interested in geography, landscape and planning.
Can capitalism ever truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century provides a historical analysis of the relationship between business interests and environmental initiatives over the past century.
This book highlights the challenges and trends resulting from the relationship between tourist motivations, World Heritage Sites and local cultural uniqueness. With a special focus on Portugal and Brazil, several chapters refer to international cultural heritage experiences and destinations in Belgium, Cuba, Croatia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain and Turkey. The volume shows that there is some crossover between tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and explores themes such as festivals and events, marketing, branding, sustainability, authenticity, preservation, wine tourism, ethnic tourism, religious tourism, literary tourism, museology and garden tourism. It will appeal to readers interested in tourism management, quality of the tourist offer, tourism heritage products, and characteristics of the tourism demand in the scope of cultural heritage.
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Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history going back to the nineteenth century. This book explores changes in energy markets, strategies, firms and investments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The primary focus is on manufactured gas—the gas that was initially produced from coal distillation until new ways of manufacturing gas emerged after the Second World War. The expert contributors to this volume draw on their extensive research and utilise primary sources to explore a w...
Las tendencias demográficas, de desarrollo de actividades y de infraestructuras, junto con los nuevos riesgos asociados al cambio climático plantean, especialmente en las zonas costeras, un gran reto para su desarrollo seguro y sostenible. De ahí la necesidad de contribuir a la generación de bases institucionales y de política pública específicas para una gestión y desarrollo sostenible de los espacios costero-marinos. Este volumen recoge las aportaciones de distintos especialistas en materia de Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras, o del Litoral, que tuvieron oportunidad de reunirse en el Seminario Internacional titulando «Revistando la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras: Evolución del marco conceptual e institucional; análisis comparado de experiencias, modelos y estrategias; recomendaciones y propuestas de agenda futura», celebrado en Valencia en 2009.
Revista de climatología, meteorología y paisaje es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Historia, Geografía e Historia del Arte de la Facultad de Humanidades en la Universidad de Almería, con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la climatología, meteorología y paisaje.