Product Description: A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living. Sustainable governance of land and water is one of the major challenges of our times...read more

Product Description: Extreme floods cause enormous damage in floodplains, which levees cannot prevent. Therefore, it is vital for spatial planning to provide space for water retention in these areas. Land use planners, water management agencies, landowners, and policymakers all agree on this challenge, but attempts to make the space for rivers to provide retention are generally not very successful...read more

Product Description: (Schott). Gurdjieff, born in Kaukasus at the boundary between Armenia and Turkey, developed a philosophical apprenticeship that melds the esoteric knowledge of the East and the scientific thinking of the West. As he traveled many years through Asia and the East, he gathered and recorded melody and ritual dances...read more

Product Description: Landschaftsformen und Landschaftselemente im Hochgebirge ist ein allgemein verständliches, reich bebildertes Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk zugleich. Es erläutert den Formenschatz und die Elemente dieses Naturraumes (z. B. Talformen, Kare, Moränen, Erdpyramiden, Gletscherspalten) anschaulich in Bild und Text und verdeutlicht die Entwicklung von Landschaftsformen (z...read more