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With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students, academic researchers, planners, conservationists and policy makers, and with the use of informative urban-region color maps, Richard Forman analyzes 38 urban regions from 32 nations, including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Seoul, Bangkok, Canberra, and a major case study of the Greater Barcelona region. Alternative patterns of urbanization spread (including sprawl) are evaluated from the perspective of nature and people, stating land-use principles extracted from landscape ecology, transportation and hydrology. Good, bad and interesting spatial patterns for creating sustainable land mosaics are pinpointed, and urban regions are considered in broader contexts, from climate change to biodiversity loss, disasters and sense of place.

urban areas --- ecology --- Urban environment --- urban planning --- urban development --- Urbanization --- Infrastructure --- infrastructure --- Hydrology --- world --- Landscape protection. --- City planning --- City planning. --- Landscape ecology --- Landscape ecology. --- Landscape protection --- Regional planning --- Regional planning. --- Urban policy --- Urban policy. --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Ecologie. --- Perceptie en Beleving. --- Ecologie du paysage --- Paysages --- Urbanisme --- Aménagement du territoire --- Politique urbaine --- Case studies --- Case studies. --- Protection --- Cas, Etudes de --- infrastructure. --- Ecology --- Beautification of the landscape --- Conservation of landscapes --- Conservation of scenic beauty --- Conservation of scenic resources --- Landscape --- Natural beauty conservation --- Preservation of natural scenery --- Preservation of scenic resources --- Protection of landscapes --- Protection of scenic beauty --- Protection of scenic resources --- Scenery preservation --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Environmentally sensitive areas --- Landscape assessment --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban renewal --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Conservation --- Government policy --- Management --- Urbanization. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Rural-urban migration --- Aménagement du territoire --- Écologie --- Urbanisation

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Roads --- Automobiles --- Roadside ecology --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Ecology --- Environmental aspects --- Routes --- Écologie des bords de route. --- Roadside ecology. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Environmental aspects.

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"Traces the unique route through which Hmong in Vietnam discovered Christianity and appropriated it for themselves. Although a significant proportion of Vietnam's population has been Catholic since the days of French colonialism, the Hmong continued animistic spiritual practices shared across Hmong populations throughout Southeast Asia in the remote highland areas where most of them lived. After the Vietnam War, the Far East Broadcasting Company started an evangelical program in Hmong language targeting war refugees in Laos. In the mid-1980s this radio signal was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's Northern Highland, who related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation. Actual missionaries, mostly Laotian Hmong refugees in the US, eventually arrived to help them routinize their new Protestant faith. Today, this New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) is the claimed religion of roughly one third of a million Hmong in Vietnam. This ethngraphic study describes what happened when some Hmong decided to become Protestants while many of their kin kept their traditional religion, how the communist state views their religious activities, and the global dimensions of Hmong Protestant life. Hmong conversion serves as a lens for viewing the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates larger issues such as the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and post-socialist state-building, Cold War and post-Cold War antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and US-led evangelical expansionism"--

Ethnology --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Protestantism --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation --- Religion. --- Vietnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Biet Nam --- Bietnam --- Biyetnan --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Fiyitnām --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Petʻŭnam --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- S.R.V. --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- SRV --- SRVN --- Vʹet-Nam --- Vʹetnam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Vjetnamio --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- Wietnam --- Yüeh-nan --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Виетнам --- В'етнам --- فيتنام --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- Church history.

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Woody plants such as trees have a significant economic and climatic influence on global economies and ecologies. This completely revised classic book is an up-to-date synthesis of the intensive research devoted to woody plants published in the second edition, with additional important aspects from the authors' previous book, Growth Control in Woody Plants. Intended primarily as a reference for researchers, the interdisciplinary nature of the book makes it useful to a broad range of scientists and researchers from agroforesters, agronomists, and arborists to plant pathologists and soil s

Woody plants --- Trees --- Physiology --- Woody perennials --- Woody vegetation --- Plants --- Physiology. --- Woody plants - Physiology --- Trees - Physiology

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Locally compact semi-algebras

Banach algebras. --- Spectral theory (Mathematics) --- Linear operators. --- Positive operators. --- Operators, Positive --- Linear operators --- Linear maps --- Maps, Linear --- Operators, Linear --- Operator theory --- Functional analysis --- Hilbert space --- Measure theory --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Algebras, Banach --- Banach rings --- Metric rings --- Normed rings --- Banach spaces --- Topological algebras