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Engineering earth

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Megaengineering: The Concept and a Research Frontier
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    Chapter 2 Building the Next Seven Wonders: The Landscape Rhetoric of Large Engineering Projects
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    Chapter 3 Information Technology as Megaengineering: The Impact of GIS
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    Chapter 4 Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project
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    Chapter 5 Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the internet
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    Chapter 6 Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering
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    Chapter 7 Real-Time National Stability Engineering: Mapping the 2009 Afghan Election
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    Chapter 8 Engineering Time and Space with the Global Fiber Optics Industry
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    Chapter 9 The Internet in Three Finnish Cities: Accessing Global Networks
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    Chapter 10 ICTs and Activities on the Move? People’s Use of Time While Traveling by Public Transportation
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    Chapter 11 Assembling Video Game Worlds
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    Chapter 12 GPS Collars in Studies of Cattle Movement: Cases of Northeast Namibia and North Finland
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    Chapter 13 Engineering Cattle for Dairy Development in Rural India
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    Chapter 14 Social Responses to Crop Biotechnology: Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat, India
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    Chapter 15 Turning the Soviet Union into Iowa: The Virgin Lands Program in the Soviet Union
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    Chapter 16 The Megaengineering of Ocean Fisheries: A Century of Expansion and Rapidly Closing Frontiers
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    Chapter 17 Impacts of Up-Coming Deep-Sea Mining
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    Chapter 18 When Megaengineering Disturbs Ram: The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project
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    Chapter 19 Deep Drilling: Tunnel Spaces as Gender Spaces
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    Chapter 20 The Megaproject of Mining: A Feminist Critique
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    Chapter 21 The Richest Hole on Earth? Nature, Labor and the Politics of Metabolism at the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine
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    Chapter 22 When Boom Goes Bust: Ruins, Crisis and Security in Megaengineering Diamond Mining in Angola
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    Chapter 23 Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala and the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor
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    Chapter 24 Character and Scale of Environmental Disturbances Resulting from Mining in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly
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    Chapter 25 Engineering and Re-engineering Earth: Industrialized Harvesting of Ireland’s Peatlands and its Aftermath1
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    Chapter 26 Energy-Hungry Europe: Development Projects in South-Central Europe
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    Chapter 27 The Next Generation of Energy Landscapes
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    Chapter 28 The Repercussions of Being Addicted to Oil: Geospatial Modeling of Supply Shocks
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    Chapter 29 Global Motor Vehicle Assembly: Nationalism, Economics, and Rationale
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    Chapter 30 Potentials and Employment Impacts of Advanced Energy Production from Forest Residues in Sparsely Populated Areas
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    Chapter 31 Megaproject: A 4-Decade Perspective of the Gulf Development Model
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    Chapter 32 “America’s New Design for Living:” The Interstate Highway System and the Spatial Transformation of the U.S.
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    Chapter 33 The Transamazon Highway: Past, Present, Future
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    Chapter 34 Megaprojects in India: Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector
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    Chapter 35 Shifting Sands: The Trans-Saharan Railway
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    Chapter 36 Will New Mobilities Beget New (Im)Mobilities? Prospects for Change Resulting from Mongolia’s Trans-State Highway
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    Chapter 37 “America’s Glory Road” … On Ice: Permafrost and the Development of the Alcan Highway, 1942–1943
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    Chapter 38 “We Shall Dress You in a Robe of Cement and Concrete:” How Discourse Concerning Megaengineering Projects Has Been Changing in Israel
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    Chapter 39 Built in a Field of Dreams? Spatial Engineering and Political Symbolism of South Africa’s Rapid Rail Link Development, Gautrain
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    Chapter 40 Manufacturing Consent for Engineering Earth: Social Dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig
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    Chapter 41 Impacts of The “Marmaray” Project (Bosphorus Tube Crossing, Tunnels and Stations) on Transportation and Urban Environment in Istanbul
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    Chapter 42 Scandinavian Links: Mega Bridges Linking the Scandinavian Peninsula to the European Continent
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    Chapter 43 The Qinghai–Tibetan Railroad: Innovative Construction on Warm Permafrost in a Low-Latitude, High-Elevation Region
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    Chapter 44 A Network Perspective on Mega-Engineering Projects
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    Chapter 45 Bechtel: The Global Corporation
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    Chapter 46 Chinese Construction Industry: Governance, Procurement and Culture
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    Chapter 47 An Overview of the Gulf Countries’ Construction Industry
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    Chapter 48 Exploring the Role of Governance in Sustainable Franchised Distribution Channels
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    Chapter 49 Intermodal Terminals, Mega Ports and Mega Logistics
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    Chapter 50 Mega-Airports: The Political, Economic, and Environmental Implications of the World’s Expanding Air Transportation Gateways
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    Chapter 51 University as Megaengineering Project
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    Chapter 52 Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth: Megachurches and the Reengineering of America’s Spiritual Soil
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    Chapter 53 Mega-Engineering Projects in Russia: Examples from Moscow and St. Petersburg
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    Chapter 54 Engineering New Geographies with the Burj Dubai*
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    Chapter 55 Floating Cities
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    Chapter 56 Planning and Implementing Capital Cities – Lessons from the Past and Prospects for Intelligent Development in the Future: The Case of Korea
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    Chapter 57 Astana, Kazakhstan: Megadream, Megacity, Megadestiny?
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    Chapter 58 Myanmar’s New Capital City of Naypyidaw
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    Chapter 59 Event Engineering: Urban Planning for Olympics and World’s Fairs
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    Chapter 60 Sustainable City Regions: Mega-Projects in Balance with the Earth’s Carrying Capacity
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    Chapter 61 Edge Cities in the Era of Megaprojects
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    Chapter 62 Engineering and the Architecture of Economic Recovery: TARP, the New Deal, and the Evolving Landscapes of Crisis
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    Chapter 63 Engineering Singapore as a City–State and Tourism Destination
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    Chapter 64 Val d’Europe: A Mega Urban Project Partnered by Walt Disney Company and the French State
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    Chapter 65 Dredging Paradise: The Making of San Diego’s Mission Bay Aquatic Park
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    Chapter 66 Earth as a Medium: The Art and Engineering of Golf Course Construction
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    Chapter 67 Engineering Metaphorical Landscapes and the Development of Zoos: The Toronto Case Study*
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    Chapter 68 An Uncomfortable Fit? Transfrontier Parks as MegaProjects
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    Chapter 69 Dams, Casinos and Concessions: Chinese Megaprojects in Laos and Cambodia
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    Chapter 70 Engineering Paradise: Marketing the Dominican Republic’s Last Frontier
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    Chapter 71 Perfecting and Recreating Nature on the Upper Mississippi River
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    Chapter 72 The Bluegrass of Kentucky: An Engineered Image of a Gracious Life
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    Chapter 73 Constructing Thoroughbred Breeding Landscapes: Manufactured Idylls in the Upper Hunter Region of Australia
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    Chapter 74 The Earth Restoration Project: An Overview
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    Chapter 75 Huge Yields of Green Belts? Mega and Micro Plantation Forestry Cases from Indonesia, Ghana and Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 76 Historic Land Use and Social Policy Affecting Large-Scale Changes in Forest Cover in the Midwest United States
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    Chapter 77 The Historical Decrease of Soil Erosion in the Eastern United States – The Role of Geography and Engineering
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    Chapter 78 Re-Making America: Soil Mechanics, Earth Moving, Highways, and Dams
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    Chapter 79 Engineering the Emirates: The Evolution of a New Environment
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    Chapter 80 Land Marks in the Cure of Madness: The Shaping of 19th Century Asylum Sites in Melbourne, Australia
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    Chapter 81 Sea Art: The Mediterranean Sea Terrace Proposal
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    Chapter 82 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Cutoff Plan
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    Chapter 83 The Impacts of Megahydraulic Engineering Projects from a Dutch Perspective
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    Chapter 84 Dutch Coastal Engineering Projects: Past Success and Future Challenges
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    Chapter 85 Moving the River? China’s South–North Water Transfer Project
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    Chapter 86 The Siberian Water Transfer Scheme
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    Chapter 87 Freshwater Supplies Necklace Super-Project: Floating Bags and Rolling Freshwater Tires Facilitating Future India–China–Bangladesh Life Necessities Trade
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    Chapter 88 Aral Sea Partial Refilling Macroproject
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    Chapter 89 Geo-Engineering South Australia: The Case of Lake Eyre
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    Chapter 90 Mega-Hydroelectric Power Generation on the Yangtze River: The Three Gorges Dam
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    Chapter 91 Demographic Impacts of the Three Gorges Dam
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    Chapter 92 Water Worth Gold: The Itaipú Hydroelectric Project1
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    Chapter 93 Megadams for Irrigation in Nigeria: Nature, Dimensions, and Geographies of Impacts
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    Chapter 94 Ebbs and Flows: Megaproject Politics on the Mekong
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    Chapter 95 Beyond Mega on a Mega Continent: Grand Inga on Central Africa’s Congo River
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    Chapter 96 America’s Military Footprint: Landscapes and Built Environments within the Continental U.S.
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    Chapter 97 Constructing the Border Wall – The Social and Environmental Impacts of Border: Mexico-U.S. Border Policy
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    Chapter 98 The Engineering of Detentional Landscapes: Australia’s Asylum Seeker Island Prisons
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    Chapter 99 “Alcatraz in the Sky”: Engineering Exile in a Virginia (USA) Prison
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    Chapter 100 An Environmental History of the French Nuclear Complex at La Hague
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    Chapter 101 Fifty Years of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakstan: Juxtaposed Worlds of Blasts and Silences, Security and Risks, Denials and Memory
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    Chapter 102 Florida’s Planned Retirement Communities: Marketing Age, Religion, Ethnicity and Lifestyle
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    Chapter 103 Re-engineering the Urban Landscape: Land Use Reconfiguration and the Morphological Transformation of Shrinking Industrial Cities
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    Chapter 104 Wiring the Countryside: Rural Electrification in Ireland
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    Chapter 105 When a New Deal is Actually an Old Deal: The Role of TVA in Engineering a Jim Crow Racialized Landscape
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    Chapter 106 A Double-Edged Sword: Social Control in Appalachian Company Towns
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    Chapter 107 Social Engineering: Creating and Now Undoing Apartheid’s Structures
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    Chapter 108 Engineering Socialism: A History of Village Relocations in Chukotka, Russia
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    Chapter 109 The State of Deseret: The Creation of the Mormon Landscape in the Western U.S.
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    Chapter 110 Subversive Engineering: Building Names in Singapore
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    Chapter 111 Empire, Names and Renaming: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh
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    Chapter 112 Reconstructing Post-Conflict Human Landscapes: The Land Administration Domain Model
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    Chapter 113 Zoning as a Form of Social Engineering
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    Chapter 114 Engineering Borders and Border Landscapes: The Schengen Regime and the EU’s New Internal and External Boundaries in Central-Eastern Europe
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    Chapter 115 Engineered Healing and the Northern Ireland Question: Collaboration Across an Increasingly Invisible Border
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    Chapter 116 Liquid Urbanity: Re-engineering the City in a Post-Terrestrial World
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    Chapter 117 Living on the Grid: The U.S. Rectangular Public Land Survey System and the Engineering of the American Landscape
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    Chapter 118 Traces of Power: Europe’s Impact on the Political Organization of the Globe
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    Chapter 119 Air and Space Demarcation
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    Chapter 120 A Perspective on Weather Modification: Planned and Inadvertent
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    Chapter 121 Climate Change, Climate Models and Geoengineering the Earth
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    Chapter 122 Olivine Hills: Mineral Water Against Climate Change
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    Chapter 123 Demise of the Geomagnetic Field: An Opportunity for Mega-Engineers to Save Humanity
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    Chapter 124 Terraforming Mars: A Review of Concepts
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    Chapter 125 Planetary Ecosynthesis on Mars and Geo-Engineering on Earth: Can We? Should We? Will We?
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    Chapter 126 Global Warming and the Specter of Geoengineering: Ecological Apocalypse, Modernist Hubris, and Scientific-Technological Salvation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Global Warming Trilogy
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Title
Engineering earth
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, March 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4
ISBNs
978-9-04-819920-4, 978-9-04-819919-8, 978-9-40-240475-3
Authors

Brunn, Stanley D

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Stanley D. Brunn

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 198 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 23%
Student > Master 41 20%
Researcher 19 9%
Student > Bachelor 19 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 7%
Other 33 16%
Unknown 30 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 44 22%
Engineering 23 11%
Environmental Science 22 11%
Arts and Humanities 13 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 6%
Other 54 26%
Unknown 35 17%