Robert W Peckham

Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment

Francois Villon: A Bibliography

Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

This publication is the first book on the development and application of digital terrain modeling for regional planning and policy support. It is a compilation of research results by international research groups at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, providing scientific support to the...

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, while politicians denounce terrorism as a lethal pathological threat. Recent years have even witnessed the development of a new subfield, "epidemiological criminology," which merges pu...

Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia

Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous "on t...

Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings--from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial...

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