This book examines piracy not just as a historical and contemporary criminal activity but as a complex phenomenon deeply interwoven with legal constructs and cultural perceptions.
This book brings together past and present empirical materials to examine the connections between past politics of land and conservation and contemporary land and natural resource conservation struggles in the Mapungubwe region, contending that addressing South Africa’s vexed present requires fuller reckoning with its past.
This book investigates the ways in which human reconnection with the ocean and coast is a desire and bid for a reconnection with human sensory experience on Earth.
This book investigates the ways in which human reconnection with the ocean and coast is a desire and bid for a reconnection with human sensory experience on Earth.
Covering a wide range of topics and citing examples from the developed and developing countries the present set shall be of great use and immense utility for those who are interested in the study of man and environment relationship and those who are concerning increasingly with the problems of environmental pollution, sustainable development and future of man his use and misuse of the biotic and abiotic resources.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
In a world where water scarcity is increasingly dominating management decisions, this book offers a comprehensive examination of decision support models in transboundary water management, and a groundbreaking approach to resolving international water conflicts.
In a world where water scarcity is increasingly dominating management decisions, this book offers a comprehensive examination of decision support models in transboundary water management, and a groundbreaking approach to resolving international water conflicts.
This book examines how Ukraine's agricultural system can move from resource-intensive production toward more sustainable, resilient, and agroecological pathways.
This book examines the nexus between livelihood capital and resilience across Africa, offering a regional perspective on how people cope with climate change, conflict, and economic uncertainty.
This book explains how Food Policy Councils solve critical food systems problems by creating just and resilient ways of producing, harvesting, manufacturing, distributing, and consuming food and managing food waste, using methods that encourage civic engagement and strengthen democratic processes.
This book examines how Ukraine's agricultural system can move from resource-intensive production toward more sustainable, resilient, and agroecological pathways.
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainability, examining the complex relationships among environmental, economic, and socio-cultural systems across a wide range of industries.
Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white lifestyle migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United Statesfrom alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeastin a process akin to urban gentrification.
This book examines the nexus between livelihood capital and resilience across Africa, offering a regional perspective on how people cope with climate change, conflict, and economic uncertainty.
Focusing on county-level urbanization in Sichuan Province, this book analyzes return migrants' residential choices across three dimensions: Willingness to Return Housing Purchase Behavior Residential Location Preferences Research Focus and Methodology First, based on human capital theory and cost-benefit analysis, the study examines how career opportunities, public service access, and migration costs influence the willingness to return.
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainability, examining the complex relationships among environmental, economic, and socio-cultural systems across a wide range of industries.
The Arab uprisings of the early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structures and better living conditions for millions in the region.
This is a book about the simultaneous location, production and distri- bution decisions of a firm entering a competitive market whose spatial nature is describable by a network in which the market either achieves an equilibrium or is equilibrium tending.
The smart city is not merely a set of digital infrastructures, but a complex ecosystem in which technological networks, human capital, and urban communities intertwine.
Covering a wide range of topics and citing examples from the developed and developing countries the present set shall be of great use and immense utility for those who are interested in the study of man and environment relationship and those who are concerning increasingly with the problems of environmental pollution, sustainable development and future of man his use and misuse of the biotic and abiotic resources.
Border regions in Central Europe undergo tremendous changes due to the enlargement of the European Union and the related processes of Europeanization, bordering and re-bordering.
This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: (1) Progress in Landslide Science, (2) Landslide Dynamics, (3) Landslide Monitoring, and (4) Landslide Risk Assessment.
Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues - From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other.
This book presents approaches to landscape modelling not only from geography but also from various related disciplines, especially from applied mathematics, computer science, and geophysics.
Geologists and civil engineers related to infrastructure planning, design and building describe professional practices and engineering geological methods in different European infrastructure projects.
The accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future.
Since the first symposium in 1984 the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) has become a major resource for recent advances in GIS research.
Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status report emphasizes the mechanisms of different types of landslides, landslide risk analysis, and sustainable disaster management.
Despite the common understanding of the importance of desert development in the contemporary world, there are relatively few books published to date on this sub- ject.
