Human geography

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards.

This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants.

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.

This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate.

This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

This book explores the role of railways in developing sustainable low-carbon mobility by analyzing the intermodal relationship between railways and other transport modes.

This book tells the story of the Mount Songshan area architecture in simple terms, while also providing detailed information on the history of Buddhist architecture.

This book provides perspectives on depopulated areas and regional social capital from positivistic field surveys.

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne.

This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments.

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

This book explores contemporary tourism and coastal developments in Hyogo, Japan-the nation's only non-peninsular prefecture bordering two oceans.

This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial).

This book provides empirically driven discussions and investigations in the relevance of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and its theoretical concepts.

Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs.

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance.

This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities.

Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it).

This book comprises selected proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Developments (ICRACEID 2019).

Migration Crises in 21st Century Africa explores the ever-expanding crises of migrations from various regions of Africa to other parts of the world; notably the pattern that utilizes the pre-existing trans-Saharan trade route via North Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe's southern fringes.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment.

This book examines the manufacturing, supply chain and product-level sustainability of leather and footwear products.

This book studies Australia, a country characterized by the highest concentration of domestic photovoltaic systems.

Fractured Scenes is the first extensive academic account of music and sound art practices that fall outside of the scope of 'mainstream music' in Hong Kong.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

This is a book about how cities occupy space.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

This book highlights the main features of the economic, commercial, political, fiscal and financial systems of each of the ASEAN countries from a domestic and an international point of view.

This book highlights the concept of informed architecture as an alternative to performance-based approaches.

Understanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism.

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries.

The richness of Africa's heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced.

This book examines industrial upgrading in China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography.

This book presents papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture 2019, which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 24-26 October 2019.

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity.

This book presents a case study-based analysis of the consequences of external interventions, critically evaluating them from community perspectives.

Intended as a comprehensive guide to the study of land use and rural development, this book offers detailed descriptions of land use transitions and rural restructuring.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This book analyzes a broad variety of tourism products in China, Asia and Europe that employ both cutting-edge IT technologies and advanced methodologies.

This book describes the health status of internal migrants in China and explores a number of related factors, which include their physical health, mental health, fertility, social integration, the current state of basic public health services in China and so on.

The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking.

This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring 'urban resilience measures' and 'city management issues' during disruptive disease outbreak events.

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions.