Human geography

Kriging can be used to determine optimal unbiased predictions for regionalized variables and has been shown to be a powerful tool in slope reliability analysis for reliability-based design.

Ce dossier appréhende des espaces de bain souvent dissociés, ceux liés à la propreté et à l’hygiène et ceux liés aux loisirs, au bien-être ou aux rituels religieux.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

The book presents a reinterpretation of the meaning and practices of uncommoning.

Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.

This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of 'green criminality' against the natural environment.

In many fields of professional practice and research, conversations can no longer be conducted in the first language of the respective participants.

Satellite imagery and data are widely used in public health surveillance to provide early warning of disease outbreaks and for averting pandemics.

The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South.

Written by an expert in the development of GPS systems with digital maps and navigation, Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with Java: The RealObject Application Framework provides a concrete paradigm for object-oriented modeling and programming.

This book provides an integrated view of each of the four provinces of Pakistan, considered the four micro regions, owing to their relative internal homogeneity and distinctiveness from the adjacent regions.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens.

How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road.

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience.

This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity.

In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River's hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people.

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies.

New urban applications are emerging for remote sensing, in particular with the use of high-resolution data for measuring, monitoring and analysis.

This book draws together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the legal, moral, and socio-spatial regulation of sex work in the contemporary context.

This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales.

This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and civic engagement.

In many fields of professional practice and research, conversations can no longer be conducted in the first language of the respective participants.

Recent studies of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have attempted to highlight the theoretical significance of CVAs for understandings of community (re)making.

This book includes evidence-based accounts of inequities in the arts as well as a focus on systems that perpetuate and resolve inequities in this context - a topic of wide interest to researchers and practitioners in arts and culture.

Although interest in spatial regression models has surged in recent years, a comprehensive, up-to-date text on these approaches does not exist.

Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world.

Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before.

Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy.

This second edition focuses on Tropical Dry Forests (TDF) in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in the last decade, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics.

The identity of Taiwan is a matter of intense local and international debate.

A major trend in recent years in political and economic geography has been the increasingly sophisticated use of the concept of scale.

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

The Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology is an essential resource covering all aspects of forest ecology from a global perspective.

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities.

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history.

The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps.

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: A System Simulation Approach demonstrates the use of image simulation for SAR.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS).

This book is designed to provide a detailed, methodological framework for landslide hazard assessment.

Part of the Performing Landscapes series, Performing Homescapes is an edited collection comprising a contemporary exploration of performing many iterations of landscapes of homes.

Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before.

The impact of a changing environment on human society and, conversely, the impact of man's activities upon the environment are important and contentious subjects today.