Human geography

This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development.

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture' in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia.

The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field.

This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process.

Geography of the world has always been of paramount importance.

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements.

This handbook presents a broad and comprehensive overview of research and practices in geography education at primary and secondary levels (from birth to about age 18).

This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space.

For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas.

This book brings forward the concept of the geology-environmental capacity of ground buildings.

This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media.

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration.

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

The geography of mans struggle to make a living or Economic Geography is one of the most important sub-disciplines of Geography.

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism.

This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities.

This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform the dominant role of citizens and technology in smart cities.

A great variety of topics covering the economic aspects of human societies have been discussed, it is hoped that the work shall be of immense help to the planners, policy makers, regional planners, students, teachers, and experts of environmental protection and management.

The present book ';Social Geography' consists of sixteen leading articles, covering the areas from topical to regional and from theoretical to empirical studies.

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.

The majority of the world's population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds.

Basically, the study of the geographical distribution of economic resources and their use is known as Economic Geography.

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities.

This book deals with the out-migration from the UNESCO designated Sundarban Biosphere Reserve in India.

Physical geography is one of the two major subfields of geography.

This book explores how fire, plants and people coexist in the Anthropocene.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.

This book concentrates on the changing patterns of work and global social order as a result of COVID-19.

Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time.

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes.

This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits.

This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media.

This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present.

Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena.

This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline.

This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale.

Wildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design.

This book examines heritage-led regeneration and decision-making processes in Tokyo's urban centres of Nihonbashi and Marunouchi.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach.

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives.

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

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities.

This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD).

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.