Physical geography and topography

This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability.

This book explores state-of-art techniques based on open-source software and statistical programming and modelling in modern geospatial applications, specifically focusing on recent trends in data mining techniques and robust modelling in Geomorphological, Hydrological, Bio-physical and Social activities.

This book is a comprehensive resource for climate change impacts and scenarios on cross-cutting issues in Bangladesh and other tropical low-lying countries in Asia.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy.

This book provides insights into the benefits of using remote sensing data from a geoscientist's perspective, by integrating the data with the understanding of Earth's surface and subsurface.

This book defines and discusses the term "e;hidden geographies"e; in two ways: systematically and by presenting a variety of examples of the research fields and topics concerning hidden geographies, with the aim of stimulating further basic and applied research in this area.

This book provides an appealing and informative overview of the outstanding landforms and landscapes of Scotland.

This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future climate development in Poland.

This book provides an original review of Ocean Literacy as a component of public policy in Europe and beyond.

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned.

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity.

This book addresses the various challenges in achieving sustainable groundwater development, management, and planning in semi-arid regions, with a focus on India, and discusses advanced remote sensing and GIS techniques for the estimation and management of groundwater resources.

This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade.

This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C.

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine.

This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact.

The book informs about agricultural landscapes, their features, functions and regulatory mechanisms.

In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this - one mind at a time.

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population.

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system.

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected changes in rainfall erosivity and erosivity density are the greatest, and discusses the potential impacts on the environment across the region.

This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts.

This book discusses how future landscapes will be shaped by pervasive change and where, when, and how society should manage landscapes for change.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia.

This book focuses on the present and future challenges of managing ecosystem transformation on a planet where human impacts are pervasive.

In this unique edited collection, social scientists reflect upon and openly share insights gathered from researching people and the sea.

This book addresses the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience in place based contexts.

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.

This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities.

This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This textbook explores the growing area of human-environment interaction.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of some of the most critical issues regarding the EU's Energy Union policy.

This book examines the "e;oil-tourism interface"e;, the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism.

This book discusses the karst and pseudokarst of the Upper Midwest, USA, consisting of the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois-the first regional synthesis in 40 years.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development.

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India.