Geography

In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors.

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development.

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia.

This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world.

This volume is devoted to the geographical-or spatial-aspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigations of the role of population in related fields such as climate change and economic growth.

This book focuses on the urban wind environment of urban center district.

Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia.

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels.

This book presents practical information about hemispherical photography from the perspectives of field data acquisition, image processing and information retrieval methods.

This book presents a comprehensive debate and analysis of existing Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodologies, designed under the auspices of the ESPON programme since the mid-2000s.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, in its 2017 and 2018 editions, which were held in Cadiz and Madrid, Spain.

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 explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the interlinkages between drought and water management.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of contemporary Asia's architectural theorisations and phenomena based on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character.

This book provides an overview of arid and semi-arid lands conditions, their general characteristics, methods of management, conservation, exploitation and reclamation.

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus.

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) - blooms that cause fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, or cause human or ecological health impacts and harm to local economies - are occurring more often, in more places and lasting longer than in past decades.

This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television.

This book presents the most relevant basaltic plateau exposures in the provinces of Neuquen (northern Patagonia) and Santa Cruz (southern Patagonia), and analyzes their geomorphological and morphometric characteristics.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the municipal incorporation activity in the United States over the last several decades and the geographic consequences of the incorporation of new cities.

As the risks of the climate crisis continue to grow, so too do the challenges of facing a harsh climate future with honesty and courage; justice and compassion; meaning and purpose.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region.

This edited volume sheds new light on the impact of rapid Land Use/Cover Changes (LU/CC) on greenhouse gases (GHG's) and aerosol emissions in South and Southeast Asia.

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration.

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

Songs from Sweden shows how Swedish songwriters and producers are the creative forces behind much of today's international pop music.

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

This book provides an overview of the ecological indicators of landscape dynamics in the context of geographical landscape integration.

The book studies the "e;Manchurian immigrants"e; from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women's issues.

This book presents the selected peer-reviewed papers from the national conference Futuristic Approaches in Civil Engineering (FACE) 2019.

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages.

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.

This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent factors in migration.

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

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

This book situates Taiwan's indigenous knowledge in comparative contexts across other indigenous knowledge formations.