Geography

This book provides essential background information on the protracted displacement of several ethnic groups along the Thai-Myanmar border before turning to an examination of whether Myanmar has now shifted into a post-conflict society, the expected challenges involved in reintegrating returnees to Myanmar, and the possibility of voluntary and sustainable repatriation.

This book explores the latest advances in our understanding of the evolution of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, examining the Damodar basin, Bhagirathi-Hooghly basin and Jalangi basin from historical, quantitative and applied geomorphology perspectives.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

This book explores the multi-dimensional and problematic relationship between ethics and development in the context of an array of methodological tools and conceptual categories such as social capital, civil society, good governance, involuntary displacement and human rights.

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country.

This book provides results of spatial and temporal distributions of water quality parameters and marine primary production and its relationship with the driving atmospheric, ocean circulation and hydrobiological mechanisms established through a synergistic use of multi-spectral region spaceborne data and results of numerical model simulations of marine in-water and atmospheric processes related to the marine ecosystem.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

This book fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of the refugee crisis by analyzing the dynamics that lie behind fifteen years of asylum policies in the European Union.

This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science.

Duecks anregende und provozierende Analyse des Menschen, seiner Wege und Ziele und der Bedingungen, unter denen er sein Leben lebt, hat große Resonanz ausgelöst.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This edited volume gathers the proceedings of the Symposium GIS Ostrava 2016, the Rise of Big Spatial Data, held at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, March 16-18, 2016.

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

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

This book explores new criteria and characteristics for integrating human psychology in the design of modern urban lighting.

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change.

This book aims to show the conditions and behaviors of vulnerable and marginalized people in Bangladesh which put them at risk of HIV/AIDS infection, and what their adopted coping strategies are and how these play out.

This book presents relevant and contemporary research on the remote sensing of landscapes, agriculture & forestry, geomorphology, coasts & oceans, natural hazards and wild habitats.

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building.

This book considers the scope and dynamics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learning in schools in Africa.

This book focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest.

In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research.

Dieses Buch zeigt die Chancen und Herausforderungen auf, die sich in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft durch Flüchtlinge ergeben.

This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles.

This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions.

This book describes the application of non-destructive geophysical methods in subsurface archaeological features.

This multi-sited island ethnography illustrates how the embattled politics of (im)mobility, belonging, and patronage among coastal fishing communities in Sri Lanka's militarised northeast have intersected in the wake of civil war.

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe.

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities.

This authored book assesses the spatial patterns of climate change and gender inequalities across the Global South, and analyzes the disproportionate impacts that climate change processes have on women in these regions.

This book provides a complete overview of novel and state of art sensing technologies and geotechnologies relevant to support management and conservation of CH sites, monuments and works of art.

This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.

Der Band befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Stadt und Infrastruktur, von Urbanisierung und Infrastrukturentwicklung.

This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991.

This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean.

This book discusses theoretical backgrounds, techniques and methodologies, and applications of the current state-of-the-art human dynamics research utilizing social media and geospatial big data.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods.

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live.

Das essential erforscht subjektive Diskriminierungserfahrungen von muslimischen Menschen in Deutschland und berücksichtigt dabei auch Menschen, welche sich selbst nicht dem Islam zugehörig fühlen, aber aufgrund einer vermeintlichen Zugehörigkeit zum Islam diskriminiert werden.

Der Band untersucht den Salafismus als Phänomen einer spezifischen Jugendkultur - die nicht nur auf Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund zielt und befasst sich mit ihrer Attraktivität sowie ihrer medialen und subkulturellen Mustern.

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration.

This book asks: What are the most suitable "e;mapping strategies"e; for detecting patterns of global dynamics?

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora.