Geography

This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires.

This unique book focuses on remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS) in Iraq.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

This book is the latest and most comprehensive reference to the regional geography of Spain, taking into account emergent issues such as biodiversity, climate change and nationalism.

This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them.

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back.

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science.

This book discusses various statistical models and their implications for developing landslide susceptibility and risk zonation maps.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

This book provides a framework for understanding the components of woodland wellbeing.

This book presents the operational use of remote sensing in municipalities for urban planning purposes.

These proceedings contain 23 papers, which are the peer-reviewed versions of presentations made at the Joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).

This book interrogates the persistence of Roma and migrant segregation in camps in order to understand how the creation of temporary enclosures can lead to enduring marginalisation.

This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower Satakunta, Finland; this region is known for its rich cultural history.

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India.

This book explores a platform for insightful discussions and scientific discourse on various aspects of landslides and their risk management, with insights focused on the Himalayan states at a sub-regional level.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

In the agriculture, forestry, the primary and secondary wood working industry there are considerable resources of raw materials which can only be used in a rational manner for energetic purposes.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

This book focuses on 21st century geospatial technologies (GT).

Meeting the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires contributions by scientists focusing on understanding, monitoring, protecting, managing and restoring the natural environment, including geoscientists.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of several urban related aspects that are of central importance to successful territorial cohesion processes.

This book is one of the main outcomes of the projects "e;Development Programmes and Rural Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share"e;and "e;Successes and failures in the practice of neoendogenous rural development in the European Union (1991-2013)"e;, funded both of them by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

This book provides an overview of innovative and new directions being chartered in South African tourism geographies.

This book discusses water resources management in Romania from a hydrological perspective, presenting the latest research developments and state-of-the-art knowledge that can be applied to efficiently solve a variety of problems in integrated water resources management.

This book presents selected papers from the EuroKarst 2018 conference, which highlighted the latest advances in the field of Karst Hydrogeology and Carbonate Reservoirs.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts.

This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health.

This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal.

This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

This edited collection includes (but is not limited to) contributions in the form of chapters from the participants of the Workshop on the Macroeconomics of Migration at the University of Sheffield in June 2018.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland.

We are living at the dawn of what has been termed 'the fourth paradigm of science,' a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices.

This book offers an extensive study of indigenous communities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and their methods of forest conservation, along with an exploration of the impact of forestry operations in the islands and the wide scale damage they have incurred on both the land and the people.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

This book focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book compiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada.

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the soils of Sri Lanka.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

This book explores various digital representation strategies that could change the future of wooden architectures by blending tradition and innovation.

This book examines the geography of partisan polarization, or the Reds and Blues, of the political landscape in the United States.

Since prehistoric times and throughout the course of human evolution, wood has been an integral part of all civilizations.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.