Geography

This book explores how population mobility varies among the countries of Asia.

This book constitutes extended, revised and selected contributions from the Second International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.

This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area.

This book provides essential information on Mexico's Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history.

This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa.

This book explores the impact of population aging on energy use patterns in society from both a theoretical and an empirical angle, with a specific focus on Japan and Spain.

This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities.

This book discusses a number of recent technological and methodological progressions in achieving sustainable agriculture.

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape.

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment.

This book contributes to a deeper understanding of landscape and regional modelling in general, and its broad range of facets with respect to various landscape parameters.

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations.

This book discusses how Europe's Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies.

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales.

This SpringerBriefs presents a case study and theoretical analysis of an artistic enclave that emerged within Lawrenceville Pittsburgh.

This book evaluates off-grid solar electrification in Africa by examining how political, economic, institutional, and social forces shape the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, including how issues of energy injustice are manifested at different levels and spaces.

This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households.

This book presents the fundamentals of data assimilation and reviews the application of satellite remote sensing in hydrological data assimilation.

This collection is the first exploration into green crime in Mexico, offering a unique critique of the environmental problems facing Mexico today.

This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's Erasmus programme.

This book contains a selection of papers presented during a special workshop on Complexity Science organized as part of the 9th International Conference on GIScience 2016.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014.

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications.

This book investigates the dynamics and the role of green urban regeneration using nature-based solutions (NBS) in contributing to the cultural aspects of public spaces.

This book presents a social science perspective on drought and water scarcity in the UK.

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises.

This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

This book examines place and place-making in London's Borough Market.

This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on Location Based Services (LBS 2016), which was held in Vienna (Austria) from November 14 to 16, 2016.

This book explores in detail the challenges which the European gas markets currently face, and the opportunities they present.

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research agendas on green growth and sustainability.

The landscape is widely identified as a relevant target both by integrative policies and across the disciplines dealing with resource management and territorial planning.

This book comprehensively documents the various types of karst collapse and related conceptual site models, before discussing these collapses in terms of their impacts on engineering and the environment.

This book discusses the application of Geospatial data, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies in analysis and modeling of urban growth process, and its pattern, with special focus on sprawl and compact form of urban development.

This book presents a novel computation of the topographic LS factor of the USLE model to estimate spatial soil erosion.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

This textbook addresses the most recent advances and main digital technologies used in farming.

This third volume focusses on anthropogenic organic pollutants harming the environment.

This volume approaches the current crisis of solidarity in the European Union from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south.

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.