Geography

This book discusses the effects of Neo-Liberal policies on the transformations of architectural and urban practices and education in the transition from the era of "e;professionalism"e; to "e;post-professionalism.

This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020.

This book explores how around the world, women's increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities.

This book describes the geography of Uzbekistan and its unique history and culture.

The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km.

This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 2017 International Cartographic Conference held in Washington, DC at the beginning of July and made available at the conference.

This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models.

This book discusses how to collect data and analyze databases in order to map risk zones, and contributes to developing a conceptual framework for coastal risk assessment.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book provides an information fusion model with information fusion theory, geographic information system technology and modern mathematical methods to evaluate the risks of groundwater inrushes from aquifers underlying coal seams.

Python is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, such as in processing images for remote sensing, in generating and processing digital elevation models, and in analyzing time series.

This book is a review of research on the prehistoric and historic evolution of the Basin of Mexico's lacustrine systems.

This Palgrave Pivot  examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones.

This book presents what is the state-of-the-art in the field of the food waste phenomenon at consumer level, including a thorough literature review, and it highlights trends in the field.

This volume discusses the increasing occurrence of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa over the last few years.

This book is an exploration of the relationship between irregular migrants, many originating from southern Philippines and the sea, in their struggle against the realities of state power in Sabah.

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

This book provides comparative, multi-disciplinary research on the surplus food distribution in Europe and its relation to food poverty, with a focus on the interaction of for-profit and non-profit organisations.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book discusses methods for measuring the water surface backscattering signature and estimating the near-surface wind vector over water using airborne radars, in addition to their standard application.

This book seeks to re-envision the purpose and pedagogy of sexuality education, disrupting its conventional instrumental and health related aims.

This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development.

This book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and governance in the urban sectors (e.

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade.

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.

This handbook provides an exhaustive, one-stop reference and a state-of-the-art description of geographic information and its use.

This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world.

This book describes how powerful computing technology, emerging big and open data sources, and theoretical perspectives on spatial synthesis have revolutionized the way in which we investigate social sciences and humanities.

The study is aimed at reconstructing the historical process at the base of any significant theatre architecture.

This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research.

This book presents the latest advances in the field of karst hydrogeology and carbonate reservoirs.

This book departs from typical cartography textbooks, which tend to focus on the characteristics of the methods and means of expression.

This book takes a critical look at the role of language in an increasingly diversified and globalised world, using the new framework of 'sociolinguistics of globalisation' to draw together research from human geography, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication.

This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution.

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This book promotes the exploitation of novel and emerging approaches for mapping environmental and urban informatics empowered by citizens.

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period.

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives-cinematic, photographic, and literary-produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants.