Geography

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 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.

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.

Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' over time, and the rules governing the conversation.

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 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.