Geography

The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economic development model.

This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges.

The book is dedicated to the Ionian Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change.

This volume presents full paper contributions from the International Conference of European Spatial Data for Coastal and Marine Remote Sensing (EUCOMARE) 2022, with the support of the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, held in Saint Malo, France.

This book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-aware technology have fundamentally changed the ways how social, political, economic and transportation systems work in today's globally connected world.

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.

This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

This book is a sociological account of the historical trajectory of feed-in tariffs (FITs) as an instrument for the promotion of renewable energy in Europe.

The book reflects on the current dimensions of tourism and patrimony in Brazil.

This book looks at marginality from a less conventional perspective by analyzing complex social, cultural, political and economic relations between the aspects of globalization and various forms of marginalization.

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media.

This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state.

This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens.

This book presents extensive and new information on the Cenozoic marine and continental systems of one of the most important World Heritage sites of Southern South America: The Peninsula Valdes.

This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science.

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia.

This book broadens the reader's knowledge base on lithofacies distribution, facies succession and association, and interpretation of paleo-depositional environments using outcrop-based and measured se dimentologic section data integrated with facies and petrographic analyses.

This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts.

This volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobility Analytics for Spatio-Temporal and Social Data, MATES 2017, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2017.

This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy.

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights.

This book is focused on wireless infrastructure deployment in modern transportation markets, where the wireless infrastructure co-exists with the existing structure.

This book summarizes the author's research resulted in developing the satellite radiothermovision approach which allows retrieving dynamical and energy characteristics of atmospheric mesoscale and synoptic-scale processes based on a close scheme of satellite passive radiometry data processing.

This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolome de los Olleros in Piura, Peru.

This book explores a sampling of the most powerful and enterprising efforts to achieve biotechnological goals by means of various interdisciplinary approaches.

This volume is a comprehensive guide to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the spatial analysis of supply and demand for energy in the global and local scale.

This book introduces the readers to possible aspects of the rainwater harvesting system against urbanization to plan, design, and implement.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book uniquely presents accurate and up-to-date information related to crops in small and fragmented agricultural lands with mixed cropping patterns.

The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil.

This book provides a thoughtful and rigorous guide to coverage modeling, reviewing essential models, solution approaches, and related applications.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime.

This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the landscape-ecological planning system LANDEP, and introduces the methodical procedure.

This book serves as a solid ground for seeking strategies to build the compact city that situated in a specific local area, based on the systematic examination of the effects of spatial planning system on urbanization control.

This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts.

This book discusses a variety of different  perspectives involved in biodiversity management and bio-sequestration projects in Australia, working towards achieving adaptive governance in carbon farming.

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit.

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.

This book examines the approaches to climate change adaptation in water governance taken by South Korea and Germany.

This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments.

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day.

This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies.

This book addresses a timely, yet largely overlooked, issue in political science: the integration of migrants in a multilevel polity.

Emerging Spatial Big Data (SBD) has transformative potential in solving many grand societal challenges such as water resource management, food security, disaster response, and transportation.