Geography

This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media.

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals.

The modern concepts and conceptual changes about Biogeography are vividly examined in the book and it is expected that the present book shall be of great help for the students of biogeography, environmentalists and decision makers alike, and shall motivate them to develop strategies for the protection and conservation of plants and animals on which depends the very survival of mankind.

Indian Geography is a vast discipline and India is a large country.

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration.

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

The geography of mans struggle to make a living or Economic Geography is one of the most important sub-disciplines of Geography.

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism.

This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.

This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities.

This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world's coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as "e;Natural World Heritage Sites"e;.

This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform the dominant role of citizens and technology in smart cities.

This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.

A great variety of topics covering the economic aspects of human societies have been discussed, it is hoped that the work shall be of immense help to the planners, policy makers, regional planners, students, teachers, and experts of environmental protection and management.

The earth's cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth's fresh water.

Geography of the world has always been of paramount importance.

World renowned Himalayas is not only a great mountain range having the privlege of Highest peaks in the world.

The present book ';Social Geography' consists of sixteen leading articles, covering the areas from topical to regional and from theoretical to empirical studies.

The past few decades have witnessed the growth of the Earth Sciences in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the planet that we live on.

This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production.

This book presents papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture 2019, which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 24-26 October 2019.

The majority of the world's population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds.

Basically, the study of the geographical distribution of economic resources and their use is known as Economic Geography.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities.

This book tells you where beach sand comes from, how waves are formed and how they break and move sand down the coast, how "e;works of man"e; have blocked this movement and caused beach erosion, and what can be done to save the beaches for future generations of Americans.

This book deals with the out-migration from the UNESCO designated Sundarban Biosphere Reserve in India.

Physical geography is one of the two major subfields of geography.

This book explores how fire, plants and people coexist in the Anthropocene.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

The second volume of this book is a compilation of the high-quality papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (ETWREE 2017).

This book comprises select proceedings of the First International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering.

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.

This book concentrates on the changing patterns of work and global social order as a result of COVID-19.

Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time.

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, geomorphology, hazards and telemetry.

Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes.

This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits.

This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media.

This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present.

Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena.

This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline.

This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale.

Wildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design.

This book examines heritage-led regeneration and decision-making processes in Tokyo's urban centres of Nihonbashi and Marunouchi.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach.

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives.