Geography

This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age.

This book is for all those actively working in the built environment.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial).

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies.

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as 'bringing home' to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation's greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia.

Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it).

This volume approaches China's Belt and Road Initiative as a process of culturalization, one that started with the Silk Road and continued over the millennium.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed papers presented at the 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (7IYGEC 2019) held at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar.

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer's perspective.

The world is currently experiencing changes in climate and environment that often lead to natural disasters.

The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the physical processes which, according to the present state of knowledge, determine the evolution of coastal systems and their response to human interventions.

This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health.

The Social Life of Sounds argues for the agency of sounds and music and the acceleration of their social lives in the Digital Age.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Farming - Energy & Environment - Water (ITsFEW 2018).

This book explores the complex category of the 'skilled migrant,' drawing on multi-sited narrative interviews with migrants who have all lived in Australia at some point in their lives (as an origin and/or destination).

This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues.

This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design.

In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Junger.

This book discusses the sequential development of population research in India, focusing on contemporary issues like demography, population studies, geography, sociology, urban studies and many more.

This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice.

This book presents comprehensive research and analyses on road traffic safety in China, discussing individual, vehicle, road and environmental factors to improve road safety in the country.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This book explores dominance in Australia's medical culture through the positioning of international medical graduates (IMGs).

This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China.

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China.

How do second-generation migrant women connect with their cultural heritage when ethnic ties have been weak or absent for most of their lives?

This book highlights the sustainable aspects of fashion and textiles in Latin America and discusses how the manufacturing and consumption of textile products and fashion are significant sources of environmental damage.

This book presents a landscape pattern language framework for describing landscape spaces and offers a new approach to landscape expression and spatial reasoning.

This book presents the series of lectures on the "e;Belt and Road Initiatives"e; from the Guang Ming Forum organized by Guang Ming Daily.

This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues.

This book documents the practice-led research of painting as a peripatetic art practice through travel and transient life in Australia, India, and Pakistan.

This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe and Africa.

This book introduces readers to the algorithm of Compass & GPS dual-system software receivers, and to the software implementation.

This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia.

This book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research.

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales.

Globally, concerns for the environment and human well-being have increased as results of threats imposed by climate change and disasters, environmental degradation, pollution of natural resources, water scarcity and proliferation of slums.

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India.

In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time.

This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China's economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration.

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

Set against a backdrop of concerns about the potential break-up or radical change to the global world order, this volume sets out to investigate the use of sports mega-events by a number of emerging states.

This book presents a survey, dynamic monitoring and comprehensive analysis of Sri Lanka's land, vegetation, surface water, ocean and other environmental resources, as well as its economic, transportation, urban, agricultural and tourism development.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.