Geography

The Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly poor people living along the coastal regions of South Asia lose their lives almost every year.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

Winner of the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2024.

This book examines industrial upgrading in China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography.

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance.

Groundwater Science, Third Edition covers physical and chemical aspects of groundwater science, with emphasis on applications in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, including contamination, mining, and construction issues.

This book introduces readers to the background, general framework, main operators, and other basic characteristics of biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is an emerging branch of bio-inspired computation.

Fractured Scenes is the first extensive academic account of music and sound art practices that fall outside of the scope of 'mainstream music' in Hong Kong.

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond.

The main focus of this monograph is urban acoustic environment of urban spatial morphology.

This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities.

This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures.

An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservationStanding in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans.

This textbook shows all the existing knowledge about coastal geology and its implications for coastal management.

This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia.

Global change involves complex and far-reaching variations in the Earth's systems, and satellite observations have been widely used in global change studies.

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.

Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture.

This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is facing as it undergoes a profound social transformation.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of spatial and environmental governance in contemporary Bali.

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

After providing a historical overview, this book highlights the current state of knowledge, gaps in our knowledge, recent findings and future prospects with regard to the biological, chemical, geological, and geographical specificities of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia.

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.

Der neueste Stand der Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Umweltinformatik (UI) und umweltbezogener IT-Anwendungsbereiche wird in diesem Tagungsband präsentiert und kritisch diskutiert.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies.

This book offers a broad and holistic overview of issues in the Arctic today, a region which is transforming due to changing world order and climate agenda.

This book is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of OpenStreetMap, the free map of the world.

This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of ?

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

This book is a comprehensive academic introduction of the natural conditions and cultural characteristics of the ChangJiang River Basin.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both.

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both.

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

Léopoldville-Kinshasa a connu un départ précipité, une croissance numérique forcée, jointe à un étalement latéral que ne contrarie aucune considération topographique.

Dans l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) qui regroupe huit États (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Togo), les gouvernements doivent répondre à plusieurs défis en matière de développement urbain : les disparités géographiques, humaines, économiques et d’urbanisation, le déséquilibre de l’armature urbaine et la dégradation des conditions de vie des populations urbaines.

Cette description de Kinshasa fait voir son évolution en réceptacle de diverses théories et pratiques concomittantes.

En Afrique tropicale la réduction du risque hydroclimatique peine à devenir une politique publique.

Quiconque a séjourné au Sahara/Sahel aura pu prendre la mesure de l'importance de l'eau dans la vie des populations du nord-ouest de l'Afrique, qu'elles évoluent en milieu urbain ou en milieu rural.

Cet ouvrage est la réflexion d'un talibé mouride, guide spirituel et ancien ministre de l'Aménagement du territoire et des Collectivités locales sur le statut de la ville de Touba (Sénégal).

La relation entre tourisme, patrimoine et territoire s’avère complexe.

« La prospective fait de grands pas depuis l’émergence de ce paradigme au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale.

This volume provides a framework for evaluating geospatial software for participatory mapping.

There is a need of strengthening the global and local response to cope with the threat of climate change and adverse effects of rising anthropogenic activities in the mountain ecosystem.