Geography

This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas.

This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future.

The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the lessons learnt and listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation for saving human lives.

This book highlights the main features of the economic, commercial, political, fiscal and financial systems of each of the ASEAN countries from a domestic and an international point of view.

Since the last decades of the twentieth century, the circumstances surrounding map use and map making have drastically changed owing to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.

This comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of quality of life issues covering a wide geographical region: North America, Europe, parts of Africa, East Asia, and South Asia.

Richard Lowenstein's 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational.

 This book introduces Document As System (DAS), a new GeoComputation pattern, which is also a new GIS application pattern.

The discourse on migration outcomes in the West has largely been dominated by issues of integration, but it is more relevant to view immigration in non-Western societies in relation to practices of exclusion and inclusion.

This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

This book traces how naturalism-the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems-has contributed to major shifts in urban planning.

This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore.

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of principles to accurately understand and analyze features on or near the earth's surface.

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia.

In this book, leading architects and landscape architects provide their perspectives on the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts that can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.

This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

This book explores the core value of Gulangyu's historical environment, using outstanding universal value and Sino-foreign cultural exchange as the framing aspects, based on the requirements for Gulangyu being recognized as a World Heritage Site.

This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse.

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes.

This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities.

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities.

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens.

This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia.

Understanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism.

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles.

Advances in Coastal Hydraulics contains twelve papers that report on recent developments in several areas of coastal hydraulics.

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place.

This book highlights the importance of outdoor thermal comfort for improving urban living quality in the context of urban planning and urban geometry design.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

Modern design of berm breakwaters began about thirty years ago.

This book is a collection of research articles that deal with three aspects of simulation and gaming for social design: (1) Theory and methodology, including game system theory and agent-based modeling; (2) Sustainability, including global warming and the energy-food nexus);; and (3) Social entrepreneurship, including business, ethnic, and ethical understanding.

As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities', this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places.

This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Explore the intricacies of UAV technology, components, autonomous systems, and applications in various industries.