Geography

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

Children's and young people's geographies is one of the most recent sub-disciplines within human geography.

This book highlights the new urban-rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China.

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience.

This book provides new roads, perspectives, and a synthesis for tourism and regional science research.

This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese residents in Japan.

This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses.

This book explores contemporary tourism and coastal developments in Hyogo, Japan-the nation's only non-peninsular prefecture bordering two oceans.

This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town's intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta.

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time?

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.

This book discusses the subject of turbulence encountered in coastal and civil engineering.

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.