Geography

This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments.

This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions.

A tidal bore is a series of waves propagating upstream as the tidal flow turns to rising.

This is the first book on global teachers and the increasingly important phenomenon of 'brain circulation' in the global teaching profession.

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 uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought, and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema.

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

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

This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center.

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.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

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

This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society.

This book weaves a social, economic and cultural history of Australia with rare first-hand accounts of the lived experience of change related to farming and agriculture.

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

This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures and properties for different industrial applications to support the ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable commercial products.

This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities.

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 explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River and China's sustainable development.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

Japan's fisheries sector is undergoing a major restructuring.

Major changes are taking place in the Chinese countryside as China rushes to modernizes and urbanizes its rural fabric.

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

This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions.

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

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 considers the role of civilian workers on U.

This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms.

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

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

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

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

This book draws together analysis of  class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships.

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

It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems.

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.

While the possible depletion of energy sources has been emphasized in most literatures, this book aims to show that the increase of entropy in the biosphere, resulting since the dawn of industrial era, is a cause for urgent concern.

This is the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts.

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

The handbook contains a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances in ocean waves, coastal, and ocean engineering.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu's development into a global city.