Geography

This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China's spatial economic development and its implications for Tibet.

Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and resilient, but productive, sustainable and viable urban environments.

The book selects Guangzhou, which has the highest crime rate in China, as a research site to study patterns of crime and social disorganization.

The book addresses conceptual issues around urban transportation policy and practice in selected west African cities.

This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia.

This edited volume focuses on how multiculturalism, as statecraft, has had both intended and unintended consequences on Singapore's various ethnic communities.

This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia's urban populations from a governance perspective.

This book highlights the electronic governance in a smart city through case studies of cities located in many countries.

This volume demonstrates the multiple ways that space, place and environment interact with children and young people's lives.

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

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

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

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

This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work.

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.

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

This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities.

This volume presents the innovative methodologies, tools and techniques, as well as the challenges and ethical complexities of doing geographies of young people.

This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning.

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

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian 'high-tech' workers living in the United States.

This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China.

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 highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

This book presents a comprehensive framework and indicators that can be used to assess a city's degree of resilience.

Management geography explores the spatial characteristics of management-related issues, especially of firms.

This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements.

This book introduces the issues of the contemporary state of Bihar, India, in terms of its performance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators and the initiatives taken by the central and state governments towards realizing human development.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study.

This volume explores the discourse of disaster and women in the existing social settings and state disaster-related affairs in coastal Bangladesh.

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

This book provides an institutional interpretation of state-facilitated gentrification in Chengdu, an emerging central city of China.

This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead.

This book presents a complete set of studies of alluvial fan sediments in southern Iran from the point of view of sedimentology, sedimentary geochemistry, tectonics, economic geology, groundwater, geomorphology, hazards and telemetry.

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale.

This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching positive peace.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

This book investigates the historical evolution, regional differences, and quantitative measurement on street interface, which forms the street space and plays a very important role in urban form.

This Edited book introduces the concept of complex disasters and considers both disaster risks and impacts across the disaster management spectrum - Prevention - Preparation - Response and Recovery.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and meta cities as well as at sub-city zonal and community and neighborhood level.

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

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.

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

This book provides a snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic situation from the perspective of the tourism, aviation and hospitality industries.

This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SIMHYDRO 2021 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis in June 2021 with the support of French Hydrotechnic Society (SHF).

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).

This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings.

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.