Geography

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 book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design.

This book concentrates on the changing patterns of work and global social order as a result of COVID-19.

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies.

This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

The book introduces a variety of latest techniques designed to represent, enhance, and empower multi-disciplinary approaches of geographic information system (GIS), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), machine learning, and cloud computing research in healthcare.

This book highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology via the adoption of combined micro-tunnelling and pipe-jacking techniques.

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

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

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer's perspective.

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.

This book evaluates African Special Economic Zones from the perspective of learning from China's experiences with such Zones and the impact of Chinese policy and investment on African Zones.

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

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

This book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities.

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

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 discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

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 examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South.

The world is currently experiencing changes in climate and environment that often lead to natural disasters.

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

This book offers a critical analysis of the diverse knowledge and knowledge production  processes  through  which 'alternative  agro-food networks'  can constitute a more plural 'knowledge economy'.

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.

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China.

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa.

As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond this failing social order.

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 festschrift honours Prof.

This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

This book provides a comprehensive introduction about recent state-of-the-art advancements in Open GIS, including Open GIS data, services, software, and libraries for GIS programming.

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 is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation.

This book highlights the challenges and opportunities of (re)constructing a sustainable rural community on the outskirts of the urban community.

This book acquaints the reader with the critical changes in India's economy and society amidst the unprecedented pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating by breaking all prior records of illness and fatality.

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

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

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.

Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena.

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 examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, and discusses the main issues and their solution alternatives for the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection efforts.

This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation.

This book identifies and provides reasoning for computed methods of local climate dynamics and the livelihood vulnerability indices assessment in the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, India.

This book provides extensive information on craftsmen-built houses in China.