Geography

This book provides in-depth explanations of design theories and methods for remote sensing satellites, as well as their practical applications.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of "e;smart living"e; for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This book analyzes a broad variety of tourism products in China, Asia and Europe that employ both cutting-edge IT technologies and advanced methodologies.

This book describes the health status of internal migrants in China and explores a number of related factors, which include their physical health, mental health, fertility, social integration, the current state of basic public health services in China and so on.

This book presents the selected peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends and Innovations in Civil Engineering (ICRTICE 2019).

The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking.

This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring 'urban resilience measures' and 'city management issues' during disruptive disease outbreak events.

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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

This book situates Taiwan's indigenous knowledge in comparative contexts across other indigenous knowledge formations.

This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales down to the village level.

This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

This book analyzes decades of immigration-population growth and rapid urbanization as political-demography and urban-governance issues in French Guyana.

This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities.

This book addresses the mapping of soil-landscape parameters in the geospatial domain.

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.

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 presents the selected peer-reviewed papers from the national conference Futuristic Approaches in Civil Engineering (FACE) 2019.

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

This book examines heritage-led regeneration and decision-making processes in Tokyo's urban centres of Nihonbashi and Marunouchi.

This textbook introduces fundamental methods related to planning assessment and impact analysis, which aid planners in answering the following crucial questions: *         "e;Who are the people living here?

Placemaking Sandbox offers a valuable collection of placemaking case studies, designed for teachers and students to build expertise in shaping and creating thriving public places.

Songs from Sweden shows how Swedish songwriters and producers are the creative forces behind much of today's international pop music.

This book explores how fire, plants and people coexist in the Anthropocene.

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-a-vis migration.

This book investigates the influence of self-organisation processes on the commuting of the poor workers in urban China.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of citizenship and nationalism in connection with the Rohingya community.

The giant Asian monsoon has formed a diverse climate and natural environment.

This book provides an overview of the ecological indicators of landscape dynamics in the context of geographical landscape integration.

The book studies the "e;Manchurian immigrants"e; from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women's issues.

This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses.

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities.

In a significant departure from other works on Ritwik Ghatak, this book establishes him as an auteur and a maestro on par with some of the great film directors, like Sergei Eisenstein, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Kenji Mizoguchi and Luis Bunuel.

In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time.

This book presents selected articles from the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering Works and Structures, held in Ha Noi, focusing on the theme "e;Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure"e;, aiming to not only raise awareness of the vital importance of sustainability in infrastructure development but to also highlight the essential roles of innovation and technology in planning and building sustainable infrastructure.

This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local communities were excluded.

The invention of milking and milk use created a new mode of subsistence called pastoralism.

This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent factors in migration.

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China's manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective.

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 book discusses population growth and the resultant problems, and highlights the need for immediate action to develop a set of planned satellite towns around Indian megacities to reduce their population densities and activity concentrations.

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

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia.

This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present.

A major objective of this monograph is to identify the impact of thermal environment on urban center district.