Geography

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan.

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks.

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies.

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

This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based.

This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity.

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.

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives.

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human's benefit.

Headland-bay beaches (HBBs) are ubiquitous in coastal environment.

This timely book is about how to design alternatives to reduce coastal flood and wave damage, erosion, and loss of ecosystems facing an unknown future of sea level rise.

This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

This book examines the social and political dimensions of migration from a perspective between the realms of demography and politics.

This book introduces readers to the application of fracture mechanics and mesomechanics to the analysis of the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo.

For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas.

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

This book presents water insecurity issues in urban areas while developing a water security index and explores the innovative approaches to water development and management with examples from Asian cities.

This book highlights computationally enabled and digitally fabricated strategies used in the design of a series of full-size wooden structures.

On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth's historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life's generation and evolution, i.

This book provides a collection of critical pieces that support the idea that good teaching and learning of geography in fieldwork and using technology should consider the dimensions of curriculum design, instructional design and resource provision, as well as assessment for such learning activities.

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions.

This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies.

This book brings forward the concept of the geology-environmental capacity of ground buildings.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25-28, 2017.

This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront.

This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements.

Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city.

This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories and methodologies in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) target scattering mechanism modeling and interpretation, which is dedicated to bridge the gap between the acquired data and practical applications.

This book chiefly addresses the analysis and design of geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) systems, focusing on the algorithms, analysis, methods used to compensate for ionospheric influences, and validation experiments for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities.

The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the ';urban age' inaugurated in the twentieth century.

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 is the first academic book about the dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs of Korea, one of the richest and most exciting regions on earth for the study of vertebrate ichnology.

This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional economic development.

This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries.

This book presents an intensive study on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury in a river-reservoir system in Wujiang River Basin, the upper branch of the Yangtze River.

This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book addresses space science and communication - one of the main pillars of space science sustainability, an area that has recently become of great importance.

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality.

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration.

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism.

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems.

This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process.

This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods.

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality.