Geography

Plantation forests are grown to supply wood and to provide environmental benefits, such as waste disposal, rehabilitation of degraded sites, enhancement of regional biodiversity and reduction of logging in native forests.

Flood Risk Change: A Complexity Perspective focuses on the dynamic nature of flood risks and follows a systemic approach - including environmental, socioeconomic and socio-technical factors for modeling and managing flood risk change.

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "e;green urbanism,"e; both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked.

This book examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, analyzing the deep-seated inequalities pervasive in contemporary Brazil.

The Politics of Climate Change provides a critical analysis of the political, moral and legal response to climate change in the midst of significant socio-economic policy shifts.

Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe.

How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice.

Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences.

Britain's maritime tradition is well documented.

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce.

Driven by the increasingly expanding needs of infrastructure construction, operation and maintenance, as well as the rapid developments of intelligent sensing and information technology, precise engineering surveying has been transformed from static, discrete, and manual into dynamic, continuous, and intelligent ways.

Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment.

A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations

This introductory guide offers innovative ideas and strategies to students undertaking their first social science research work.

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy.

In general, trees are viewed as admired symbolic individuals, producing rec- ational, spiritual and emotional rejuvenation.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs.

Drawing on a range of European cases, this edited volume analyses the offshoring and outsourcing of foreign companies, with a focus on territorial embeddedness.

Die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Diskussionen um Heimat intensivieren sich.

Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures.

This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.

This book examines prospective climate adaptive building materials in desert and drylands in the context of climate change, desertification, urbanisation demands, and the consequent sustainable urban development challenges.

Housing is an essential, but complex, product, so complex that professionals involved in its production, namely, architects, real estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on "e;good"e; housing outcomes.

Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems.

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century.

The relationship between human rights and the environment, as evidenced by the 2022 UN Resolution on the human right to a healthy environment, is a topical, fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one.

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities.

Over more than two centuries the developmentofeconomic theory has created a wide array of different concepts, theories, and insights.

The global food system is characterized by large numbers of people experiencing food insecurity and hunger on the one hand, and vast amounts of food waste and overconsumption on the other.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the transformative journey toward smart cities and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in urban development.

Transitions are provided in hydraulic structures for economy and efficiency.

This book discusses contemporary China's land use policy - the Link Policy - which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development.

Who are expatriates?

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus.

This book, first published in 1965, was the first by a British soil expert in which he wrote a study of his subject from a geographical, not an agricultural or biological, viewpoint.

Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on a platform that included a congestion charge for central London, a policy that became reality on 17 February 2003.

First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

Stormwater Modeling presents the fundamentals of deterministic, parametric, and stochastic stormwater modeling.

In this book, the author describes in simple, non-technical terms the adventures he has experienced during his work as an earth scientist in some of the remote parts of the arid and semi-arid world.

Das urbane Zusammenleben beschäftigt die Menschen, seitdem sich Städte e- wickelt haben.

The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and principles that connect with the 'soul' of left-libertarianism, although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist tradition.

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture.

Despite their importance in terms of employment and income generation, inshore fisheries have been a neglected area of study.

A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.

This 2-volume set focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.