Geography

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

The first book in the series provides the concept of a theoretical redefinition of 'horizontal geographies'.

This book discusses how rural built heritage preservation and development in the Chinese ethnic area in Tongren, China has been strongly addressed by the labeling, planning, project-making, follow-up management characterized by different patterns of stakeholders.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.

This book provides insight into the importance and impacts that experiential learning has in geographic education.

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).

This two-volume set showcases the various ways in which geospatial technology can be used to achieve sustainable development goals across different sectors such as urban planning, natural resource management, agriculture, disaster management, and energy management.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

This book provides insight into the importance and impacts that experiential learning has in geographic education.

This book explores the surface and subsurface hydrological conditions and their management in a tropical or sub-tropical setting applying geospatial and geostatistical derived predictive methods.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book addresses quantitative assessment of forest governance and how local-level institutions work in governing efficient ways of forest resource management so that sustainable development of forest is ensured.

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing.

Mathematical Geoscience is an expository textbook which aims to provide a comprehensive overview of a number of different subjects within the Earth and environmental sciences.

This SpringerBrief describes the development and use of a synthetic indicator to assess different degrees of sustainability adoption by economic sector and businesses size.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterranean.

This book investigates all facets of Chinese tourism in a single destination, and its fascinating rise and evolution.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business.

Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to ninety million acres across the Southeast.

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River.

In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book examines the establishment and implementation of the AfCFTA, which is the largest free trade area globally, covering 54 African countries.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This proceedings book provides selections from the 2023 Topical Issues in International Political Geography (TIPG) meeting.

This book addresses the complex challenges and responsibilities involved in preserving humanity's collective heritage.

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Summary PostGIS in Action, Second Edition teaches readers of all levels to write spatial queries that solve real-world problems.

SummaryLocation-Aware Applications is a comprehensive guide to the technology and business of creating compelling location-based services and applications.

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Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

This book is a forward-thinking exploration of the future of urban development.

Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle.

In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.

At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.