Geography

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe.

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather.

Fieldwork is a hallmark of geographical scholarship, encompassing all the approaches by which we learn first-hand about the world.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly, and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark.

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

This book provides basic and advanced concepts of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), PolSAR, InSAR, PolInSAR, and all necessary information about various applications and analysis of data of multiple sensors.

This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences.

The definitive guide to bringing accuracy to measurement, updated and supplemented Adjustment Computations is the classic textbook for spatial information analysis and adjustment computations, providing clear, easy-to-understand instruction backed by real-world practicality.

Urban Process and Power has two chief aims.

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today.

A concise textbook focusing on organisational behaviour in the African context, this book is featured in Routledge's new Essentials of Business and Management in Africa shortform textbook series.

This book provides solid empirical evidence into the role that countries and communities of origin play in the migrant integration processes at destination.

The taxicab makes a significant contribution to the accessibility of a city, and provides a wide range of services across many different social groups and urban environments.

Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people.

This book describes the spatial and temporal perspectives on COVID-19 and its impacts and deepens our understanding of human dynamics during and after the global pandemic.

The digital age is also a surveillance age.

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked.

,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich.

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city.

How do drugs get to the market?

Research into microwave radiation from the Earth's surface in the presence of vegetation canopies, as well as the development of algorithms for retrieval of soil and vegetation parameters from microwave radiometric measurements, have been actively conducted for the last 30 years by scientific groups worldwide.

Explore the fascinating evolution of cartography in The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800, Volume 1.

This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training and research.

This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth.

Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage incremental change.

What makes a visually appealing landscape?

This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region.

The Freshwaters of Patagonia adopts a socioecological approach, in which experts from across Patagonia review recent, scientifically rigorous literature and data of their own, thus synthesizing the current knowledge directly relevant to understand the present state and future trends of icefields, freshwater and wetland ecosystems in this region.

In a new and engaging study, Halemba explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai.

This book discusses plant invasions and environmental impacts on the Himalayas through a novel procedure, and helps to understand the influences of climate, physiography, soil, and disturbance on plant richness in mountain systems.

The emerging literature on the so-called 'Arab Spring' has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres.

This 2-volumeset 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.

Advances in Hydroscience, Volume 11 -1978 covers topics on the progressive development in water science, including stochastic hydrology, the numerical analysis for hydrodynamic modeling, solid-state hydrology, and subsurface waters.

In recent decades, Asia's ascent has been contextualized as the rise of two major neighboring countries in Asia - India and China.

Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win.

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disasters Theoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order

This three volume reference series provides an authoritative and comprehensive set of volumes collecting together the most influential articles and papers on tourism, heritage and culture.

Members of the middle class in colonial Malabar left behind a copious amount of writings.

Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector.

The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up.

Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives?

The application of ionic liquids to biomass for producing biofuels and chemicals will be one of the hot research areas during the next decade due to the fascinating properties of these versatile group of solvents that allow them to dissolve lignocellulosic materials.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.

This book presents a new way of thinking about, teaching, learning, and practicing real estate development.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.

This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world.

A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who traveled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience.