This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.
This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
El trabajo dirigido por las docentes e investigadoras Mónica Cortellezzi y Nesrin Karake contó con la valiosa colaboración del cartógrafo Martín Rizzo y los geógrafos profesionales Yésica Jacqueline Tapiz y Daniel Aricoma Mérida, quienes realizaron diferentes tareas para la concreción de este atlas.
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 fascinating, multi-disciplinary collection examines how public health interventions in postcolonial Africa mirror wider manifestations of power in the region.
This edited collection brings together leading and emerging international scholars who explore citizenship through the two overarching themes of Indigeneity and ethnicity.
Volume 2 of the book 'Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere' is sub-titled Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere.
This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research, drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do, think about, and navigate research.
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America.
This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change.
The beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the creations it has inspired, told by the only truly bespoke globemakers in the world, Bellerby & Co.
This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.
Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans brings together authors who are thinking in, with and through the spaces of ocean/s and beaches in South African contexts to make alternative knowledges towards a justice-to-come and flourishing at a planetary level.
Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.
This book examines two large and highly controversial urban infill projects in two peripheral European capitals-Tirana and Helsinki-through the lens of dramaturgy and political theatre.
This book examines two large and highly controversial urban infill projects in two peripheral European capitals-Tirana and Helsinki-through the lens of dramaturgy and political theatre.
When they left America in the 1930s to serve as missionaries in the remote jungles of Liberia, West Africa, Harold and Ella Landrus could never have imagined the challenges they would face.
This book aims to explore and showcase global case studies focused on creating buildings and communities that promote health while enhancing climate resilience.
A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected.
Stefan Zweig erzählt in diesem Buch in dramatischen Schilderungen von den Seereisen des portugiesischen Kapitäns Ferdinand Magellan nach Indien, zunächst um Afrika herum, später um die Südspitze des amerikanischen Kontinents.
Adam's Bridge offers the first comprehensive transdisciplinary study of the famous eponymous tombolo (also known as Ram Setu) combining its sacral, historical, geological, political, performative, and heritage aspects into one framework, viewed under the critical lenses of island studies and cultural theory.
Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.
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Die Geschichte, die CERES COLONY CAVALIER erzählt, ist verstörend, denn es ist ein Tatsachenbericht – und doch erscheint das Geschilderte unmöglich: Tony Rodrigues wurde als Kind aus seinem Körper entführt und sein Bewusstsein in einen Klon implantiert.
A timely enquiry into the disjuncture between schooling and society, this book aims to examine the specific spatialities and temporalities of modern schooling through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other'.
A timely enquiry into the disjuncture between schooling and society, this book aims to examine the specific spatialities and temporalities of modern schooling through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other'.
This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2023 conference, held in EDF Lab Chatou, France, with the support of Societe Hydrotechnique de France (SHF), the Association Francaise de Mecanique (AFM), the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).
Confronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bnh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of authentic eateries run byand forimmigrants and people of color.
Following two successful editions, the third edition of GIS: A Computing Perspective has been completely revised and updated, with extensive new content reflecting the significant progress that has been made in the realm of GIS within the last 20 years.
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested.
