Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book underpins the geography of the Black Sea, covering topics such as morphology, morphography, geology, and history of the Black Sea.

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world's first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979.

This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations.

The purpose of this book is to present a range of cases and comparison of the issues, insights and cases emerging from the Sustainable Energy Mix Summit in the Galapagos that offer a better understanding of energy mix in fragile environments from a variety of International locations and contexts including the Galapagos.

This book offers the guidelines on long-term confinement of fine particulate waste products in a safe and environmentally acceptable location.

This book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

This unique book addresses Iran's extremely rich soil diversity and resources, which have developed under various climatic conditions ranging from dry to humid conditions.

This Brief is devoted to clean drinking water, which is (one of) the most important asset(s) in the food and beverage industry.

The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective.

The book comprises the 3rd collection of benchmarks and examples for porous and fractured media mechanics.

This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming.

This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes.

This monograph explores the dire ecological, social, and economic situations facing mankind through comprehensive analyses of global ecological issues, poverty, environmental stability and regulation, and sustainable development.

This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands.

This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China.

Sustainable development has become a great concern in modern society.

This book aims to clarify the issue of groundwater in coastal saline environment management.

This book gathers older and current knowledge of the evolution and functioning of cuesta landscapes to provide a better understanding of the Luxembourgian landscape.

This book documents research activities and design experimentation carried out within the scope of a project addressing conservation, urban regeneration, responsible use of resources, and sustainable development in a truly exceptional place: the city of Luxor.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book presents tools for valuing and controlling corporate innovation.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current developments in the field of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region's economy, politics or environment.

This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua.

This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime.

This edited volume focuses on comprehensive state-of-the-art information about the practical aspects of cultivation, harvesting, biomass processing and biofuel production from algae.

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids.

This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History.

This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups.

This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy.

This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world's largest delta - the Sundarbans.

This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor.

This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management.

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas.

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050.

This well-established textbook on biocatalysis provides a basis for undergraduate and graduate courses in modern organic chemistry, as well as a condensed introduction into this field.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address.

This book looks at the New Urban Agenda and prospects of its implementation.

This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional social well being approach.

This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice.

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.

This book reviews the applications, technologies, standards, and other issues related to Smart Cities.

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism.

This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona.

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career.