Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas.

This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States.

This book deals with institutional reforms in response to a mounting environmental crisis in Vietnam.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book summarizes recent research and development in the field of nanostructured ceramics and their composites.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of the IEC 62559 Use Case Methodology, explains how it is related to the Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM), and details how a holistic view for both architecture and requirements engineering can be achieved.

This book describes the application of modern information technology to reservoir modeling and well management in shale.

This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region.

This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies.

This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades.

This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities.

The book discusses the concept of the smart city, and is based on a multi-service and multi-sectoral approach to urban planning, including various urban functions and the human capital of cities.

This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the potential use of graphene-based materials in two important societal areas: medicine and the environment.

This book is about ethnic diversity in voluntary organizations and seeks to explain whether intergroup contact contributes to the development of generalized trust.

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography.

This volume provides a comprehensive method for optimizing solid waste management practices and procedures at college and university campuses through the use of cluster analysis to combine Life Cycle Assessment and Analytical Hierarchy Process.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

This book explores how a handful of liberal foundations contributed to establish and orientate the international climate regime.

This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic concept of landscape.

This book analyses the current and future viability of the Northern Sea Route as a stable transport route for the international transit traffic between Europe and the Far East.

The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us?

This book outlines the transitions between cultured and natural land cover/vegetation types and their implications in the search for alternatives to reverse the trend of anthropogenic environmental degradation.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.

This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies.

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices.

This book presents the essential principles and applications of seismic oil-exploration techniques.

The discourse on the human right to water presents deliberations on the concept, content and rationale for the right, with little attention to the practical question of translating the right into reality.

This CIGRE green book begins by addressing the specification and provision of communication services in the context of operational applications for electrical power utilities, before subsequently providing guidelines on the deployment or transformation of networks to deliver these specific communication services.

This book discusses the expansion of new activities carried out in Antarctica and the focus among treaty parties on the perceived challenges posed by adventure tourism in the region.

This essential reference guide to strategies and solutions for urban planning in hot arid environments reflects the journey toward many cities, towns and villages in Iran, which are documented and presented in the form of case studies and comparative analysis.

This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications.

The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

The book examines management strategies for developing and implementing strategic resilience and sustainability plans for sustainable and climate-resilient communities and organizations.

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C.

This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue.

This book builds up on the experience and lessons learnt by academics at the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI) at the University of Tokyo.

This timely treatise introduces an innovative prevention/preparedness model for cities to address and counter terrorist threats and events.