Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book brings together technical expertise, best practices, case studies and ground-level application of the ideas for empowering the rural population of the world to live economically prosperous, environmentally sustainable, and socially progressive lives, on par or comparable with the quality of life enjoyed by the global urban population.

This book is the first comprehensive review of the subsurface monitoring theory and practice.

This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference - The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, and held in Sibenik, Croatia, from 29th to 30th September 2020.

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa.

This book sheds light on current issues in sustainable finance through an in-depth analysis and discussion of relevant sustainable products and sustainable initiatives of several financial institutions.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

This book traces the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel during the 'boat people' crisis of 1975-79.

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work.

This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This book provides an overview of air quality in Albania evaluated by moss biomonitoring and metals atmospheric deposition.

This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet.

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

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book provides an indispensable reference guide to the sustainable control and treatment of biomass residues from a wide variety of agroindustrial sources, e.

This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This book describes methods used to estimate forces and deformations in structures during future earthquakes.

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the "e;Horizontal Metropolis"e; concept.

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

This book explores new criteria and characteristics for integrating human psychology in the design of modern urban lighting.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

 With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth.

This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field.

This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components.

This book provides a complete and current overview of the correlation between ocean conditions and human health, publishing comprehensively for the first time on the direct interactions among oceanography, marine biology and impacts on human health.

This book derives from observations of the contemporary built environment and its contradictions.

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

In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape.

This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons variously bounded by mobile belts and palaeo-rifts.

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels.

The book communicates coastal geology such that the reader gets a better understanding of how scientists work and how scientific knowledge is acquired and how it progresses.

The "e;Blue Economy"e; is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability.

This book presents recent innovative trends in land, water and energy management in Vietnam.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the securitisation of climate change in the US, Germany and Mexico and offers a rethinking of securitisation theory.

This book describes the water security challenges with focus on water scarcity and quality in our rapidly changing world.

This volume discusses theory, philosophy, praxis and methods in Environmental and Ecological education, and considers the junction with the main visions and issues of Critical Pedagogy.

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water.

The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding.

International scholarship is increasingly aware that the 'geographical tradition' is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions.

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality.

This book presents the results of an experiment assessing the impact of spruce wood joints on the creation and development of fire when these joints are applied within a facade.

This book examines the political economy of devolution in Britain from the postwar period to the present.

This book uses international case studies to present insights on the policies, actors, and institutions that are critical to successful transit-oriented development (TOD).