Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book provides a cross-disciplinary overview of permafrost and the carbon cycle by providing an introduction into the geographical distribution of permafrost, with a focus on the distribution of permafrost and its soil carbon reservoirs.

This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS).

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of "e;weird"e; and "e;fantastic"e; literature and culture.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this book provides a nuanced picture of the everyday identifications experienced and expressed among the superdiverse Tamil migrant population in Britain.

Based on ethnographic research with asylum seekers living in a 'direct provision' centre in Ireland, and comprising participatory visual methods, this work offers a unique examination of the 'direct provision' system that analyses the tensions between exclusion and marginalization, and involvement and engagement with local communities.

The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.

This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for 'climate justice' and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change.

This book showcases how new and emerging technologies like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are trying to provide solutions to unresolved socio-economic and environmental problems.

This book describes the fundamentals and applications of wireless power transfer (WPT) in electric vehicles (EVs).

Offering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater.

Using primarily Russian sources, this book explains the political and economic aspects of nuclear power.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization.

This book presents a number of modeling studies of various water resources systems in the humid tropics and the typical short, steep mountain-to-coast systems in the archipelagic setting of the Philippines.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

This book explains vessels' ability to overcome ice on the Northern Sea Route, as well as the criteria of safe speed and maneuvering of vessels on ice.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.

This book presents the operational use of remote sensing in municipalities for urban planning purposes.

This book applies system theory to analyze the operation and structure of the complex earth surface system, including the interactions between society and nature that cause environmental degradation and threats to human populations.

This book provides detailed information on the methods and techniques that can be used to process coir, cocopeat and other coconut byproducts for developing various bioproducts.

This beautiful art book portrays the forces of nature through the main elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire.

This book provides in-depth information about the sea ice in the Arctic at scales from paleoenvironmental variability to more contemporary changes during the past and present centuries.

This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity.

This work revolves around the hydrogen economy and energy-storage electrochemical systems.

This book presents worked examples of five analytical procedures.

This book presents the design and development of an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, smart sensor to detect nitrate contamination in natural water.

This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its approach to environmentally displaced persons.

The book presents methodological and applied aspects of sustainability and sustainable management from different countries and regions around the globe.

This book explores categories of applications and driving factors surrounding the Smart City phenomenon.

This is a study on the long-lasting consequences of a disastrous earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world.

This book studies and disaggregates the "e;crisis of the suburbs"e; in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood.

"e;Although technological innovation is undoubtedly crucial for addressing climate change, low-carbon innovation policies and politics have hardly been studied.

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II.

The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book presents a collection of studies on current best practices for delivering sustainable development policies within supply chains.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities.

The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various "e;environmental nightmares"e; through applied analyses of Victorian texts.

This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts.

This book discusses how sediments compact with depth and applications of the compaction trends.

This book examines the British government's response to the 'superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration.

This book presents the characteristics and limitations of geological units, Cenozoic and geochronological concepts.

Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) generation.