Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world.

This book analyses visitor responses to the interpretation of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Australian protected areas, focusing on Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales.

This book makes the case for the welfare state.

For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities.

Gated communities are a new "e;"e;hot button"e;"e; in many North American cities.

This book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological strategy for consolidation of radionuclides in uranium tailings.

Previous volumes in this 'Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research' (DPER) series have focussed on providing in-depth descriptions of palaeoenvironmental techniques or have described the applications of these approaches on various regional bases.

Wasserfälle faszinieren durch die ungebändigte Kraft der herabstürzenden Wassermassen und sind von grosser touristischer Bedeutung.

Nature''s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology''s past, first published in 1994.

Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under strong public scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration?

This book provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the theory of random fields and its applications.

This textbook is a practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting that provides a rigorous description of a coupled stochastic and physically based flow routing method and its practical applications.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on bamboo in Vietnam, drawing on the anthropology of gesture, ethnobotany and the history of technology.

Increasingly, the European Union and its member states have exhibited a lack of commitment to protecting the human rights of non-citizens.

The present volume Geography and Environment: Issues and Challenges is a festschrift in honour of Prof.

This book combines research on technology-driven and social-driven innovation in tourism destinations and the multifaceted concept of sustainability, providing an integrative understanding of the nexus between smartness and sustainability within destinations.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation.

Our understanding of the subsurface system of the earth is becoming increasingly more sophisticated both at the level of the behaviour of its components (solid, liquid and gas) as well as their variations in space and time.

The book covers novel technologies, including high pressure, antimicrobials, and electromagnetism, and their impact.

The Niger Delta Region has in the past two decades experienced protracted violent conflicts.

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth's forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases-as well as a diminished capacity of the planet to absorb and store those wastes.

This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution.

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies.

Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance.

Although designed primarily for desktop mapping and analysis, Geographic Information Systems have, for some years, been 'coupled' to other 'allied' technologies.

Transcaucasian boundaries"e; provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union.

La autora analiza la actividad extractiva del Perú y esa violencia colonial en la que se desarrolla.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

There are few marine creatures as spectacular as the Basking Shark.

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

This book provides an essential overview of wind science and engineering, taking readers on a journey through the origins, developments, fundamentals, recent advancements and latest trends in this broad field.

The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.

Aus der Geschichte lernen, kann man nur, wenn die Geschichte richtig erzählt wird.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe.

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

This book covers important aspects of the field of food security and safety, ranging from fundamental production, through advanced water treatment technologies and detection of novel pollutants, to management and policy making.

Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have been concerned for a long time about failure phenomena.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

This book presents an overview of the general field of biomimetics and biologically inspired, hierarchically structured surfaces.

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels.

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society.

The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies.

This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.

Scientists, representing the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, ecology epidemiology, medicine, microbiology, public health, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental protection and bioethics from 15 countries and 3 continents came together in May 8-12 2005, in Sofia, Bulgaria to discuss the future of water safety and security.