Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This edited book discusses various challenges in teaching structural geology and tectonics and how they have been overcome by eminent instructors, who employed effective and innovative means to do so.

This book highlights current efforts and research in Malaysia on conversion of bio-resources to renewable energy of biofuel as an alternative way of producing energy from fossil-based fuels.

This edited collection unveils the pivotal role of entrepreneurship in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This book presents an overview of both the theory and experimental methods required to realize high efficiency solar absorber devices.

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks.

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney's Millers Point and The Rocks communities.

This book introduces readers to the preparation of two-dimensional metal sulfide/oxide for CO2 photoreduction.

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

This book presents recent advances in the area of Radioscience, Equatorial Atmospheric Science and Environment from the international symposium for equatorial atmosphere of the celebration of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) 20th Anniversary, conducted by Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) and Kyoto University, in 2021.

This book is a collection of seminal position essays by leading researchers on new development in Geographic Information Sciences (GIScience), covering a wide range of topics and representing a variety of perspectives.

 This is the first book to clarify the relationships between multi-functions of urban agriculture, creative classes, and social business in China and Japan.

This book gives a rigorous and up-to-date study of the various AI and machine learning algorithms for resolving environmental challenges associated with blasting.

Nominated by Tsinghua University as an outstanding Ph.

This book systematically introduces Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs).

This book contains selected articles from the third International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2022 (3ICGE-2022) held on May 29-31, 2022, at the University of Baghdad/Baghdad/Iraq.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

These proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC 2018,  held during 23rd-25th May in Harbin, China.

This book discusses the instrumentation of supercapacitors, various measurement procedures and the techniques used for the performance evaluation, to help determine the appropriate methodology for the evaluation of a supercapacitor device and also to identify the inconsistencies between the device performance and electrode material properties.

This multi-disciplinary book presents the most recent advances in exergy, energy, and environmental issues.

This book highlights recent advances in the identification, prediction and exploitation of demand side (DS) flexibility and investigates new methods of predicting DS flexibility at various different power system (PS) levels.

These proceedings gather selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation Systems and Safety, held in Beijing, China on November 17-19, 2021.

Environmental pollution emanating from rapid industrialization, population growth, and urbanization has been considered a major problem in recent years that affects biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health by contaminating soil and water.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Tiangong-2 Data Utilization Conference, which was held in Beijing, China, in December 2018.

These proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC 2018,  held during 23rd-25th May in Harbin, China.

This book reports the latest work on green technologies in palm oil milling processes, including new processes and various optimisation techniques.

This book highlights the importance of incorporating coal bottom ash (CBA) into self-compacting concrete exposed to aggressive conditions.

This book provides full-scale field tests of different types of pile foundations.

This book explores recent trends in the knowledge-based society and education field in Asia-Pacific and discusses future challenges in the region.

This book presents selected articles from INDIA SMART UTILTY WEEK (ISUW 2019), which is the fifth edition of the Conference cum Exhibition on Smart Grids and Smart Cities, organized by India Smart Grid Forum from 12-16 March 2019 at Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, India.

This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity.

This book highlights the essential theoretical and practical aspects of lightning, lightning protection, safety and education.

This book presents selected articles from INDIA SMART UTILTY WEEK (ISUW 2020), which is the sixth edition of the Conference cum Exhibition on Smart Grids and Smart Cities, organized by India Smart Grid Forum from March 03-07, 2020, in New Delhi, India.

In geomorphology, landform inheritance refers to the inherited relationship of different landform morphologies in a certain area during the evolutionary process.

This book comprises select proceedings of the international conference ETAEERE 2020, and primarily focuses on renewable energy resources and smart grid technologies.

The book contains select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control (SGESC 2021).

This book offers an introduction to remotely sensed image processing and classification in R using machine learning algorithms.

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years.

This book presents the achievements made in solar energy and prospects in achieving solar potential in India.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the seismic and geological response characteristics of major tectonic types, typical reservoirs, and typical geological bodies in China, illustrated in diagrams.

This book focuses on the properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and recent advances in their application in lignocellulosic biomass processing.

This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations.

This book highlights the need for effective water governance in India given the fact that the country has been facing serious water stress in recent years.

This book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2020 (EPREC-2020).

The books deals with the critical issues of climate change and its impact on agriculture and proposes climate smart agriculture as the probable solution to this issue.

This book highlights the use of Solidification/Stabilization (S/S) to treat lead-contaminated soils, which are widely present in China.

This book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2020 (EPREC 2020).

This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice.

This thesis provides multidisciplinary perspectives on changes in global mass transports, especially in the global water cycle.