Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

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 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.

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

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

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

Dieses essential widmet sich dem Werk des Philosophen Hans Jonas und zwar aus dem Blickwinkel der Entwicklung seines Denkens.

This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War.

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

This book provides readers with a well-balanced blend of high-quality photographs, figures and accompanying texts on the identification of trace fossils, both in core and in outcrop.

This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities.

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 presents a collection of chapters covering research on the Litani River Basin.

Als einzigartiger Natur- und Kulturraum ist die Alpenregion von landschaftsverändernden Eingriffen der Energiewirtschaft besonders betroffen und daher lautet die Kernfrage des Autorenteams um Oliver D.

Stephan Schnorr erläutert die Grundzüge des Portfolio-Managements von Strom- und Gasmengen in Stadtwerken und gibt wertvolle Hinweise zur effizienten Bewirtschaftung.

This book sheds light on the process in which the sub-state actor of Greenland has expanded its autonomy and strengthened its de jure participation in the national security of Denmark.

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

This edited volume contains the best papers in the geo-engineering field accepted for presentation at the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Tunisia 2018.

This book describes the development of a system dynamics-based model that can capture the future trajectories of housing energy and carbon emissions.

This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners.

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food.

The book provides readers with essential insights into key issues in connection with planning, developing and financing sustainable energy projects in China that are relevant for practitioners, investors and developers involved in the emerging sustainable energy sector.

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

This book systematically provides an overview of the use of a wide range of spectroscopic methods (Mid- and Near-Infrared, Infrared Emission, Raman, Solid-State Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, X-ray Photoelectron, Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, X-ray Absorption Near Edge, Electron Spin and Mossbauer spectroscopy) to investigate kaolin minerals (kaolinite, dickite, nacrite and halloysite) and their modifications (intercalation compounds, nanocomposites and other modifications).

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

This book contributes to the literature on resilience, hazard planning, risk management, environmental policy and design, presenting articles that focus on building resilience through social and technical means.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.

This book focuses on Creep in Ceramics.

This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional.

This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings.

Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization.

The book demonstrates how new houses can be designed to be more sustainable and ergonomic.

One stormy August night, a lightning bolt struck Mark Warren's tin-roofed farmhouse and burnedeverything to the ground.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental-ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and 'development'.

Der Autor analysiert die Energiewirtschaft des aus Ostasien und Ozeanien bestehenden Erdteils mit mehr als zwei Milliarden Einwohnern.

This book discusses energy policy within the framework of the expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) and increasing resource use efficiency.

This edited volume contains the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

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

This book describes approaches, opinions, and concepts for new and emerging solutions and technologies that could be successfully applied in the configuration, optimization and management of supply networks in the highly volatile environment of today's global economy.

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact.