Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity.

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale.

This book presents findings from research into the Precambrian history of the Indian shield obtained using state-of-the-art technology.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

This book focuses on best management practices for drip irrigated crops.

Sedimentary structures, their character and physical basis Volume 1

Karst aquifers are important sources of drinking water worldwide.

Do new innovations and products improve our lives?

An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of which real estate is an integral dimension.

This book develops a whole strategy for decision-making, with the full participation of the decision-maker and utilizing continuous feedback.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

An understanding of environmental gradients (physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological) is a prerequisite to the accurate delineation of wetland boundaries.

This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of research and projects regarding climate change adaptation in coastal areas, providing government and nongovernment bodies with a sound basis to promote climate change adaptation efforts.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema.

Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the different legislations on consumers as well as likely developments in the future.

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

Tired of speaking to like-minded people, San Francisco blogger and radio journalist Rose Aguilar quit her job, bought a Toyota van, picked up her boyfriend, and took off on a six-month road trip through southern and mountain states.

This book explores the role of renewable energy sources in driving sustainable development, with a focus on their circular use in achieving environmental efficiency and an energy balance.

A research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars, for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers.

This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities.

An excellent book for professional crystallographers!

`Hybrid Geographies is one of the most original and important contributions to our field in the last 30 years.

Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment.

This book, with contributions from leading academics - and including reviews and case studies from Ethiopian Church forests - provides a valuable reference for advanced students and researchers interested in forest and other natural resource management, ecology and ecosystem services as well as restoration options.

First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists.

The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory.

From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability.

In 1966, American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, which created a National Register of Historic Places.

This book presents recent results of collaborative studies in geophysics and ecology, focusing on the relationship between the physical environment and the distribution of the marine coastal ecosystems.

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

This book brings forward the concept of the geology-environmental capacity of ground buildings.

Most of the time, industrial wastes contain recoverable resources that would be useful in other applications.

Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade.

Developments in Economic Geology, 15: Geochemical Exploration 1980 focuses on practices, processes, methodologies, and principles involved in geochemical exploration.

Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet's natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies.

Salinity is one of the acute problems causing enormous yield loss in many regions of the world.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.