Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes.

This professional guidebook highlights sustainable tourism development and management for businesses and destinations.

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete physical geography of Georgia in English.

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects.

This volume provides a comprehensive method for optimizing solid waste management practices and procedures at college and university campuses through the use of cluster analysis to combine Life Cycle Assessment and Analytical Hierarchy Process.

This book aims to introduce planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies.

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea.

This GeoGuide provides an overview of the geology of Alno, combined with an up-to-date field itinerary.

This 2-volumeset focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in.

This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing the first comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue.

This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet.

The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses, general readers.

This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria.

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa.

This 2-volume set focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in.

In this book geography educators from around the globe discuss their research into the power of geographical thinking and consider successful strategies to implement, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum.

This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies.

This brief reviews the pollination aspects of both wild and domesticated fruit tree species in a global climate change context.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia.

This volume provides expert coverage of the state-of-the-art in sol-gel materials for functional applications in energy, environment and electronics.

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the "e;Horizontal Metropolis"e; concept.

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices.

This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.

This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition.

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media.

This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History.

This book reviews the applications, technologies, standards, and other issues related to Smart Cities.

This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference - The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, and held in Sibenik, Croatia, from 29th to 30th September 2020.

This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River.

This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore.

This book explores the history of migration in Switzerland from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

The originality of this book is to review and characterize the current body of scientific publications that describe the complete causal sequence from reorganization of agricultural production to land use changes (LUC) and the resulting environmental impacts.

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it.

This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him.

This book examines the implications of the professional and judicial discourses on migrant youth in the Belgian youth justice system.

This book aims to account for the reception, treatment and sometimes, eventual deportation, of asylum seekers in Ireland, by analysing how they are framed and dealt with by the Irish state.

This book is not a historical or archaeological treatise, but rather a study in which the author looks at the past, not as a historian, but as a planner who has the ambition to unravel the early manifestations of his discipline; a discipline which did not exist as such in remote periods, but the ingredients of which were nevertheless present.

This book describes the observation of urban climates in Latin-American and their relationships with urban sprawl, the economic emergence of Latin American countries, social segregation, urban ecology, disasters and resilience.

New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European "e;refugee crisis.

This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security.

This book describes the Aguablanca Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposit, the first, and to date only, mineralization of this type in southwestern (SW) Europe.