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  • 1
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    Migration, Social Capital, and Health : Insights from Ghana and Uganda (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Medicine, Preventive. ; Health promotion. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Medical policy. ; Diseases. ; Integrated Geography. ; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. ; Human Migration. ; Health Policy. ; Diseases.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Migration, Social Capital, and Health -- Chapter3: Disease Patterns: Communicable and Non-communicable -- Chapter4: Environmental Risks to Health -- Chapter5: Health Literacy of Migrants: Environmental Risks to Health -- Chapter6: Health Literacy of Migrants: Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases -- Chapter7: Social Capital and Acculturation -- Chapter8: Social Capital and Health. .
    Abstract: This book brings readers the first scientific publication, using a mixed-method approach, on the internal migration dynamics regarding disease ecologies of informality and the interactions between social capital, lifestyles, health literacy, and health outcomes in the context of informal settlements in two developing countries - Ghana and Uganda. Through the prism of the concepts of place and scale, the book demonstrates the myriad of ways by which place or context directly and indirectly influence migrant's health knowledge, literacy, and outcomes in poor urban slums. Readers will learn about the multi-faceted linkages between social capital, acculturation, and health in places of deprivation via quantitative methods (e.g. surveys) and qualitative methods such as focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, concept mapping, and body health mapping. Chapters 1-2 provide an overview of internal migration into urban slums of Ghana and Uganda, and discuss the intersections between migration, social capital, and health in a global context. Chapters 3-7 address disease patterns, environmental risks to health, health literacy of migrants, social capital and acculturation, and social capital and health. The book will be of interest to professors and students, as well as policy makers in low to middle income countries for planning targeted interventions. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 153 p. 42 illus., 38 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030246938
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24693-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24693-8
    DDC: 910
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    The Atlas of Health Inequalities in Japan (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Medical informatics. ; Geographic information systems. ; Medical economics. ; Medical care. ; Integrated Geography. ; Health Informatics. ; Geographical Information System. ; Health Economics. ; Health Care.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Introduction. Chapter 2 -- The shape of Japan: methods and data. Chapter 3 -- Death across life courses. Chapter 4 -- Cancer deaths. Chapter 5 -- Deaths from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases. Chapter 6 -- Other major causes of death. Chapter 7 -- Synthesis.
    Abstract: This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.e. detailed maps of health indicators in small areas using cartograms. This is the first comprehensive small-area based health atlas about contemporary Japan using vital statistics from 1995-2014. Each map is supplemented with concise explanations written by leading epidemiologists and health geographers in Japan. The book employs various cutting-edge methods in spatial epidemiology, Bayesian spatial smoothing for the reliable mapping of mortality indices, advanced cartographic transformations using the concept of aerial cartograms, and summary statistics of socioeconomic health inequalities. The atlas highlights geographical aspects of social gradients in health by comparing mortality maps with distribution of deprivation index during the recent long-lasting economic stagnation period of Japan known as the lost decades. This health atlas will be a useful resource for international comparisons between Japan and other advanced countries in terms of health and related socioeconomic disparities between regions. It will be of interest to public health practitioners, administrators, researchers and students working on health geography and public health.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIX, 343 p. 336 illus., 335 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030227074
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22707-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22707-4
    DDC: 910
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    Culture and Sustainability : Exploring Stability and Transformation with the Cultures Framework (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Environmental geography. ; Economic development. ; Sustainability. ; Culture. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Integrated Geography. ; Development Studies. ; Sustainability. ; Sociology of Culture. ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – Culture’s divergence -- Chapter 3 – Culture’s convergence -- Chapter 4 – The cultures framework -- Chapter 5 – Cultural stability -- Chapter 6 – Cultural change -- Chapter 7 – Using the cultures framework for policy analysis -- Chapter 8 – Using the cultures framework for research -- Chapter 9 – Conclusion.
    Abstract: This Open access book brings a cultural lens, and a distinctive analytical framework, to the problem of transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon future. The world faces a seemingly impossible hurdle – to radically alter long-established social, economic and technological systems in order to live within the biophysical limits of the globe, while ensuring a just and enduring transition. The overarching premise of this book is that this cannot be achieved without widespread cultural change. ‘We need a change in culture’ is often used rhetorically, but what does this really mean? Stephenson starts by exploring culture’s elusiveness, describing its divergent interpretations before identifying core features of culture that are common across most definitions. These characteristics form the core of the cultures framework, an extensively tested approach to studying the links between culture and sustainability outcomes. The framework makes culture an accessible concept which can be analytically applied to almost any sustainability problem. Using many examples from around the world, Stephenson illustrates how cultural stability, cultural flexibility and cultural transformation all have a part to play in the sustainability transition. She guides the reader in the use of the cultures framework for policy development and to underpin research undertaken by individuals or by multi-disciplinary teams. Clearly and engagingly written, Culture and Sustainability is essential reading for academics, students, policy makers and indeed anyone interested in a sustainable future. Janet Stephenson is a research professor at the Centre for Sustainability, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A social scientist with a background in sociology, planning and cultural geography, she has a longstanding interest in the social determinants of the transition to a sustainable future. Much of her research examines the interplay between culture and sustainability in a variety of contexts. She is passionate about collaborative, interdisciplinary research and the contribution of different knowledge systems to solution-finding.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVII, 243 p. 28 illus., 12 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031255151
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25515-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25515-1
    DDC: 304.2
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    Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience : An Introduction (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Climatology. ; Environmental geography. ; Sustainable architecture. ; Sustainability. ; Urban Ecology. ; Climate Sciences. ; Integrated Geography. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.
    Description / Table of Contents: Green Infrastructure (GI) -- Urban Green Infrastructure and Sustainability -- Climate Change and Built Environment -- Sustainable Urban Planning -- Green Buildings -- Assessment, Quantification, and Valuation of Green Infrastructure -- Urban Climate Resilience -- Multi-functionality of Green Resilient Arena -- Policies -- Challenges and future perspectives.
    Abstract: This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smart city development, urban climate change nexus, green buildings and rating systems, economic assessment, and quantification of green infrastructure. The impending climate crisis, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted the importance of green infrastructure in and around cities, prompting a call for more functional and sustainable urban planning and design. A number of recent studies have shown that green infrastructure provides a wide range of ecosystem functions and services critical to human well-being and urban sustainability, which is especially important during climatic and health crises. In this book, the authors emphasize the importance of existing green infrastructure in coping with climate change-induced stresses, such as increasing climate variability and extreme temperature and precipitation events, as well as contributing to urban dwellers' physical and mental health. Green infrastructure, in both cases, plays a significant role in providing urban areas with resilience capacity, which is critical to urban sustainability. The authors also emphasize the importance of expanding and improving green infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable areas, through integrative and participatory processes. Appropriate integration of green-gray infrastructure and development of climate resilient cities is the core theme of this publication. Further, it emphasizes sustainable development which has become an imperative requirement to the world to move fore and climate change-built environment nexus, the most critical global crisis. Though several books were published globally on the green infrastructure and urban resilience individually, books are rarely published combining both disciplines. This book identifies and addresses the gap through comprehensively discussing on both interlinked areas which is essential for the sustainable urban development. Further, it explores on urban climate resilience, urban sprawl, urbanization, resilience drivers, essentials of city resilience, policy implications, challenges, and future perspectives. This book is a useful fundamental guide in practical applications of green infrastructure in built environment in sustainability context. Further, it enlightens on the significance of transforming the conventional building construction trend to sustainable urban planning designs and building development, exploring on the strategic pathway on building urban climate resilience while signifying the importance of healthy built environment through discussing on the nexus between climate change and built environment.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 400 p. 139 illus., 120 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031370816
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37081-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37081-6
    DDC: 304.2
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  • 5
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    Socio-Spatial Small Town Dynamics in South Africa (2023)
    Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Urban policy. ; Environmental geography. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Integrated Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. A Review of Recent Small Town Research in South Africa (Ronnie Donaldson & Musfiqah Majiet) -- 2. The Relationship between White Privilege, Segregation, Topophobia and Symbolic Boundaries in Secunda, Mpumalanga (Tarryn Paquet) -- 3. Neglect of Municipal infrastructure in the Mining Town of Phalaborwa (Manfred Spocter) -- 4. Collaborative Governance, Social Capital and Drought: A Case Study of a Collaborative Governance Regime in Graaff-Reinet (Rebecca Light) -- 5. Surviving the Tides: A Study of Small-scale Fisheries and Community Livelihoods in Selected Coastal Towns of the Western Cape, South Africa (Samantha Williams) -- 6. The State and Implications of Housing Provision in Small Towns: Experiences in the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality, Eastern Cape Province (John Ntema, Robert Mongwe & Eliot Mathebula) -- 7. The Socio-economic Wellbeing of Small Mining Towns in the Northern Cape (Avril Gardiner & Ronnie Donaldson) -- 8. Complex Town-gown Relationships and the Paradoxes of Studentification in the South African Traditional Authority Lands (Nothile Ndimande) -- 9. Local Government Election Trends in Small Towns (Stephen Rule) -- 10. The Historical Development of South African Small Towns as Spa Resorts (Christian M. Rogerson & Jayne M. Rogerson).
    Abstract: This book explores small town geographical aspects by approaching them from a socio-spatial perspective. The contributions included in this book delve into a range of topics that have not been commonly studied before, such as white privilege, neglect of municipal infrastructure, collaborative governance, livelihoods in small-scale fisheries, housing provision, well-being in mining towns, studentification in rural contexts, election trends, and the historical development of small-town spas. The book adopts a socio-spatial point of view, providing a holistic understanding of the interplay between social and spatial factors within selected small town case studies. This approach sheds light on the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics that shape small towns. This localized perspective allows for a more targeted analysis of issues and potential solutions, taking into account the specific historical, cultural, and political contexts of small town South Africa. The edited volume serves as a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding and improving small towns in South Africa.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VI, 242 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031371424
    Series Statement: Urban Perspectives from the Global South,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37142-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37142-4
    DDC: 304.2
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    Adolescent Health in the Middle East and North Africa : An Epidemiological Perspective (2022)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Human geography. ; Medical care. ; Integrated Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Health Care.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1-Adolescent Health in the MENA Region: Determinants and Distribution -- 2-Adolescent nutrition: a focus on the MENA -- 3-Addressing Social Determinants of Oral Health among Adolescents from MENA -- 4-Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in relation to Vitamin D Deficiency among older adolescents -- 5-Activity among Adolescents from the MENA -- 6-Exploring Factors for Predictive Modelling of Obesity and Overweight in Adolescents: Application to MENA Region -- 7-Determinants of Knowledge in relation to Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region -- 8-Growth Assessment in Adolescence: Measurement and Interpretation for the Middle East and North Africa -- 9-Oral health of adolescents in the MENA region -- 10-Demographic and Geographic Variations in Respiratory and Allergic Conditions among Adolescents in the United Arab Emirates -- 11-The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus among in adolescents and their determinants in from the Middle East and North Africa Region -- 12-HIV and sexual health in MENA’s adolescents.
    Abstract: 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. While there has been a surge in peer-reviewed research publications on population health in the MENA region in the last couple of decades, very few books offer a resource to address the diverse negative influences that disproportionately affect adolescents and children in the MENA region, including increased tobacco consumption culture, low emphasis on physical activity, increased sedentary behaviours, weak health policies, and societal issues related to displacement and political conflicts. These books offer a synthesis of current knowledge on adolescent health issues in the MENA region, and aim to provide evidence-informed adolescent health care practices that address current issues related to mental, physical, reproductive and nutritional health. Volume 2 focuses on nutritional and reproductive health in the MENA region, predictive modelling of obesity, determinants of sexual and oral health, HIV, and diabetes. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 199 p. 20 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030921071
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92107-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92107-1
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  • 7
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    At the Frontiers of Everyday Life : New Research in Cramped Spaces (2023)
    Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Human geography. ; Urban policy. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Integrated Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cramped spaces, w(r)iggle room and everyday politics: An introduction -- Part 1: Everyday geographies of scholar activism -- Should I stay or should I go? Academic tempered radicalism in the era of ecological crisis -- Towards ‘minor’ methodologies or crisis as method -- Part 2: Repertoires of research methodologies and fieldwork experiences -- The sympoietic orchard: Everyday ways of co-creating an orchard -- Researching urban coworking spaces: Everyday life and reflexivity during the fieldwork -- Beyond the club: A feminist poetic inquiry to reimagine festive spaces and practices of the electronic scene in Paris -- Mapping sifikile – A place of home: Methodological reflections on hope from a coal frontier -- Madame Ruetabaga’s prefigurative politics at the urban fringes of Grenoble -- Digital practices on social media: New perspectives on the production of space and geopolitical inquiry -- Part 3: Embodied negotiations: Agency, survival, care -- Life at the margins: Women’s everyday practices as resistance in a working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona -- Digitalisation of working space: Women working from home in Turkey -- Home, work and everyday life: Gender dynamics in a mining city -- Epilogue.
    Abstract: The book provides a critical analysis of the geographies of everyday life, looking at how spatial practices craft w(r)iggle room to cope with the boundaries saturated by normativity, power relations, and inequalities. It explores the possibilities for making do with the everyday practices forming a way of living in cramped spaces. In this respect, early-career researchers and activists share their fieldwork experiences through an intersectional lens based on emerging research methodologies and scholar-activist practices. From their own vantage point, they look at their own contexts, practices, and research subjects at the level of everyday life. Spatial practices and place-based imaginaries from France, Finland, and Spain to Turkey and South Africa present a wide range of non-counter hegemonic yet enabling practices for transformation in everyday life. The contributors, trained in a variety of convergent disciplines concerned with everyday life and space (geography, geopolitics, architecture, urban planning, sociology, political sciences), discuss scholar-activist methodologies during the current crisis in contemporary academia, reflect on their research methodologies and research experiences, and inquire into the ways of embodied negotiations for agency, survival, and care. A group of early-career researchers and activists came together to seek out the possibilities of transformative change in everyday life during the peak periods of COVID-19. When researchers and activists were forced to stay at home in isolation, the authors met up online to discuss their subjectivities self-reflexively to challenge the distance between the researcher and “the field.” The book is the outcome of their collective production based on numerous meetings, writing workshops, and creative debates.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 224 p. 23 illus., 18 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031465802
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46580-2
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  • 8
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    Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities (2020)
    Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Climatology. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Economic development. ; Geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Climate Sciences. ; Urban Sociology. ; Development Studies. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Systems Approach for Climate Change Impacts on Urban Health: Conceptual Framework, Modeling and Practice -- “SITE” (Societal-Institutional-Technical-Economic) Valuation framework : A case of drinking water facilities and services in slum areas of Hyderabad region -- Inequalities in access to water and sanitation: a case of slums in major states of India -- Chennai floods 2005, 2015: vulnerability, risk and climate change -- An environmental study of solid waste management system in of Chandrapur city, Maharashtra, India -- Linkages between Purdah Practice, Women Autonomy and Their Health Beliefs in India -- Development of urban heat island and its relation to heat waves -- Growing urbanization, health infrastructure and vector-borne diseases: A study in Khammam municipal corporation, Telangana state -- Maternal Reproductive Health: A Comparison between India and Empowered Action Group States -- Research Frontiers in Water, Environment and Human Health -- Impacts of resource consumption and waste generation on environment and its impact on human health: A study based on ecological footprint analysis -- The Impact Of Climate Change On Human Eyes -- Health and Well-being of Ageing Population in India: A Case Study of Kolkata -- Noise pollution and its consequences on urban health in Sylhet city -- Health Scenario in Delhi – Status and Recent Trends of Vector Borne and Water Borne Diseases in NCT of Delhi -- Quality of living, health and wellbeing of slum dwelling women domestic workers in Kolkata -- Urban Growth and Environment and Health Hazards in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal -- Impact of Urbanisation on Megacities’ Lakes Using Remote Sensing Technique – A Case Study of Water Quality Analysis in Ambattur Lake, Chennai, India -- Impacts of urbanization of ground water pollution – an emerging issue and some suggestions -- Evaluation of mass rapid transit system : A case study of Delhi -- The first survey of flood disaster Preparedness in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Tradition meets innovation: Herbal medicine as a sustainable source of anticancer agents -- Urban Health Infrastructure in Small Cities: Is it Availability or Accessibility? -- An approach to social sustainability in Chennai – understanding the dynamics of public places -- Water scarcity in Delhi: Mapping for solutions and the way forward. .
    Abstract: This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities. Today, cities are the dominant human habitat, where a large number of environmental, social, cultural and economic factors have impacts on human health and wellbeing. Cities consist of complex, dynamic, socio-ecological, and technological systems that serve multiple functions in human health and wellbeing. Currently half of Asia’s population is urban, and that figure is expected to rise to 66 percent by 2050. Since urban areas are often most vulnerable to hazards, the people living in them need good health infrastructure facilities and technological support at various scales. As such, the need of the hour is to enhance the adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, reduce vulnerability, and take risk mitigation measures in urban areas, which requires a systematic approach based on science–policy interface that is transformative, trans-disciplinary and integrative for a sustainable urban future. Global sustainable development goals are closely tied to urban human health and wellbeing: (1) the third of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is to “Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages” and (2) the eleventh is to “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. By addressing these goals, this book offers a highly useful resource for anyone concerned with healthy and resilient cities in Asia, today and tomorrow.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 459 p. 124 illus., 103 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9789811512056
    Series Statement: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1205-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1205-6
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    Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability (2022)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Integrated Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1-Environment, Society and Sustainability: A Human-Nature Interface -- 2-Social Welfare and Sustainable Development: Paradigm Shift -- 2-Ensuring Social Security for Child and the Elderly People -- 3-Geo-heritage and Geo-Ecotourism Conservation- Case Study -- 4-Resource Allocation and Sustainable Development -- 5-Welfare Schemes for Socially Vulnerable Segments -- 6-Population Growth, Poverty and Inequality -- 7-Illiteracy, Unemployment, Underemployment and Migration -- 8-Slums and Issues of Educational Sub-normality of Social Poor -- 9-Urbanization & Housing Affordability, Requirements of the Marginalized People -- 10-Gender Inequality, Women Health Issues and Women Empowerment -- 11-Climate Change and its Social Consequences and adaptation -- 12-Flood and its Impact on Human Livelihoods on Global South- Case study -- 13-Drought and its Associated Social Responses- Case study -- 14-Access to Basic Amenities, Healthcare Services and Mass Education -- 15-Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development, Industrialization as a Source of Employment -- 16-Protection of Civil Rights, Transgender Equality, Vocal for Local and Ecofeminism -- 17-Conclusion.
    Abstract: This volume discusses a broad range of human welfare problems associated with and stemming from social issues, natural resource deficiencies, environmental hazards, vulnerability to climate change, and sustainability challenges. The chapters form a framework centered around the concept of social morphology, i.e. the role of humans in shaping society, and associated human-nature interactions which inform the ability to achieve sustainable welfare and well-being. The book is divided in six sections. Section I contains the introductory chapters where the book explores shifting interfaces between environment, society, and sustainability outcomes. Section II discusses contemporary issues of social welfare, and covers sustainable in geo-heritage and ecotourism. Section III addresses the roots of various social conflicts and inequalities in relation to overpopulation, poverty, illiteracy, employment concerns, and human migration. Section IV highlights social security and areas of social deprivation, including urban affordability, gender equality, and women’s health. Section V covers social issues resulting from natural hazards and disasters. Section VI concludes the book with a discussion of the way forward for social sustainability. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, policy makers, environmentalists, NGOs, and social scientists.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIX, 739 p. 224 illus., 196 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030967604
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96760-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96760-4
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    Adolescent Mental Health in The Middle East and North Africa (2022)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Medical care. ; Human geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Health Care. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1-Adolescent Mental Health in the MENA Region and the link with Policy and Programming -- 2-There is no Health Without Mental Health: The Middle East and North Africa -- 3-A Silent Epidemic of Depression among Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Emerging Tribulation -- 4-Understanding mental illness stigma in Arab youths’ everyday lives -- 5-Developing and Implementing Youth Friendly Public Policies: A perspective into the Arab Region -- 6-Adolescent health in Saudi Arabia: Policy dimensions -- 7-Health Policies of Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How Do We Strategize in the Age COVID-19?.
    Abstract: 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. While there has been a surge in peer-reviewed research publications on population health in the MENA region in the last couple of decades, very few books offer a resource to address the diverse negative influences that disproportionately affect adolescents and children in the MENA region, including increased tobacco consumption culture, low emphasis on physical activity, increased sedentary behaviours, weak health policies, and societal issues related to displacement and political conflicts. These books offer a synthesis of current knowledge on adolescent health issues in the MENA region, and aim to provide evidence-informed adolescent health care practices that address current issues related to mental, physical, reproductive and nutritional health. Volume 1 focuses on mental health in the MENA region, the development and implementation of youth friendly public policies, and how to strategize in the age of COVID-19. The study will aid health care professionals, policy makers, government organizations and health program planners to assess current policies and practices related to adolescent health in the MENA region, and to identify the best courses of action moving forward. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 121 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030917906
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91790-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91790-6
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    Making Green Cities : Concepts, Challenges and Practice (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Sustainable architecture. ; Landscape architecture. ; Landscape ecology. ; Integrated Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. ; Landscape Architecture. ; Landscape Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Green City: General Concept -- Chapter 1. What Does “The Green City” Mean?(Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 2. What Is Urban Nature? (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 3. What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure? (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 4. The Green City: General Concept (Jürgen Breuste) -- Part II. The Nature Concept – of What Urban Green Nature Consists of Part Front Matter -- Chapter 5. The Four Urban Natures Approach (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 6. Urban Woodlands - Remnants of Pristine Landscape (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 7. Public Urban Parks - Designed Urban Green Spaces (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 8. Urban Gardens – The Private Urban Green (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 9. Urban Waters – The Urban Blue Infrastructure (Jürgen Breuste) -- Chapter 10. New Urban Wildernesses - Novel Urban Ecosystems (Jürgen Breuste).
    Abstract: This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live. People, planners, designers and politicians are working towards the development of green cities. Some cities are already promoted as green cities, while others are on their way to become one. But their goals are often unclear and can include different facets. Presenting contributions from world leading researchers in the field of urban ecology, the editors provide an interdisciplinary overview of best practices and challenges in creating green cities. They show examples of how to build up these cities from bits and pieces to districts and urban extensions. Each example concludes with a summary of the collected knowledge, the learning points and how this can be used in other places. The best practices are collected from around the world – Europe, America and Asia. Contributions cover a wide range of biophysical and cultural backgrounds within these three continents, including the Central, Southern and Eastern European region, as well as Latin and North America. The new dynamic urban development of Asia is illustrated by case studies from China and the Indian subcontinent. The reader will learn which role nature can play in green cities and what the basic requirements are in terms of culture, pre-existing nature conditions, existing urban surroundings, history, design and planning.
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    Pages: XX, 595 p. 201 illus., 171 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783030730895
    Series Statement: Cities and Nature,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73089-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73089-5
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    Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration : Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates (2023)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Urban policy. ; Environmental geography. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Integrated Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Framing living labs in large-scale social housing estates in Europe -- Part 1: A critical overview on urban living labs in large-scale social housing estates -- Beyond a buzzword: Situated participation through socially oriented urban living labs -- Governing with urban labs -- Urban living labs: Insights for institutionally promoted urban policies -- Part 2: Positioning research(ers) in large-scale social estates -- Beyond the presence: Dwelling with people and with their places -- 1,460 days of love and hate: An ethnographic account of a layered job -- The inside and outside of high-rise social housing: The broken institution -- From a community of practice to a community of planning: The case of the Sansheroes network in the San Siro neighbourhood in Milan -- Part 3: Approaching space in large–scale social housing estates -- Marginalization through mobility and porosity - How social housing dwellers see and live the city -- Peterbos: Living in the park, inhabiting the city -- Participation and the architect: Creative partnership or communication breakdown?- Confusing the spatial with the social: Can ethnography offer a way out?.
    Abstract: This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates all over Europe. Building on the results of the SoHoLab project (2017–2020), the book benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective, since the researchers involved belong to the fields of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, urban sociology. The project combined theoretical reflections with the installation and/or the consolidation of Urban Living Labs, run by universities, in large social housing estates in three European cities: Brussels, Milan and Paris.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 205 p. 15 illus., 13 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031197482
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19748-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19748-2
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    Governance of Climate Responsive Cities : Exploring Cross-Scale Dynamics (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Urban policy. ; Climatology. ; Integrated Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Climate Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Governance of climate responsive cities: Scale matters!- Resilience, uncertainty and adaptive planning -- Barriers to implementing local climate action plans in Turkey: Searching for a potential way-out -- Exploring the Governance of Naples, Italy, through a climate responsive approach -- Community engagement in climate change policy: The case of three mills, East London -- Co-design of a nature-based solutions ecosystem for reactivating a peri-urban district in Quito, Ecuador -- How co-design of public space contributes to strengthening resilience: Lessons from two Chilean cases -- In-formal green infrastructure (IGI) and the pursuit of climate responsive environments in Quito City -- Co-designing local climate action: A methodological framework from a democratic perspective.
    Abstract: The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales. It conceptualizes a framework of scale composed of three main categories including (i) scientific knowledge, (ii) plans and policies, and (iii) authorities of action. This framework presents ‘practice’ as the social context in which these three can interplay adaptively. Within this framework, the book presents case studies from Turkey, Italy, Ecuador, Chile and the UK, that reach meaningful planning and design solutions at national, city, and neighbourhood scales in the face of climate change. It offers implementation clues that are transferable to ever-increasing climate action around the globe. The book will be of interest to both professionals and scholars involved in urban design, urban planning and architecture, especially those in the field of climate responsive urbanism. It will also be a valuable resource for non-governmental organizations and social enterprises dealing with sustainability and climate change policies.
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    Pages: XIII, 164 p. 37 illus., 30 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030733995
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5
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    Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters : Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience of Societies (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Natural disasters. ; Human ecology Study and teaching. ; Architecture History. ; Cultural property. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Natural Hazards. ; Environmental Studies. ; Architectural History and Theory. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Social and Cultural Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Heritage and collective memory for resilience and reconstruction -- Thinking about post-disaster reconstruction in Europe: Functionalist and identity approaches -- Old Souks of Aleppo: A narrative approach to post-conflict heritage reconstruction -- Photography for the city, between the need for protection, conservation and civic identity -- Cultural heritage as stones of memory: The recovery of archives in the area of the Marche crater -- Intangible heritage and resilience in managing disaster shelters: Case study in Japan -- Water gives, water takes away. Memory, agency and resilience in ENSO-vulnerable historic landscapes in Peru -- Intangible cultural economy, a mould for tangible urban built fabric – The case of Shahjahanabad, India -- The Tree: The concept of place after the earthquake, L’Aquila -- Part II: Historic and contemporary reconstructions of historic cities -- Marsica: One hundred years on -- Coventry: Shell or Phoenix, city of tomorrow or concrete jumble? From reconstruction to the Phoenix Initiative, UK -- Post-trauma recovery of monumental buildings in Italy and the United States at the beginning of twentieth century -- Historical town centres and post-seismic reconstructions: Between functional recovery and heritage value awareness -- Integrating green solutions into post-earthquake recovery of Bam, Iran -- Reconstruction of heritage and spirit: Mending the scars of Aleppo -- Beyond the damage, the reconstruction of L’Aguila -- The “Solidere” effect and the localisation of heritage reconstruction in post-war transitions, Libya -- Bell towers under (seismic) attack: Saving a symbol, once it became a menace -- Ancient city of the future: Notes on the reconstruction of Beirut -- Part III: Society, governance and collective resilience -- Bonding between urban fabric and capacity of collective resilience: The case of Talca historic centre, Chile -- Multi-perspective pre-disaster examination as post-disaster managerial thinking ahead for Hoi An in Vietnam -- Play Street: Experimenting tactical urbanism for urban resilience in Iran -- The preservation of rural landscapes for building resilience in small towns: Insights from north Italy -- Antigua Guatemala, from history of disasters to resilient future -- Emergency management for the built heritage post-earthquake: Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, Italy -- Factors of educational poverty and resilience responses in L’Aquila’s young population -- Dropout, resilience and cultural heritage: A focus of the ACCESS Project in a highly fragile area -- How can teachers promote resilience in schools?- Part IV: Bringing the 21st century into reconstruction -- Cities in transformation: Smarter reconstruction in historic city centres -- Evaluating visitors’ experiences at St Augustine’s Abbey (Canterbury) -- Seismic Microzonation: A preventive measure for the conservation of the built heritage -- The representation of a resilient city: The case of Amatrice’s reconstruction -- Evacuation simulation considering tourists’ attempts to return home: A case of the Kiyomizu-dera Temple area, Japan -- Public administration versus social media in emergency situations -- Social media and disaster management in Iran: Lorestan floods as case study -- Environmental issues and energy potentials in post-earthquake reconstruction -- A multidisciplinary approach to retrofitting historic buildings: The case of the former San Salvatore Hospital, L’Aquila.
    Abstract: This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals. The book builds on carefully selected and updated papers accepted for the 2019 Silk Cities international conference on ‘reconstruction, recovery and resilience of historic cities and societies’, the third Silk Cities conference held in L’Aquila, Italy, 10-12 July 2019, working with University of L’Aquila and UCL. This multi-scale, and multidisciplinary book offers cross-sectoral and complimentary voices from multiple stakeholders, including academia, urban governance, NGOs and local populations. It examines post-disaster reconstruction strategies and case studies from Europe, Asia and Latin America that provide a valuable collection for anyone who would like to get a global overview on the subject matter. It thereby enables a deeper understanding of challenges, opportunities and approaches in dealing with historic cities facing disasters at various geographical scales. Additionally, it brings together historical approaches to the reconstruction of historical cities and those of more recent times. Thus, it can be used as a reference book for global understanding of the subject matter.
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    Pages: XVI, 666 p. 238 illus., 204 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030773564
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77356-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77356-4
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    Extreme Weather Events and Human Health : International Case Studies (2020)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Climatology. ; Environmental health. ; Human geography. ; Environmental management. ; Integrated Geography. ; Climate Sciences. ; Environmental Health. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: I. Introductory -- 1. Introduction: Extreme Weather and Human Health: Global Perspective -- 2. Dust Storms and Human Health -- 3. The Impacts of Climate Change on Health and Development in Canadian Arctic and Sub-Arctic Communities in the 21st Century: A Systematic Review -- 4. Wildland Fire, Extreme Weather, and Society: Implications of a History of Fire Suppression in California, USA -- 5. Extreme Weather Events, Health and Development.
    Abstract: This edited book assesses the impacts of various extreme weather events on human health and development from a global perspective, and includes several case studies in various geographical regions around the globe. Covering all continents, it describes the impact of extreme weather conditions such as flash floods, heatwaves, cold waves, droughts, forest fires, strong winds and storms in both developing and developed countries. The contributing authors also investigate the spread of diseases and the risk to food security caused by drought and flooding. Further, the book discusses the economic damage resulting from natural disasters including hurricanes. It has been estimated that in 2017 natural disasters and climate change resulted in economic losses of 309 billion US dollars. Scientists also predict that if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, in Europe the death toll due to weather disasters could rise 50-fold by the end of the 21st century, with extreme heat alone causing more than 150,000 deaths a year, as the report on global warming of 1.5°C warns that China, Russia and Canada’s current climate policies would steer the world above a catastrophic 5°C of warming by the end of 2100. As such, the book highlights how the wellbeing of different populations is threatened by extreme events now and in the foreseeable future.
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    Pages: XVIII, 382 p. 83 illus., 70 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030237738
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23773-8
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    Spatial Mapping and Modelling for Kala-azar Disease (2020)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Diseases. ; Medical informatics. ; Geographic information systems. ; Integrated Geography. ; Diseases. ; Health Informatics. ; Geographical Information System.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Introduction of Kala -- azar. Chapter 2 -- Role of Geoinformatics of Kala -- azar Disease Assessment. Chapter 3 -- Micro -- geographical factors of Kala -- azar. Chapter 4 -- Open Source GIS and Kala -- azar Transmission. Chapter 5 -- Vector Ecology of Kala -- azar Transmission. Chapter 6 -- Disease Ecology and Transmission. Chapter 7 -- Appraisal of existing measure and future control strategy for Kala-azar.
    Abstract: This book addresses the current challenges in controlling Kala-azar disease (Visceral leishmaniasis) in India and other VL-endemic areas, and aims to develop and apply a geo-environmental risk model based on primary and secondary data with the aid of remote sensing and GIS technologies to assess and mitigate Kala-azar transmission. Through case studies carried out in India, the book provides insight into the relationship between geo-environmental variables and encroachments of Kala-azar, and identifies potential pathways for VL introduction to develop mitigation strategies using GIS and remote sensing technologies. The book critically assesses existing VL mitigation measures that do not adequately account for geo-environmental conditions, and analyzes the environmental factors that aid Kala-azar transmission using remote sensing, spatial statistics and data mining techniques. The book will be of interest to epidemiologists, researchers and practitioners using geospatial data practices to study disease transmission and associated monitoring technologies. .
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    Pages: XVI, 142 p. 54 illus., 41 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030412272
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Medical Earth Sciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41227-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41227-2
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    Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society : Recent Social Security Reform in Japan (2021)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Social service. ; Geography. ; Social medicine. ; Political science. ; Human Geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Social Care. ; Regional Geography. ; Health, Medicine and Society. ; Governance and Government.
    Description / Table of Contents: Welfare Regime in Japan and Recent Social Security Reform -- Temporal Changes and Regional Differences in Demographic Structure and Health in Japan -- Nursing Care Provision Systems for Elderly People and Geographical Distribution of Services in Japan -- Medical Care Provision System and Geographical Distribution of Medical Resources in Japan -- Securing of Health, Medical, and Welfare Personnel and the Geographical Distribution in Japan -- Regional Variation in the Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Japan -- Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having One Comprehensive Community Support Center -- Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having Sub-branchs of Comprehensive Community Support Centers -- Community-based Integrated Care Systems in Municipalities Having Multiple Comprehensive Community Support Centers -- Regeneration of Housing Estates by the Community-based Integrated Care Systems -- Integrated Care Systems Established to Strengthen Community Disaster Resilience -- Establishing Community-based Integrated Sup-port Systems for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childcare in Japan: Focusing on Regional differences -- Creation of Social Ties for Prevention of Isolation of Elderly Public Assistance Recipients: The Case of a Project for the Provision of “A Place of One’s Own” in Nishinari Ward, Osaka City -- Current Situation and Challenges of “Inclusive Care”: An Investigation of the “Community-based Inclusive Station Program” in Saga Prefecture -- Formation of Comprehensive Community Welfare Bases in Urban Areas -- Development of Community Welfare Activities with Resident Participation and Their Importance in Hilly and Mountainous Areas. .
    Abstract: This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan, and (III) A Prospect of Community-Based Inclusive Society in Japan. The chapters in this book were composed on the basis of research into community-based integrated care systems and community-based inclusive society, conducted by members of the Association of Japanese Geographers’ Study Group “Regional Issues Related to the Birthrate Decline and Population Aging.” Choosing local governments with different regional characteristics, the authors conducted empirical research to uncover the characteristics of comprehensive community support systems, building processes, and challenges in the respective local governments. Non-Japanese readers will acquire an understanding of the characteristics of social security and the trends of the reforms in Japan. To support its use as a reference book, chapters in Part I include numerous maps and figures with the themes of welfare, medical care, and health levels in Japan.
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    Pages: XIV, 376 p. 150 illus., 11 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9789813344730
    Series Statement: International Perspectives in Geography, AJG Library, 12
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4473-0
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    Theory of Mountainurbanology (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Geography. ; Environmental management. ; Landscape ecology. ; Architecture. ; Integrated Geography. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Management. ; Landscape Ecology. ; Architecture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Investigation -- Chapter 3. Site Selection -- Chapter 4. Category -- Chapter 5. Planning -- Chapter 6. Design -- Chapter 7. Building -- Chapter 8. Transportation -- Chapter 9. Ecology -- Chapter 10. Disaster -- Chapter 11. Aesthetics -- Chapter 12. Governance.
    Abstract: This book is about mountainurbanology grounded in Southwest China, where mountain is a typical landform for many towns and cities. From the multi-disciplinary perspective in a dynamic changing context, it presents a comprehensive framework including the location of mountain city, planning, design, building, transportation, disaster, aesthetics and governance in building up mountain cities based on investigation of natural, social and economic studies. The book also emphasizes ecological planning method based on topography in mountainous area through the lens of teaching and practice on urban planning for over half a century in Southwest China. It is a highly informative book providing academic insight for senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers, research professionals and decision makers with an interest in urban planning, ecology, planning and design in mountainous region development. Prof. Guangyu Huang is regarded as Founding Pioneer of mountainurbanology in China, a sub-discipline of urban planning.
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    Pages: XXXIII, 269 p. 186 illus., 102 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9789811608193
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0819-3
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    Representation, Re-Presentation, and Resistance : Participatory Geographies of Place, Health, and Embodiment (2022)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Human geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Social policy. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Human Geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Social Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Refining and (Re)Defining “Place” in Health Research: Interrogating Spatial Knowledges + (Mis)Representations -- Chapter 2. Spatial Knowledge, Representation, + Place-Health Narratives: Youth Photovoice Perspectives on a “Food Desert” -- Chapter 3. Placescapes + Public Housing: Towards a Critical Understanding of ‘Place’ + ‘Placemaking’ in Place-Based Health & Housing Strategies -- Chapter 4. The Real Limits of Imaginary Lines: A Participatory Activity Space Method for Exploring Intergenerational (Dis)Connections Between ‘Place’ and Health -- Chapter 5. Place, Health, and the Geography of Embodiment: Intergenerational Participatory Research for Representation/as Resistance in The Ville -- Chapter 6. Towards Decolonizing Place-Health Research: Placemaking, Power, and the Production of “Place”-Health Knowledge.
    Abstract: This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice. The book includes practice- and research-based projects with implications and applications for practitioners (e.g. local health department epidemiologists) and academics, introducing readers to an array of new and mixed-methods within place-health research. It also introduces new conceptual and analytical place-health frameworks that more explicitly account for power—both within place making, unmaking, and remaking processes, and within the (re)production of place-health knowledges. Across six chapters, the author reports and reflects on a selection of research projects, raising key considerations in regard to place-health (mis)representation, and highlighting the value of participatory methods and processes in re-presenting—and decolonizing—spatial narratives of health. This includes an emphasis on the integration of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles with the technological and procedural affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs). With each chapter drawing from CBPR, decolonizing, social epidemiology, health geography, Black feminist, and critical theory orientations, the book offers an integrated call and framing for a critical examination of how geographies of “place” and health—and narratives/stories therein—are constructed, and perhaps might be de/re-constructed through inclusive and equitable research practices that center community and offer a mode of resistance for the production of place-health counternarratives. The book is intended for academic researchers and practitioners in public health and health geography fields, particularly those whose work engages social epidemiology, urban planning, and aspects of community development, and will also appeal to researchers and practitioners who use participatory, community-inclusive methods and processes in their work, especially as related to community mapping.
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    Pages: XXII, 140 p. 41 illus., 34 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031061417
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06141-7
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    Sustainable Agriculture : Technical Progressions and Transitions (2022)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Agriculture. ; Environmental management. ; Food security. ; Environmental geography. ; Sustainability. ; Agriculture. ; Environmental Management. ; Food Security. ; Integrated Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Understanding Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter2. Biofertilizers: Role in Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter3. Organic Farming for Sustainable Soil Use, Management, Food Production -- Chapter4. Role of Plant Extracts in Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter5. Botanical Pesticides for an eco-friendly and Sustainable Agriculture: New challenges and prospects -- Chapter6. Role of plant mediated bio- synthesised nanoparticles in agriculture -- Chapter7. Role of Green synthesised Zinc oxide nanoparticles in Agriculture -- Chapter8. Biochar: A gamechanger for sustainable agriculture -- Chapter9. Production of Biochar using Top Lit Up Draft and its application in Horticulture -- Chapter10. Use of genomics and precise breeding to genetically improve the traits of agriculturally important organisms -- Chapter11. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Strategies to improve heavy metal stress under sustainable agriculture -- Chapter12. Exploring the phytoremediation potential of macrophytes for treating sewage effluent through Constructed Wetland Technology (CWT) for sustainable agriculture -- Chapter13. Satellite-Based Soil Erosion Mapping. .
    Abstract: This book discusses a number of recent technological and methodological progressions in achieving sustainable agriculture. It covers innovative and economically viable techniques for growers, laborers, consumers, policymakers, and others working to develop food-secure and ecologically sound agricultural practices to benefit humans and the environment. The key topics addressed include the increasing role of biofertilizers in sustainable agriculture, green synthesized nanoparticles for higher crop production rates, eco-friendly plant-based pesticides as alternatives to synthetic/chemical pesticides, use of genomics for improved plant breeding practices, and the use of biochar to increase the water-holding capacity in soil. The book concludes with an overview of satellite-based soil erosion practices to monitor and control the harmful impacts of land degradation, and a discussion of long-term strategies to reduce crop losses due to pest and insecticide damage. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of environmental science, agriculture science, agronomy, and sustainable development. .
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    Pages: IX, 260 p. 33 illus., 30 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030830663
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83066-3
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    Green Village and Town Construction in China (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Sustainability. ; Architecture. ; Sustainable architecture. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Integrated Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Cities, Countries, Regions. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Theory and Development of Green Village and Town Construction -- Theory and Innovation of Green Construction of Village and Town -- Evolution and Development of Green Construction of Village and Town -- Pattern and Mechanism of Green Construction of Village and Town -- Green Construction Community of Village and Town -- Part II. Plan and Construction Methods of Green Village and Town -- Plan Compilation of Green Construction of Village and Town -- Green Construction of Environmental Infrastructure of Village and Town -- Construction and Renovation of Green Building in Village and Town -- Part III. Evaluation of Plan and Construction of Green Village and Town -- Evaluation of Green Village and Town Plan -- Evaluation of Environmental Infrastructure Construction of Green Village and Town -- Evaluation of Green Building Construction of Village and Town -- Comprehensive Evaluation of Plan and Construction of Green Village and Town -- Appendix. .
    Abstract: By means of multidisciplinary research on urban and rural planning, construction engineering, environmental engineering and engineering sociology, this book conducts pioneering research on the construction theory, construction methods, evaluation technology and application of demonstration projects in China’s green villages and towns. The book is divided into three parts and eleven chapters. Part I is about the theory and development of green village and town construction, including the theory and innovation, the evolution and development, the patterns and mechanisms, and the community of green village and town construction. Part II is about the planning and construction methods of green villages and towns, including the plan compilation, the environmental infrastructure construction, and the construction and renovation of green buildings in villages and towns. Part III is about the evaluation of the planning and construction of green villages and towns, including the evaluation of plans, the evaluation of environmental infrastructure construction, the evaluation of green building construction, and the comprehensive evaluation of the planning and construction of green villages and towns. Today, 564 million farmers live in 28,500 towns and 2.452 million villages in China. In 2018 alone, 820 million m2 of new houses were built in rural areas. This proves that China’s green village and town construction has great significance and can provide enlightenment to developing countries and even to the world. The book describes new theories, new perspectives and new methods of green village and town sustainable construction in China for overseas experts and readers. .
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    Pages: XXII, 466 p. 109 illus., 69 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9789811620980
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2098-0
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    Health Geography in Sub-Saharan Africa : Development-Health Nexus (2023)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Public health. ; Social medicine. ; Internal medicine. ; Economic development. ; Integrated Geography. ; Water. ; Public Health. ; Medical Sociology. ; Internal Medicine. ; Development Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Inequities and inequalities in access to care. Chapter 2 -- Gender and health. Chapter 3 -- Disability and health. Chapter 4 -- Food security. Chapter 5 -- Water and sanitation. Chapter 6 -- Mining and health. Chapter 7 -- Climate change and health. Chapter 8 -- Ageing and health. Chapter 9 -- Non-communicable diseases. Chapter 10 -- Infectious diseases. Chapter 11 -- Social interventions and health. Chapter 12 -- Environmental intervention and health. .
    Abstract: This volume creates a platform to showcase health geography research from countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and draws on theoretical and methodological innovations to initiate a discussion on the complexities of the issues impacting health in the region. Through theoretically and empirically grounded contributions from a variety of researchers working across SSA, the book addresses a wide range of topics that are usually treated separately when discussing health geography in the region. By bridging the social science and health disciplines, the book introduces new ways of thinking temporally and spatially about these topics in non-geography contexts as well. In 4 sections, the text will broadly appeal to students, researchers, teachers, policy makers, and global health professionals. Section 1 addresses the social determinants of health, including gender, disability, and other inequities and inequalities associated with healthcare access. Section 2 discusses the environmental determinants of health such as food security, water and sanitation, mining, and climate change. Section 3 focuses on current and emerging challenges to health in SSA, including ageing, non-communicable disease, and infectious diseases. Section 4 concludes the text by discussing the need to develop social and environmental intervention policies and strategies to address health challenges in SSA.
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    Pages: XIII, 204 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031375651
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37565-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37565-1
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    Smart and Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Challenges and Solutions : Proceedings of Smart and Sustainable Cities 2022 (2023)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Human geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Urban policy. ; Sustainability. ; Urban Ecology. ; Human Geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Urban Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Hydrocarbon Content and Enzymatic Activity of Urban Soils in Kola Subarctic -- Acute and Chronic Phytotoxicity of Subarctic Urban Soils and Industrial Wastes -- The Ecotoxicological State of Urban Soils of the Saint-Petersburg City -- Assessment of Soil Quality in Urban Green Areas of Two Russian Cities by Means of Chemical and Biological Methods -- Assessment of Urban Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals (Russian Federation, Republic of Bashkortostan) -- Distribution of Microelements in the Mineral Part of Chernozems under Different Types of Plant Communities in the Rostov Agglomeration -- Seasonal Dynamics of Mobile Phosphorus and Potassium in Podzol Soils Within Slope Catena of Different Anthropogenic Load at the RSAU-MTAA Forest Experimental Station -- Grazing Effect on Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Soils of the Mountainous Pastures -- Ecosystem Services and Ecological State of Postpyrogenic Soils in Urban Forest Environments -- The Dynamics Peculiarities of the Xylem Sap of Coniferous Woody Plants on the Example of Picea Abies in Rostov-on-Don -- Daily and Seasonal Dynamics of Mixed Forest Biodiversity in the Moscow Region According to Acoustic Monitoring Data -- A Tremendous Green Roof or Biodiversity Museum? First Outcomes from Soil Survey in Zaryadye Park. .
    Abstract: This book provides multidisciplinary approaches to smart and sustainable urban ecosystems. Urbanization is a global tendency, and up to 70% of the world population is projected to live in cities by 2050. How will this rapid urbanization alter the face of the world? What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What are smart solutions to make life in cities safe, comfortable, and environmentally friendly? These and other important questions are addressed by the conference Smart and Sustainable Cities (SSC). This year’s theme for the conference will be « Sustainable urban ecosystems: challenges and solutions». Megapolises are complex ecosystems. Air and water quality, vegetation, and soils in megapolises are exposed to anthropogenic influence. Studying negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures is among the key tasks of urban ecology and environmental impact assessment. Advanced approaches and smart technologies to monitor, model, and assess environmental consequences and risks in megapolises will be widely discussed at the conference. Searching for solutions of the environmental problems of modern megapolises will be the key point of the conference. Successful experiences of sustainable urban development and nature-based solutions to support climate adaptation, carbon neutrality, and human health will be presented in the conference proceedings.
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    Pages: XIII, 316 p. 103 illus., 94 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031372162
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37216-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37216-2
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    COVID-19 and Similar Futures : Pandemic Geographies (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Environmental geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Public health. ; Immunology. ; Virology. ; Geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Epidemiology. ; Public Health. ; Immunology. ; Virology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Spatial Epidemiology: Challenges and Methods in COVID-19 Research -- Chapter 3. Disease Ecology -- Chapter 4. COVID-19 and the Political Ecology of Global Food and Health Systems -- Chapter 5. Setting a Death Trap: International Political Economy, COVID-19 Responses, and the Plight of Central American Migrants -- Chapter 6. Emergent Global Pandemic Risks, Complex Systems, and Population Health -- Chapter 7. Eight Centuries of Epidemic and Pandemic Control -- Chapter 8. Humanism and Social Constructionism -- Chapter 9. Mapping the Post-Structural Geographies of COVID-19 -- Chapter 10. Non-Representational Approaches to COVID-19 -- Chapter 11. How to Have Theory in a Pandemic: A Critical Reflection on the Discourses of COVID-19 -- Chapter 12. Health Service Capacities, Responses, and Practice -- Chapter 13. Informal Care: The Forgotten Frontlines of COVID-19 -- Chapter 14. Resilience, Risk, and Policymaking -- Chapter 15. Managing Internationally Mobile Bodies in a World on Hold: Migration, Tourism, and Biological Citizenship in the Context of COVID-19 -- Chapter 16. Mobility is Dead: Post-pandemic Planning as an Opportunity to Prioritize Sustainability and Accessibility -- Chapter 17. Media and Information in Times of Crisis: The Case of the COVID-19 Infodemic -- Chapter 18. The (Social Distanced) Circle of Family, Friends, and Allies: How COVID-19 is Re-shaping Social Capital and New Opportunities for Research -- Chapter 19. The Syndemic Pandemic: COVID-19 and Social Inequality -- Chapter 20. Maintaining Wellbeing During and After COVID-19 -- Chapter 21. Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity -- Chapter 22. Surveillance, Control, and Containment (Biopolitics) -- Chapter 23. Contradictory and Compounding: The Social Implications of COVID-19 -- Chapter 24. Geographical Metaphors in Everyday Life -- Chapter 25. Vaccine Geopolitics During COVID-19: How Pandemics Thicken Borders, Exacerbate Violence, and Deepen Existing Fault Lines -- Chapter 26. Geographies of Digital Storytelling: Care and Harm in a Pandemic -- Chapter 27. Animal Geographies in a Pandemic -- Chapter 28. Environment and COVID-19: Unpacking the Links -- Chapter 29. Home in the Context of COVID-19 -- Chapter 30. Death, Devastation, and Failure in Long-term care: The Need for a Geographical Re-engagement with the Sector -- Chapter 31. Re-figuring Public Spaces? -- Chapter 32. Consumer Spaces -- Chapter 33. The Place, Labour, and Networks of Transportation during COVID-19 -- Chapter 34. COVID-19: Pandemic on an Urban Planet -- Chapter 35. Geographies of the Rural and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 36. Global Spaces: COVID-19 and the Reconfiguring of Global Health -- Chapter 37. Why Green and Blue Spaces Matter More than Ever -- Chapter 38. COVID-19 in the Developing World: Curse or Blessing? -- Chapter 39. Art Spaces -- Chapter 40. Practicing Self-determination to Protect Indigenous Health in COVID-19: Lessons for this Pandemic and Similar Futures -- Chapter 41. #thenewnormal and the Pathological: Rethinking Human-Virus Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 42. Older People -- Chapter 43. Children and Families -- Chapter 44. Race, Ethnicity, and COVID-19: The Persistence of Black-White Disparities in the United States -- Chapter 45. Understanding the Importance of Gender for COVID-19 -- Chapter 46. People with Disabilities -- Chapter 47. Participatory Research by/for the Precariously Housed in a time of COVID-19 -- Chapter 48. Mental-ill Health and Anxious Pandemic Geographies -- Chapter 49. COVID-19 and Health Professionals: Recommitting to a Global Health Agenda -- Chapter 50. Labor Geography, Racial Capitalism, and the Pandemic Portal -- Chapter 51. Geographies of (Domestic) Alcohol Consumption -- Chapter 52. Public Geographies in a Post-COVID-19 World -- Chapter 53. Textures of an Epidemic: On the Necessity of Qualitative Methods in Making Better Pandemic Futures -- Chapter 54. Counting COVID: quantitative geographical approaches to COVID-19 -- Chapter 55.GIS and Spatial Representations: Challenges and Missteps -- Chapter 56. New Forms of Data, New Forms of Opportunities to Monitor and Tackle a Pandemic -- Chapter 57. Knowledge Translation and COVID-19 -- Chapter 58. Examining Geographical Visualizations of COVID-19.
    Abstract: This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to this specific event, but to others like it that might occur in future. Comprised of almost 60 short (2500 word) easy to read chapters, the collection provides numerous theoretical, empirical and methodological entry points to understanding the ways in which space, place and other geographical phenomenon are implicated in the crisis. Although falling under a health geography book series, the book explores the centrality and importance of a full range of biological, material, social, cultural, economic, urban, rural and other geographies. Hence the book bridges fields of study and sub-disciplines that are often regarded as separate worlds, demonstrating the potential for future collaboration and cross-disciplinary inquiry. Indeed book articulates a diverse but ultimately fulsome and multiscalar geographical approach to the major health challenge of our time, bringing different types of scholarship together with common purpose. The intended audience ranges from senior undergraduate students and graduate students to professional academics in geography and a host of related disciplines. These scholars might be interested in COVID-19 specifically or in the book’s broad disciplinary approach to infectious disease more generally. The book will also be helpful to policy-makers at various levels in formulating responses, and to general readers interested in learning about the COVID-19 crisis.
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    Pages: XIV, 448 p. 27 illus., 22 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030701796
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6
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    Services for Aging Persons in China : Spatial Variations in Supply and Demand (2022)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Economic development. ; Human geography. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Biometry. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Development Studies. ; Human Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Biostatistics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: History and Context -- Chapter 2: China's population aging and regional variation -- Chapter 3: Government policies and programs for elderly services: a historical review -- Part 2: Spatial analysis of supply and demand of services for aging persons -- Chapter 4: Living facilities for aging persons -- Chapter 5: Meal services for aging persons -- Chapter 6: Health services -- Part 3: Regional and local case studies -- Chapter 7: Community Services for Aging Person -- Chapter 8: Regional cooperation for nursing home facilities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
    Abstract: This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems. In three parts, the manuscript combines case-oriented comparative methods with variable-oriented statistical and GIS analyses to examine the spatial patterns and relationships between supply and demand of affordable and accessible services for aging persons in China. Part one gives a historical review of population aging in China, including the development of services for aging persons and government policies and programs geared towards elders. Part two provides an analysis of spatial variations of supply and demand for services including food, housing, health, and community services for aging persons. Part three uses case studies to analyse the regional and local dimensions of elderly services. Suggestions are made for future planning, development, and policies. This book will appeal to policy makers, city planners, service providing businesses, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying economic geography, planning, and regional development.
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    Pages: XVIII, 150 p. 38 illus., 37 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030980320
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98032-0
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    Marine Climate of Russian Coastal Territories : Public Health Aspects of Biological Adaption (2023)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Public health. ; Climatology. ; Integrated Geography. ; Public Health. ; Climate Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Climate and weather: impact on the body -- Chapter 3: Climatic norms, definition periods. Methods for determining the areas of biological comfort/discomfort -- Chapter 4: Adaptation to marine climate -- Chapter 5: Influence of weather and climatic conditions on health Adaptation to the marine climate of Russian regions -- Chapter 6: Non-specific prevention of pre-disease states and diseases when adapting to a maritime climate -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: The monograph was written based on the material of the post-doctoral thesis prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rakhmanov and it has been translated from its original version in Russian. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the process of biological adaptation and adaptation capacity of the population to the marine climate of Russia’s North, the Black and Caspian Sea regions and the Baltic Sea coast. The authors explore different biological reactions to adaptation and offer their classification depending on the type of climate. Special attention is given to the prevention of prenosological conditions and diseases typical of coastal areas. Evidence suggests that the human body has a remarkable capacity to adapt to a range of climatic and weather conditions through a variety of targeted adaptation measures.
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    Pages: IX, 112 p. 34 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031309519
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30951-9
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    Sustainable Development Goals in Europe : A Geographical Approach (2023)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Environmental geography. ; Physical geography. ; Human geography. ; Bioclimatology. ; Climatology. ; Sustainability. ; Integrated Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Climate Change Ecology. ; Climate Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere -- SDG1 in Europe: Micro-grants, poverty, and the big-picture future of sustainable development in a post-pandemic world -- Part 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture -- Geography: Origin of the complexity of the food system -- Part 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages -- Exploring health and well-being in a European context -- Part 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all -- New horizons for quality education within the framework of the 2030 agenda -- Part 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls -- Recent demographic trends in Spanish rural areas: Poverty and inequality with gender perspective (1999-2020) -- Part 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all -- Sustainable solution for clean water (SDG6) implemented in Ethiopia to remove fluoride from drinking water using natural zeolites from Europe -- Part 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all -- Improving eco-social literacy using Spanish media coverage of the EU's clean energy strategy -- Part 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all -- “Economics for Future” from different perspectives – Critical reflections on SDG 8 with a special focus on economic growth and some suggestions for alternatives pathways -- Part 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation -- Perceived benefits and barriers to cooperation between small farms and clusters – A case study of Poland -- Part 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries -- Spatial disparities: An approach to reveal "hidden areas" to territorial development in the Marrakech-Safi region -Morocco -- Part 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable -- Sustainable cities, urban indicators and planning for the new urban agenda. Sustainable developments goals and the rights to the city -- Part 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns -- Towards a new sustainable production and responsible consumer in the food sectors: Sustainable aquaculture -- Part 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts -- 1975-2018: 43 years of glacial retreat in the Incachiriasca glacier (Nevado Salcantay, Vilcabamba Range, Peru) -- Part 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development -- Jellyfish distribution and abundance on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula -- Part 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss -- Using the European CORINE land cover database: A review a 2011-2021 specific review -- Part 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels -- Achieving a sustainable future: The geographical centrality of UN SDG-16, peace, justice and strong institutions -- Part 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development -- Revitalizing the global alliances for sustainable development; analysing the viability of SDG 17 using marine conservation case studies in Europe.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Although the world is strongly interconnected, the majority of the chapters in this volume focus on Europe or the work of European researchers. Each chapter of this book focusses on one of the 17 SDG’s providing in-depth knowledge from a geographical perspective, fostering comprehensive research on these global targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change. The Sustainable Development Goals are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To achieve them, it will be necessary for all stakeholders, including citizens (civil society, doctors, teachers), governments, private sector to collaborate.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031216145
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21614-5
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    Practical Applications of Medical Geology (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Geology. ; Biogeography. ; Medical sciences. ; Energy harvesting. ; Radiation dosimetry. ; Integrated Geography. ; Geology. ; Biogeosciences. ; Health Sciences. ; Energy Harvesting. ; Radiation Dosimetry and Protection .
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. 1A. Geoscience methods in medical geology -- 1A2. Evaluating geoavailability -- 1A3. Isotope techniques used in biomedical studies -- 1B. Biomedical methods in medical geology -- 1B1. Exposure assessment -- 1B2. Bioaccessibility and bioavailability -- 1B3. Toxicology: basic toxicology methods and principles -- 1B4-Medical diagnosis -- 1C.Data sources in medical geology -- 1C1. Geoscience databases describing occurrence of key pollutants -- 1C2. Spatial analysis and GIS methods -- 1C3. Health databases -- 2. 2A. Medical geology of geologic materials -- 2A1. Medical geology of water -- 2A2. Medical geology of soil -- 2A3. Medical geology of dust -- 2A4. Medical geology of ore mining -- 2A5. Health impacts of asbestos -- 2A6. Volcanic emissions -- 2B. Medical geology of energy use -- 2B1. Coal -- 2B2. Fracking and other unconventional oil and gas -- 2B3. Radioactivity -- 2C. Impacts -- 2C1. Impacts of geology on animal health -- 2C2. Occupational issues -- 2C3. Essential element deficiencies -- 2C4. Environmental justice -- 2C5. Benefits -- 2C6. Urban medical geology/legacy of natural disasters -- 2C7. Medical geology of indigenous people -- 2C8. Climate change and medical geology -- 3. Case Studies [TBD] .
    Abstract: This edited volume provides a framework for integrating methods and information drawn from geological and medical sciences and provides case studies in medical geology to illustrate the usefulness of this framework for crafting environmental and public health policies related to natural materials. The relevance of medical geology research to policy decisions is a topic rarely discussed, and this volume attempts to be a unique source for researchers and policy makers in the field of medical geology in addressing this gap in practical medical geology applications. The book's four sections establish this framework in detail using risk assessment, case studies, data analyses and specific medical geology techniques. Following an introduction to medical geology in the context of risk assessment and risk management, the second section discusses specific methods used in medical geology in the categories of geoscience, biomedicine, and data sources. The third section discusses the medical geology of natural materials, energy use, and environmental and workplace impacts. This section includes specific case studies in medical geology, and describes how the methods and data from the previous section are used in a medical geology analysis. The fourth section includes a guide to the medical geology literature and provides some examples of medical geology programs in Asia and Africa.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030538934
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53893-4
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    Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development (2022)
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Agricultural ecology. ; Environmental policy. ; Environmental geography. ; Food security. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Agroecology. ; Environmental Policy. ; Integrated Geography. ; Food Security.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction: Thinking about seeds -- 2 Reclaiming diverse seed commons through food sovereignty, agroecology and economies of care -- 3 Integration of endogenous development theory into the study of seed governance -- 4 Indigenous seed systems, biocultural heritage: the Andean Potato Park’s approach to seed governance -- 5 The diversity of seed-saving governance and sharing systems in contemporary Japan -- 6 Seed system dynamics and crop diversity of Chinbaung in Myanmar -- 7 Organizations and functions for seed management in East Asia: Korea, Japan and Taiwan -- 8 Evolutionary populations for sustainable food security and food sovereignty -- 9 Adding value to a Scottish rye landrace: collaborative research into new artisanal products -- 10 Inside the Japanese seed industry: its characteristics and implications for agroecology -- 11 Bhutan’s ‘middle way’: diversification, mainstreaming, commodification and impacts in the context of food security -- 12 The third way of seed governance: the potential of the seed commoning in Japan -- 13 Agroecology, sovereignty and the endogenous development perspective in seed governance and management.
    Abstract: This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional vs modern, subsistence vs commercial, or local vs global. While reflecting on the expanding oligopoly in the current seed system, the authors argue that such classifications limit our ability to critically reflect on and acknowledge the diverse approaches through which seed governance is practiced around the world, at various scales, creating a mosaic of dynamic complementarities and autonomies. The authors also highlight the importance of this much needed dialogue through case studies of seed governance approaches and practices found in and around Japan. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030894054
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4
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    The Ganges : Cultural, Economic and Environmental Significance (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Economic geography. ; Geography. ; Physical geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Water. ; Regional Cultural Studies. ; Economic Geography. ; Regional Geography. ; Physical Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The Ganga Basin -- Geography of the Ganga Basin -- The Ganga and its Tributaries -- The Ganga between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi -- The Major Cultural Towns -- Major Fairs and Festivals -- Economic Significance of the Ganga -- Environmental Issues in the Ganga Basin -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: ‘The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance’ is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River. The Ganga River originates from Gaumukh- situated in the high Himalaya, flows through the world’s biggest fertile alluvial plain, and inlets into the Bay of Bengal at Ganga Sagar. It makes a unique natural and cultural landscape and is believed to be the holiest river of India. The Hindus called it ‘Mother Ganga’ and worship it. The towns/cities, situated on its bank, are world-famous and are known as the highland and valley pilgrimages. The water of the Ganga is pious, and the Hindus use it on different occasions while performing the rituals and customs. This book is unique because no previous study which presents a complete and comprehensive geographical description of the Ganga has been composed. This book presents the historical and cultural significance of the Ganga and its tributaries. Empirical, archival, and observation methods were applied to conduct this study. There are a total of 10 chapters in this book such as ‘Introduction’, ‘the Ganga Basin’, ‘Geography of the Ganga Basin’, ‘the Ganges System: Ganga and its Tributaries’, ‘Ganga between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi’, ‘the Major Cultural Towns’, ‘Major Fairs and Festivals’, ‘Economic Significance of the Ganga’, ‘Environmental Issues’, and ‘Conclusions’. The contents of the book are enriched by 89 figures, 15 tables, and substantial citations and references. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030791179
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79117-9
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    The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies : Applied Ontology of Geography (2021)
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Human geography. ; Integrated Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. The Ontological Background -- Ontologies in Computer Science: a brief overview -- From the Ontological Turn to the Ontology of Geography -- Common Sense Conceptualizations and Systems of Objects -- Part II. Geographical Entities, Boundaries and Spatial Representation -- Experiments and Results -- From a Speculative Perspective: Geographic Entities and Boundaries -- On Drawing (Different) Lines on a Map -- On the Ontological Status of Geographical Boundaries -- Spatial Representation and Ontological Tools -- Part III. From a Geographical Perspective: Spatial Turn, Taxonomies and Geo-Ontologies -- From the Spatial Turn to the Diffusion of Geo-ontologies -- The Problems of Existing Taxonomies -- A Geo-ontological Tri-Partition -- PART IV. Geo-ontologies, Digital Humanities and Ancient World -- Towards a Geo-ontology for the Ancient World -- Geography in Greek and Roman Culture -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: Placed at the intersection among philosophy, geography, and computer science, the domain of investigation of applied ontology of geography ranges from making explicit assumptions and commitments of geography as a discipline, to the theoretical and technical needs of geographical/IT tools, such as GIS and geo-ontologies. Such a domain of investigation represents the central topic of discussion of this book, which intends: 1) to provide an overview of the mutual interactions among the disciplines encompassed in the domain; 2) to discuss notions such as spatial representation, boundaries, and geographical entities that constitute the main focus of the (philosophical) ontology of geography; 3) to propose a geographical classification of geo-ontologies in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, as well as to show what ontological categories best systematize their contents. The second edition of the book differs from the first one as it offers a broader analysis of the (philosophical) ontology of geography: an analysis that is no more limited to the theoretical need of geo-ontologies.
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    Edition: 2nd ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030781453
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78145-3
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    Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa : A Critical Perspective (2022)
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Environmental geography. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Environmental management. ; Renewable energy sources. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Integrated Geography. ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management. ; Environmental Management. ; Renewable Energy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Justice and Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa: Trends, Narratives and Contestations -- Part I History and Politics of Off-grid Solar Electrification -- Chapter 2 : Off-Grid Enterprise: A Critical History of Small-Scale Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3: At the Margins of the Grid: The Politics of Off-Grid Electrification in Senegal -- Chapter 4: Decade of Change: Off-Grid Solar Energy in Rwanda -- Part II Manifestations of energy injustices -- Chapter 5: The dark side of the sun: Solar home systems and their injustices in Africa -- Chapter 6 : Framing Energy Justice: Perspectives from Malawi’s Off-Grid Solar Market -- Chapter 7: Gender Differentiation, Equality and Equity in Off-Grid Solar Usage in Rural Tanzania: A Fraying Thread? -- Chapter 8 ; On-Grid and Off-Grid Electrification in Kenya: Who are left Behind and Why? -- Part III Enabling uptake: Constraints and Opportunities -- Chapter 9: Solar Home Systems in Rural landscapes: Examining the Forces Shaping Solar Home Systems Adoption in Southeast Nigeria -- Chapter 10: Assessing Enablers and Barriers to Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Urban Ghana -- Chapter 11: Off-Grid Solar Electrification on the Rise in Africa, But Where to?.
    Abstract: This book evaluates off-grid solar electrification in Africa by examining how political, economic, institutional, and social forces shape the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, including how issues of energy injustice are manifested at different levels and spaces. The book takes a historical, contemporary, and projective outlook using case studies from pre- and ongoing electrification communities in non-Western countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Beyond the diverse nature of these countries in terms of their geographical location in West, East, and Southern Africa, each offers a different experience in terms of colonial history, economic and institutional infrastructure, social and cultural context, and level of adoption of off-grid solar technologies. Notably, the book contributes to the off-grid solar and energy justice scholarship in low-income non-Western contexts. It examines various approaches to energy justice and does so by engaging with Western and non-Western philosophical notions of the concept. It takes into consideration the major principles of Ubuntu philosophy with the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, hence enriching the energy justice framework. Finally, the book interrogates the degree to which the social mission that catalysed the expansion of the off-grid solar sector is being undermined by broader structural dynamics of the capital investment upon which it is reliant. It also argues that the ascendance of off-grid solar electrification in Africa is transformative in that it enables millions of people without access to or facing uncertainties linked to centralised grid energy to have access to basic energy services. Nathanael Ojong is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies and Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University in Canada. He is a member of the Knowledge Network of African Experts established by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to help shape economic and social policy in Africa. His work encompasses renewable energy technologies and finance capitalism, energy and sustainability, urban and rural livelihoods, financial development, inclusive growth, entrepreneurship, informal economies, socio-cultural influences on health outcomes, and social protection in Africa.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIV, 373 p. 25 illus., 20 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031138256
    Series Statement: Energy, Climate and the Environment,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13825-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13825-6
    DDC: 304.2
    Language: English
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    Governance of Social Tipping Points : Resilience of the European Union’s Periphery vis-à-vis Migration, Climate Change and War (2023)
    Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :
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    Keywords: Environmental geography. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Political science. ; Political planning. ; Integrated Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Governance and Government. ; Public Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tipping Points: A Survey of the Literature -- Chapter 3. Governance & Resilience: A Stakeholder Agency Perspective -- Chapter 4. Spatial Determinants of Tipping Points Governance: Beyond Stakeholder Agency -- Chapter 5. Governing Social Tipping Points in the EU’s Periphery: A Conceptual Framework & Methodology -- Chapter 6. Resilience in Migration, Climate Change and Geopolitics: A Case of the EU’s Periphery -- Chapter 7. Resilience of the EU’s Periphery vis-à-vis Social Tipping Points: Policy Recommendations -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This monograph assesses the intersections between social tipping points (STP), a relatively understudied social-ecological concept, and various public policy concepts, such as governance, state capacity and resilience of the state and non-state actors, all within the context of the EU Eastern and Southern periphery. This unique approach is subsequently embodied in the newly created conceptual framework of how the STPs are governed and analyzed using three case studies. The goal is to examine how various state and non-state actors (transnational, private, and local) have managed to navigate the STPs triggered by migration, climate change, and geopolitics. The multi-level governance of STPs is studied within the context of the EU periphery, thus spatial and geographical determinants of the resilience are analyzed as well.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XV, 156 p. 28 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031474132
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47413-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47413-2
    DDC: 910
    Language: English
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