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  • 1
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    Frontier Making in the Amazon : Economic, Political and Socioecological Conversion (2020)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Human geography. ; Agriculture Economic aspects. ; Economic geography. ; Cultural geography. ; America Politics and government. ; Physical Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Agricultural Economics. ; Economic Geography. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; American Politics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Frontier thinking and the Amazon region -- Scarcities and abundances in place and time: A proposed conceptualisation of frontier making -- Placing the agricultural frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil -- Peasant farming in the Amazon frontiers -- Water and energy frontiers in the Amazon -- Production of poverty and the poverty of production in the Amazon -- Disrupting frontier development from within: The latent geographical agency of indigenous peoples -- Development and conservation frontiers in the Pantanal wetland -- Conclusion: Lessons learned to expand frontier theory.
    Abstract: This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critical politico-geographical perspective that will benefit scholars in various other disciplines. This book is intended to push the current theoretical and methodological boundaries regarding the controversies and impacts of agribusiness in the region. A new international scientific network, led by the author, is investigating the broader context of the themes analysed here. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIII, 222 p. 33 illus., 29 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030385248
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38524-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38524-8
    DDC: 910.02
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  • 2
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    The Geography of Beer : Culture and Economics (2020)
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    Keywords: Economic geography. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Geography. ; Economic policy. ; Economic Geography. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Geography. ; Economic Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Geographies of Beer -- Space and Control: Beer Shops in Downtown Yangon -- The Branding Geography of Surrey Craft Breweries -- The Rise, Fall and rise Again of Porter, The World's First Global Beer -- Poland: Polish Craft Beer Revolution (2011-2016) and the Brewing Landscape Evolution -- The Taste of Beers and the Physical Development of Brussels Between 1860 and 1914 -- Planting the Seed: Contagious Innovation Diffusion of Craft Breweries in Florida Tumunu, the Bush Beer Tradition of Aitu, Cook Islands -- Low gravity on the Rise: A Sociocultural Examination of No/Low-Alcohol, “Session”, and “Near Beer” Across The Globe -- Microbrewers and Entrepreneurship in Mexico (WIP) Consumer Tastes and Preferences of Craft Beer in Mexico -- Craftbrewing and the Remapping of San Diego -- The Geographic Dispersion of Hops Production in the United States -- Italian Craft Beer and Their Local Identity -- Performance and Strategy of North American Small Cap Breweries -- The Political Economy of Craft Beer Festivals Heat, Hops, Hallertau: Exploring Economic Implications of Climate Change for the Value Chain of the German Beer Sector -- How Economic Development and Globalization are Changing the Geography of Beer -- The Neighborhood Ingredients of American Beer Geographies -- Brewing in the EU: Exploring the Diversity of Tastes and Systems Across the European Beer Industries -- Take Me Out to the Beer Game: Craft Breweries and Minor League Baseball -- A Midwestern Geography of Local Craft Beer Markets by Firm Type -- State Policy and the Geography of American Small Brewers -- Patchwork Quilt: An Examination of Beer Policies in Georgia -- Geospatial Aspects of Beer Laws in the United States -- Northern Aggression and the Tightening of the Belt -- Looking into The Crystal Stein.
    Abstract: This book builds on the highly successful Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Society (2014) and investigates the geography of beer from two expanded perspectives: culture and economics. The respective chapters provide case studies that illustrate various aspects of these themes. As the beer industry continues to reinvent itself and its economic and cultural geographies, this book showcases historical, current, and future trends at the local, regional, national, and international scales.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 216 p. 72 illus., 46 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030416546
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41654-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41654-6
    DDC: 330.9
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    Housing Policy and Vulnerable Families in The Inner City : Public Housing in Harlem, New York City (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Social Structure.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Status Quo: Observations on a Gentrified Harlem -- 2. Rise and Fall: Harlem Renaissance and Ghettoization -- 3. Urban Poverty in Theory -- 4. Public Housing -- 5. Listening to Harlem: Tenants, Activists, Experts -- Conclusion: Understanding Harlem: The Making of a Mixed-Income Neighbo.
    Abstract: This book provides insights in how the lack of coherent social policy leads to the displacement of vulnerable low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods facing gentrification. First, it makes a case for how social policy by its racist setup has failed vulnerable families in the history of U.S. public housing. Second, it shows that today’s public housing transformation puts the same disadvantaged socio-economic clientele at risk, while the neighborhoods they call their homes are taken over by gentrification. It raises the powerful argument that the continuing privatization of Housing Authorities in the U.S. will likely lead to greater income diversity in formerly neglected neighborhoods, but it will happen at the expense of vulnerable families being displaced and resegregated further outside the city, if no regulatory planning measures for their protection are initiated by the government. By providing a solid empirical portrait of public housing in New York City’s Harlem, this book provides a great resource to students, academics and planners interested in gentrification with specific concern for race and class. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 75 p. 2 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030428495
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42849-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42849-5
    DDC: 304.2
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    Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities : Case Studies & Best Practices in the Science of Sustainability Indicators (2021)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Environmental policy. ; Physical geography. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Policy. ; Physical Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: Introduction: Localizing SDG Goals and empowering cities and communities in North America for sustainability -- SectionI: City & Regional Localization of SDGs -- Chapter2: Localizing the SGDs in Baltimore: Challenges and Opportunities of the USA Sustainable Cities Initiative -- Chapter3: Los Angeles: Measuring Its Ambition to Achieve the SDGs -- Chapter4: The Idea of Sustainability and the Houston Region -- SectionII: Programs and Tools to support the implementation of the SDGs -- Chapter5: Making the SDGs Relevant for Cities: Using the Community Capital Tool in British Columbia -- Chapter6: How Local Communities Can Align with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Santa Cruz County Case Study -- SectionIII: Mobilizing Local SDG efforts across North America -- Chapter7: Top-down and Bottom-Up Approaches to the SDG-Monitoring Challenge -- Chapter8: Data for Good for All – Enabling All Communities to Track Progress Towards SDG Implementation -- SectionIV: Developing new methods and data to localize SDGs -- Chapter9: Helping the Neighborhood Create Indicators for Sustainable Housing Planning, Sustainable Development Goal #11 Sustainable Cities & Communities -- Chapter10: How the Youth Social Enterprise (YSE) Model Supports the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal #8 Economic Growth and Decent Work in American Cities -- SectionV: Goals, Targets and Indicators for Localizing SDGs in the US -- Chapter11: Proposed Local SDG Indicators for US Cities and Communities.
    Abstract: This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities. In 4 main sections, the book presents and frames the many ways in which community indicator programs are either integrating or retooling to integrate the SDGs into their existing frameworks, or how they are developing new programs to track and report progress on the SDGs. This is the first volume that focuses on SDG adoption within the context of North Americans cities and communities, and the unique issues and opportunities prevalent in these settings. The chapters are developed by experienced academics and practitioners of community planning and sustainable development, and will add broad perspective on public policy, organizational management, information management and data visualization. This volume presents a case-study approach to chapters, offering lessons that can be used by three main audiences: 1) teachers and researchers in areas of urban, regional, and environmental planning, urban development, and public policy; 2) professional planners, decision-makers, and urban managers; and 3) sustainability activists and interested groups.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VII, 160 p. 118 illus., 48 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030591731
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59173-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59173-1
    DDC: 304.2
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  • 5
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    Cities of the Future : Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Landscape ecology. ; Geography. ; Architecture. ; Urban economics. ; Human Geography. ; Landscape Ecology. ; Regional Geography. ; Cities, Countries, Regions. ; Urban Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Future of Smart Inclusive Livable Cities -- Smart Environmental Solutions in Future Cities -- Mobility & Infrastructure in Future Cities -- Smart Economic Solutions in Future Cities -- Governance and Community Development in Future Cities -- Saudi Cities Future.
    Abstract: This book seeks to address the key challenges and opportunities of "future cities" embracing novel approaches and grounded technologies in pursuing a vision for smart, inclusive cities. The objective of this book is to discuss multiple areas at the local, national, and international levels and how these challenges can hinder the development objectives planned to be achieved by the cities of the future. The chapters featured in this collection were presented at the 6th Memaryat International Conference (MIC 2022), held at the Effat University, Jeddah. MIC’s objective is to build bridges between science, technology, and innovation, seen as the key levers of attaining the SDGs. This book provides the most innovative ideas presented at the conference to address the key manifestation of “future cities" to embrace novel approaches and grounded technologies in the pursue of a vision for smart inclusive cities. It thus represents a platform for diverse contributions from academics and practitioners to present their different perspectives addressed theoretically as well as in practice concerning the challenges and opportunities of future cities. This includes contributions from decision-makers, architects, urban planners, urban designers, entrepreneurs, and educators to stimulate discussion covering the latest on the challenges and opportunities for better future cities in the different domains of architecture, building science and technology, environmental design, mobility & infrastructure, urban design & landscape, housing & real estate developments, urban planning, governance, socio-cultural & economic development, community engagement, tourism and heritage revitalization.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 258 p. 114 illus., 93 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031154607
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15460-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15460-7
    DDC: 304.2
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  • 6
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    Housing and Technology : Special Focus on Zimbabwe (2022)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Buildings Design and construction. ; Geography. ; Real estate business. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Building Construction and Design. ; Regional Geography. ; Real Estate Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Housing and Technology Nexus: An Overview -- 2. The Context of Housing and Technology in Zimbabwe -- 3. Housing-Technology Differentiation and Typologies -- 4. Housing Delivery, Management and Technology -- 5. Socio-Cultural, Ecological and Economic Issues in Housing and Technology, and the Politics -- 6. Towards Sustainable Policies for Housing and Technology in Zimbabwe. .
    Abstract: The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before. With reference to Zimbabwe, a developing country in Southern Africa, the essence of this book is to bring out housing as an issue within the technology debate and practice. The following themes emerge from the 6 chapters in the book: • The characterisation and conceptualisation of housing and technology and the nexus of both • The complexity of housing challenges and the problems governments face in providing adequate housing, especially for the poor • Diverse practices in housing construction through the application of different typologies of technology • Assessment of the feasibility of technologies in housing development in Zimbabwe by mirroring them against global experiences. • Discussion of alternative policy approaches that may guide technology integration in housing development. This book will excite scholars and practitioners in urban and development studies, construction project management, urban sociology, geography, real estate together with policymakers and government officials. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 117 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031090981
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, 37
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09098-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09098-1
    DDC: 304.2
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  • 7
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    Geology of the Cayman Islands : Evolution of Complex Carbonate Successions on Isolated Oceanic Islands (2022)
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    Keywords: Geology. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Sedimentology. ; Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Geology. ; Water. ; Sedimentology. ; Earth Sciences. ; Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Tectonic Setting of Cayman Islands -- Stratigraphic framework -- The Bluff Group -- The Ironshore Formation -- Modern marine sediments of the Cayman Islands -- Dolomitization of the Bluff Group -- Karst and caves -- Phosphates, terra rossa and mangrove peat -- Modern Hydrology -- Summary Information Database.
    Abstract: Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac are, in reality, the summits of independent fault blocks that rise from the depths of the Caribbean Sea. This book traces the geological evolution of these islands over the last 30 to 35 million years. The balance between deposition of carbonate sediments and karst development of the exposed land was dictated by the interaction between ever-changing sea levels and vertical tectonic movement of the fault blocks. Today, drinking water needed for the ever-increasing populations of the islands is supplied largely by desalinization plants that are located in accord with a detailed knowledge of the bedrock. This book is based on an extensive data base that has been assembled over the last 40 years of field work and laboratory analyses. Noteworthy aspects of this database include: Approximately 60 visits to the islands over last 40 years – sampling and documentation of virtually every accessible outcrop on the islands (including some that no longer exist). Most samples have been fully documented petrographically and geochemically. Data from 120 wells that have been drilled to depths up to 245 m (most less than 125 m). Wells have been cored and/or chip sampled. Full documentation of drilling histories, XRD analyses of samples, extensive geochemical analyses for major and minor elements, stable isotopes, 87Sr/86Sr ratios, and Rare Earth Elements from numerous samples. Mapping and sampling of modern sediments, including sediment cores, from most of the lagoons around Grand Cayman. Extensive thin section petrography, scanning electron microscope, and electron microprobe analyses of the dolostones and limestones that form the bedrock of the islands. Samples and data collected from numerous caves on Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac have been used to track their developmental history. Detailed analyses of phosphates collected from Little Cayman. Detailed analyses of terra rossa collected from each of the islands.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIII, 291 p. 247 illus., 232 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031082306
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08230-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08230-6
    DDC: 551
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  • 8
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    Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya : The Transformation of Hydro-Social Relations (2022)
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    Keywords: Water. ; Hydrology. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Geography. ; Human geography. ; Water. ; Urban Sociology. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on Hydro-Social Relations in Urban Mountain Contexts. Chapter 3. Research Design -- Chapter 4. Socio-Environmental Context of Urban Waterscapes in Leh -- Chapter 5. Urbanisation and the Impact on Water Use in Leh -- Chapter 6. Discussion: The Uneven Waterscape of Leh -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has experienced high rates of urbanisation on the one hand, and tourist numbers have increased exponentially on the other, which has implications for the water supply of the people living there. Through several years of on-site research, challenges on various levels were documented and current governance approaches were analysed. This research forms the basis for future approaches to sustainable development.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 181 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031182495
    Series Statement: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18249-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18249-5
    DDC: 551.48
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  • 9
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    UAVs and Urban Spatial Analysis : An Introduction (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Environment. ; Civil engineering. ; Human geography. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Geographical Information System. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Civil Engineering. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Monitoring.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction to UAVs and urban spatial analysis -- Chapter 2-UAV platforms and implications for geographic observation -- Chapter 3-A primer on aeronautical charts and maps -- Chapter 4-Legal, environmental, operational and safety challenges in urban areas -- Chapter 5-UAVs and privacy -- Chapter 6-UAV data integration with geographic information systems -- Chapter 7-Application 1: remotely sensing physical disorder -- Chapter 8-Application 2: urban vegetation management -- Chapter 9-Application 3: disasters, pest control and emerging diseases -- Chapter 10-Application 4: water management for urban recreational areas -- Chapter 11-Application 5: structure from motion photogrammetry -- Chapter 12-UAVs and urban futures.
    Abstract: This book provides an introduction to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the geographic observation and spatial analysis of urban areas. The velocity of urban change necessitates observation platforms that not only enhance situational awareness for planning and allied analytical efforts, but also provide the ability to rapidly and inexpensively collect data and monitor change. UAVs can accomplish both of these tasks, but their use in urban environments is loaded with social, operational, regulatory and technical challenges that must be addressed for successful deployments. The book provides a resource for educators and students who work with geographic information and are seeking to enhance these data with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Topics covered include, 1) a primer on UAVs and the many different ways they can be used for geographic observation, 2) a detailed overview on the use of aviation maps and charts for operating UAVs in complex urban airspace, 3) techniques for integrating UAV-derived data with more traditional geographic information, 4) application of spatial analytical tools for urban and environmental planning, and 5) an exploration of privacy and public safety issues associated with UAV operation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 206 p. 68 illus., 66 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030358655
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35865-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35865-5
    DDC: 910.285
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    Soil Science Americana : Chronicles and Progressions 1860─1960 (2021)
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    Keywords: Soil science. ; Human geography. ; Ethnology America. ; Culture. ; Soil Science. ; Human Geography. ; American Culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Foreword by Ron Amundson, Maxine Levin -- Acknowledgements -- About this book.-About the author -- 1. Prologue - The roots of soil science -- 2. Pochva Americana I -- 3. From a farm on loess – Emil Truog -- 4. From a farm on till – Charles Kellogg -- 5. From a farm on the plains - Roy Simonson -- 6. The mother of the west -- 7. Building an American soil survey -- 8. Of soils and men -- 9. Pochva Americana II -- 10. Building international soil science -- 11. First International Congress of Soil Science in 1927 -- 12. From 1927 to 1960, and a favor returned -- 13. Seventh International Congress of Soil Science in 1960 -- 14. Chronicles and Progressions -- 15. Epilogue -- References -- Subject index -- Person index.
    Abstract: This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960. The story meanders through the activities, ideas, publications, and correspondence of people who influenced the progressions, that led to the budding and early blossoming of American and international soil science. Interwoven is a tale of two farm boys who grew up 900 km apart in the Midwest USA in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Emil Truog and Charles Kellogg met in the late 1920s and shared a natural connection to the soil. Both were practical pioneers and believed that understanding soils was crucial to helping people on the land make a better living. The USA is a big country, its soil science is geographically intertwined, and the cradle of its history primes back to a few people. “Soil Science Americana is an intellectual biography, not of one individual but of a new scientific field from its emergence to its complete coming of age.” — Louise O. Fresco, President, Wageningen University and Research “In a lively, personal voice, Hartemink traces the roots of modern soil science in the United States…creating a book that will engage both the expert and non-expert in the underappreciated field of soil science.” — Jo Handelsman, Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery “The intellectual master piece is of interest to soil scientists, general public and the policy makers, and will remain pertinent for generations to come.” — Rattan Lal, World Food Prize Laureate 2020, The Ohio State University .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXXIV, 623 p. 146 illus., 74 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030711351
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71135-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71135-1
    DDC: 631.4
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    Geotechnical and Exploration Drilling in the Polar Regions (2022)
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    Keywords: Geotechnical engineering. ; Geography. ; Earth sciences. ; Civil engineering. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Mineralogy. ; Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences. ; Regional Geography. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Civil Engineering. ; Environmental Monitoring. ; Mineralogy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Drilling targets in the Polar Regions -- Chapter 2. Drilling challenges in the Polar Regions -- Chapter 3. Direct-push and percussion drilling -- Chapter 4. Non-coring erosion drilling in permafrost -- Chapter 5. Auger and rotary dry drilling -- Chapter 6. Rotary drilling with drilling fluid circulation -- Chapter 7. Air and foam drilling -- Chapter 8. Special drilling methods in the Polar Regions -- Chapter 9. Offshore drilling and sampling in the Polar Regions. Concluding Remarks, References.
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive review of drilling technologies in the polar regions, from the portable drilling equipment for shallow sampling and coring, to heavy drilling equipment for deep onshore and offshore drilling. Particular attention is given to safe drilling methods in permafrost. In recent years, interest in drilling in the polar regions has increased under the pressure of the geopolitical “rush” and the undiscovered resource potential. In addition, borehole monitoring of permafrost thermal states is urgently needed to obtain evidence of climate change. The book focuses on the latest drilling technologies but also discusses the historical development of sampling, and drilling tools and devices, over the last 60–70 years providing valuable insights into a way forward and future possibilities.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 387 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031072697
    Series Statement: Springer Polar Sciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07269-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07269-7
    DDC: 624.151
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    Formal Methods in Architecture : Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020 (2021)
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    Keywords: Architecture. ; Human geography. ; Civil engineering. ; Computer science. ; Mathematics. ; Architecture. ; Human Geography. ; Civil Engineering. ; Computer Science. ; Mathematics.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics of our Work -- From Datascape to Formal Methods -- Variational Beauty of Space. Machine Intuition and Urban Networks -- Global and Disciplinary Frameworks for Formal Methods in Architecture -- Mathematically Developing Building Facades: an Algorithmic Framework -- Design to Experiment - Experiment to Design: Tool (User, Breaker, Designer) -- Tectonics of Differential Growth. Folds in Additive Fabrication and Moulding for Architectural Design -- BIM Based Airport Design Project Standardization (IFC) for Use of Code Checking -- Agent-based Semiology: Optimizing Office Occupation Patterns with Agent-based Simulations -- Digital Doxiadis: Parametric Thinking for Human Settlements -- L’Objet Invalide.
    Abstract: This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020. Studies focus on the use of methodologies, especially those that have witnessed recent developments, that stem from the mathematical and computer sciences and are developed in a collaborative way with architecture and related fields. This book constitutes a contribution to the debate and to the introduction of new methodologies and tools in the mentioned fields that derive from the application of formal methods in the creation of new explicit languages for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It adds valuable insight into the development of new practices solving identified societal problems and promoting the digital transformation of institutions in the mentioned fields. The primary audience of this book will be from the fields of architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, AEC, landscape design, computer sciences and mathematics, both academicians and professionals.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXXII, 313 p. 193 illus., 159 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030575090
    Series Statement: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57509-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57509-0
    DDC: 720
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    Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal : Geographic Perspectives (2021)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology . ; Human geography. ; Environmental sciences. ; Physics. ; Geographical Information System. ; Conservation Biology. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Physics.
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Contents: Geographic Settings -- Spatial Locations of Nepal (Geopolitics) -- Culture, Religion, and Natural Resources -- Population Growth, Migration and Residential Mobility (Literature review and field verifications) -- Demographic Theory and Population Growth -- Fertility, Mortality, and Demographic Transition -- Human-environment relationships -- General Theory of Development and Migration -- Political Ecology of Land Encroachment -- Concepts and Determinants of Migration.
    Abstract: This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country’s representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical structure- plains, hill ranges, mountainous massifs - and wide range of altitudinal terrains, which represent and replicate South Asian and East Asian continental conditions differing as markedly as humid tropical lowlands, sub-tropical hill ranges and temperate to sub-arctic mountainous environments. Associated forest regimes, in which deforestation and reforestation patterns have evolved in recent times, and differing densities of settlement and cleared agricultural landscapes in each of these altitudinal zones, add to the environmental diversity of Nepal. Associated fauna and exotic species are in various states of endangerment especially Bengal tigers, one horned rhinos, wild elephants, crocodile, musk deer, and peasants, to name a few- so that their forested and mountainous habitats as ‘Wild Life Reserves’ also deserve our attention, and are featured in this monograph’s remit.
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    Pages: XXXI, 764 p. 211 illus., 169 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030501686
    Series Statement: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50168-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50168-6
    DDC: 910.285
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    Witness To A Changing Earth : A Geologist’s Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change (2021)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences.
    Abstract: This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems. Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.
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    Pages: XXII, 317 p. 61 illus., 57 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030718114
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71811-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71811-4
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    Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region (2020)
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    Keywords: Environment. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Biotic communities. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Water. ; Regional Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Ecosystems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: Managing Carbon Cycle Linkage to Livelihood in HKH Region -- Chapter2: Climate Change Mitigation and Pastoral Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: Research Focuses, Opportunities and Challenges -- Chapter3: Tracking of Vegetation Carbon Dynamics from 2001 to 2016 by MODIS GPP in HKH region -- Chapter4: Livelihood and Carbon Management by Indigenous People in Southern Himalayas -- Chapter5: Effects of Different Grassland Management Patterns on Soil Properties on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter6: Carbon Management of the Livestock Industry in the HKH Region -- Chapter7: Wetlands as a Carbon Sink: Insight into the Himalayan Region -- Chapter8: Milk and Dung Production by Yaks (Poephagus grunniens): Important Products for the Livelihood of the Herders and for Carbon Recycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter9: Interactive Mechanism of Service Function of Ecosystems and the Effect of Climate Change to the Service Function of Ecosystem in Alpine Grassland of Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter10: Prospects of Biochar for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood Improvement in the Tibetan Grasslands -- Chapter11: Optimizing the Alpine Grazing System to Improve Carbon Management and Livelihood for Tibetan Herders -- Chapter12: Promoting Artificial Grasslands to Improve Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood of Herders -- Chapter13: Prospects for REDD+ Financing in Promoting Forest Sustainable Management in HKH -- Chapter14: Designing Water Resource Use for Poverty Reduction in the HKH Region: Institutional and Policy Perspectives -- Chapter15: Indigenous Practice in Agro-pastoralism and Carbon Management from a Gender Perspective: A Case from Nepal -- Chapter16: Adaptation by Herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Response to Climate Change and Policy Reforms: the Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihoods -- Chapter17: Developing Linkages for Carbon Sequestration, Livelihoods and Ecosystem Service Provision in Mountain Landscapes--Challenges and Opportunities in the Himalaya Hindu Kush (HKH) Region -- Chapter18: Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region.
    Abstract: This book contributes to our understanding of linkages between carbon management and local livelihoods by taking stock of the existing evidence and drawing on field experiences in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, an area that provides fresh water to more than 2 billion people and supports the world’s largest population of pastoralists and millions of livestock. This edited volume addresses two main questions: 1. Does carbon management offer livelihood opportunities or present risks, and what are they? 2. Do the attributes of carbon financing alter the nature of livelihood opportunities and risks? Chapters analyze the most pressing deficiencies in understanding carbon storage in both soils and in above ground biomass, and the related social and economic challenges associated with carbon sequestration projects. Chapters deliver insights to both academics from diverse disciplines (natural sciences, social sciences and engineering) and to policy makers. .
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    Pages: XXI, 347 p. 90 illus., 79 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030205911
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20591-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20591-1
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    Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development : A Pattern Language Approach (2021)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Sustainable architecture. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: State of the planet -- Chapter2: The challenge of a changing environment -- Chapter3: The importance of a sustainable future -- Chapter4: Sustainability, ecological systems, and climate change -- Chapter5: Beyond sustainable development: regenerative-adaptive futures -- Chapter6: Origins of advanced knowledge -- Chapter7: Interconnections between people and their natural environments -- Chapter8: A regenerative pattern language -- Chapter 9: Case study: application of the regenerative pattern language -- Chapter10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. The book examines an integral approach to contemporary theories of planning and design that explores the human-nature relationship patterns in social and spatial interconnections, between people and their natural environments. The interconnectedness of human and natural systems is used to scaffold possible solutions to address key environmental and sustainability issues that specifically address the need for patterns of behaviour that acknowledge the duality of ‘man and nature’. In 12 chapters, the book presents a holistic, regenerative-adaptive pattern language that encapsulates how communities can better appreciate landscape change under future climate effects, and acknowledges the importance to adapt to patterns of change of place and the environment and therefore inform the communities’ responses for sustainable development. The application of the regenerative-adaptive pattern language was tested along the Great Ocean Road region of the Victorian coast in Australia. The concluding chapters argues that for human settlements and cities to be resilient and sustainable, we must understand the interconnected patterns of human-built environments and natural systems, and how we function in a social-spatial dimension with these. The book is intended for practitioners and academic scholars with interest in sustainable development, regenerative design, pattern languages, biophilia, settlement planning, and climate change adaptation.
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    Pages: XXV, 247 p. 109 illus., 31 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030532345
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53234-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53234-5
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    The Soils of India (2020)
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    Keywords: Soil science. ; Human geography. ; Environment. ; Agriculture. ; Soil Science. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1:Introduction (Bipin B Mishra) -- Chapter 2:History of Soil Research (A. Subba Rao) -- Chapter 3:Climate (Kamaljit Ray) -- Chapter 4:Geology and Geomorphology (K. S. Anil Kumar) -- Chapter 5: Major Soil Types and Classification (K S Anil Kumar) -- Chapter 6: Soil Mineralogy and Clay Minerals (S C Datta) -- Chapter 7: Soil Micromorphology (Sayantani Neogi) -- Chapter 8: Soil Biogeochemistry (Debjani Sihi) -- Chapter 9: Benchmark soils in Agro-ecological regions (K. S. Anil Kumar) -- Chapter 10: Land Evaluation and Land Use Planning (V Ramamurthy).
    Abstract: This book provides an overview of the diversified soil regimes in India. In addition to the historical advances in soil research and its limitations, it describes the monitoring of various soil conditions and soil uses to improve productivity. Discussing topics such as climate, geology and geomorphology, major soil types and their classification, soil mineralogy and clays, soil micromorphology, soil biogeochemistry, benchmark soils, land evaluation and land use planning, soil health and fertility and soil resilience, the book highlights the multiple uses of soils in industry, human health care, mitigation of challenges due to climate change and construction. It also presents measures for a brighter future of soil science in India, such as imposing organic farming principles toward sustainable agriculture in the context of the second green revolution besides alleviating the poverty and providing the employment opportunities among the farming communities in India.
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    Pages: XXVIII, 281 p. 117 illus., 101 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030310820
    Series Statement: World Soils Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31082-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31082-0
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    Geodynamics of the Indian Plate : Evolutionary Perspectives (2020)
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    Keywords: Geology. ; Geomorphology. ; Physical geography. ; Geochemistry. ; Geography. ; Geology. ; Geomorphology. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Geochemistry. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Evolving Early Earth: Insights from Peninsular India -- Chapter3. Tracking India within Precambrian supercontinent cycles -- Chapter4. Proterozoic Sedimentary basins of India -- Chapter5. Oxygenation of early atmosphere and potential stratigraphic records from India -- Chapter6. Early life from the Proterozoic sedimentary basins of India -- Chapter7. Geodynamics of Gondwanaland -- Chapter8. Cretaceous Volcanism in Peninsular India: Rajmahal_Sylhet, Deccan Traps -- Chapter9. Phanerozoic Mass Extinctions and Indian Stratigraphic Records -- Chapter10. Geological Evolution of the Himalayan Mountains -- Chapter11. Cenozoic Himalayan foreland basin: an overview and regional perspective of the evolving sedimentary succession -- Chapter12. Active tectonics of Himalayan frontal fault zone in the Sub Himalaya -- Chapter13. Late Quaternary evolution and morphostratigraphic development of the Ganga Plains -- Chapter14. Evolution and development of the Indian Monsoon -- Chapter15. Climate Change over the Indian sub-continent.
    Abstract: This book provides insights on new geological, tectonic, and climatic developments in India through a time progression from the Archean to the Anthropocene that are captured via authoritative entries from experts in earth sciences. This volume aims to bring graduate students and researchers up to date on the geodynamic evolution of the Indian Plate; concepts that have so far resulted in a rather uneven treatment of the subject at different institutions. The book is divided into 4 sections and includes perspectives such as the formation and evolution of the Indian crust in comparison to its neighbors such as Antarctica, Africa and Australia; the evolution of Precambrian cratons and sedimentary basins of India; and a summary account of early life reported in the Indian stratigraphic record. Readers will also discover the key recent research into the neotectonics, tectonic geomorphology, and paleoseismology of the Himalayan Front. Researchers and students in geology, earth sciences, sedimentology, paleobiology and geography will find this book appealing.
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    Pages: VIII, 574 p. 173 illus., 139 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030159894
    Series Statement: Springer Geology,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15989-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15989-4
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    Agricultural Drought in Slovakia: An Impact Assessment : NDVI and Satellite Based Data (2020)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Agriculture. ; Climatology. ; Environment. ; Geography. ; Ecology . ; Geographical Information System. ; Agriculture. ; Climate Sciences. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Regional Geography. ; Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction/motivation -- 2. State of the art -- 3. Material and methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- References.
    Abstract: This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land. Dry seasons in the time series from 1960 to 2014 were determined according to the monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The field research was carried out on 12 sites including western Slovakia, Prešov, Trnava and Nitra regions. Data collected from satellite imagery, climate data analyses and drought indices was analysed to determine the value of NDVI as an evaluation tool.
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    Pages: IX, 90 p. 75 illus., 69 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030420611
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42061-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42061-1
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    Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia : Science, Adaptation and Mitigation (2021)
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    Keywords: Environment. ; Climatology. ; Physical geography. ; Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Climate Sciences. ; Physical Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Introduction / Overview -- Part 2 Climate change adaptation -- Part 3. Climate change mitigation -- Glossary. .
    Abstract: This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to its geographical, physical, and social-economic situations. There are many initiatives to understand and deal with the impacts in the country. The national government has issued key guiding policies for climate change. International agencies together with local stakeholders are working on strengthening the capacity in the policy formulations and implement actions to build community resilience. Universities are conducting research on climate change related at different scales. Cities and local governments are implementing innovations in adapting to the impacts of climate change and transiting toward green economy. This book summarizes and discusses the state-of-the-art regarding climate change in Indonesia including adaptation and mitigation measures. The primary readership of the book includes policy makers, scientists and practitioners of climate change actions in Indonesia and other countries facing similar challenges. Chapter “Carbon Stocks from Peat Swamp Forest and Oil Palm Plantation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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    Pages: VIII, 328 p. 47 illus., 41 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030555368
    Series Statement: Springer Climate,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8
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    Urban Regionalisation Processes : Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Regional Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Urban Regionalisation Processes in Sicily: from the Theoretical Framework to the Local Dynamics -- Spatial Phenomena -- Informal Practices -- Institutional Policies.
    Abstract: This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe the rules of these new and peculiar cities, by using the living dimension as a device for the epistemological breaking down of traditional socio-spatial analyses. After a thorough theoretical introduction, it describes two Sicilian case studies that prove particularly relevant to the construction of a new, alternative urban regionalization theory. These two areas, Palermo and South-Eastern Sicily, are described through several aspects, such as the role of migrants and migrations in defining urban regionalization, the power of fiction and the new urban forms that are slowly emerging in Sicily. Overall, this book provides a refreshing view of what Sicily has been and is becoming, by deconstructing most of its clichés and suggesting theoretical perspectives grounded in both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
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    Pages: XI, 233 p. 114 illus., 107 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030644697
    Series Statement: UNIPA Springer Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64469-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64469-7
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    National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa : Beyond the rhetoric (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Peace. ; Human rights. ; Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Peace and Conflict Studies. ; Human Rights. ; Politics and Human Rights.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2, Towards a Legal Framework on Internal Displacement in South Sudan -- Chapter3. Mediating Protection of Forcibly Displaced Populations in the Frontlines of the Central African Republic -- Chapter4. The Adequacy of Law and Policy Frameworks on Internal Displacement in Ethiopia: A Critical Appraisal -- Chapter5. Beyond Accountability and Eminent Domain: Development Rights and Development-Induced Displacement in Kenya -- Chapter6. A Review of Land and Property Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Zimbabwe: Steps Towards Restitution -- Chapter7. Internally Displaced Children in Nigeria: A Rights-Based Situational Appraisal -- Chapter8. Straddled Between Government Forces and Armed Separatists: The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons from the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon -- Chapter9. National Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa: Law and Policy Beyond the Rhetoric.
    Abstract: This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa. The novelty of this book resonates from the fact that it explores national perspectives on internal displacement, with the aim of providing a well-grounded engagement on the subject of internal displacement, for which very little exists. The chapter authors are drawn from various disciplines and institutional backgrounds, and provide context-based analysis and examine the situation in countries with significant population displacement. The work is a timely engagement, as the issue of internal displacement has emerged as a pertinent concern in Africa. Each of the chapters in this book draw on significant context-based knowledge and on issues for which there is a need for pertinent attention across the African countries. This book will be a significant reference point for researchers, professors, practitioners, judges, policy makers, international organizations, regional bodies, lawyers and scholars in the field of migration, forced migration, and regional institutions.
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    Pages: VII, 113 p. 2 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030668846
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66884-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66884-6
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    Urban Geography in Postcolonial Zimbabwe : Paradigms and Perspectives for Sustainable Urban Planning and Governance (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Urban policy. ; Sustainability. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Regional Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Sustainability. ; Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the urban geography scape of Zimbabwe -- Social justice in spatial governance -- Urban planning and policy in Zimbabwe: Change with continuity -- Studentification and its interplay on urban form and urban policy – reflection from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- Urban governance and the political economy of livelihoods and poverty in Harare, Zimbabwe -- (Un)healthy cities: Reflections on urban public health in poor neighbourhoods -- Deviation, transgression or digression? The informal city as the dominant phenomenon in the Zimbabwean urban economy -- Ecological risks of the postcolonial city: Experiences from Harare, Zimbabwe -- Managing urban crime and insecurity in Zimbabwe -- More than urban agriculture: A case for planning for urban food security in Harare, Zimbabwe -- Urban development management in light of the risks and disasters caused by climate change -- Public parks and leisure in the post-independence context of Bulawayo City -- Urban land markets -- The political economy of urban informal settlements in Zimbabwe -- Putting together the broken pieces: Rewiring the urban geography of Zimbabwe.
    Abstract: This book is interdisciplinary and provides a cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration and assessment of the urban geography perspectives in Zimbabwe. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book not only contributes to academia but also seeks to inform urban policy with the view of contributing to the national aspirations of Zimbabwe attaining middle-income status by 2030. Adopting a multi-dimensional assessment that transcends disciplines such as urban and regional planning, human and physical geography, urban governance, political science, economics and development studies, the book provides a background for co-production concerning urban development in the Global South. The book contributes into its analysis of the institutional and legislative framework that relates to the urban geography of Zimbabwe, as these are responsible for the evolution of the urban system in the country. The connections among different sectors and issues such as environment, economy, politics and the wider objectives of the SDGs, especially goal 11 aspiring to create sustainable communities by 2030, are explored. The success stories relating to urban geography in Zimbabwe are identified together with the best possible practices that may inform urban planning, policy and management.
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    Pages: XVII, 317 p. 41 illus., 35 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030715397
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71539-7
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    Integrated Research on Disaster Risks : Contributions from the IRDR Young Scientists Programme (2021)
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    Keywords: Environment. ; Human geography. ; Public health. ; Natural disasters. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Human Geography. ; Public Health. ; Natural Hazards. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Index -- Glossary.
    Abstract: This book is a collection of works written by young scientists involved in the Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR). Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research programme co-sponsored by the International Science Council (merged by International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). It is a global, multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought by natural disasters, mitigating their impacts, and improving related policy-making mechanisms. The book examines multidisciplinary research and actions related to disaster risk reduction internationally. The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Young Scientists programme is: • A sub-programme within IRDR which promotes capacity building of young professionals and encourages them to undertake innovative and need-based research which makes science–policy and science–practice linkages stronger. • IRDR Young Scientists Programme was started in late 2016. Currently, it is a community of 115 young researchers from over 40 countries after 3 batches of application. • IRDR network and partners provide academic advice and training courses, workshops, and programmes for IRDR young scientists. • IRDR young scientists contribute to innovative research in the field of disaster risk reduction and participate in conferences and/or social media as the ambassador of IRDR. The book is of interest to researchers and scholars in the field of governance of sustainability and environmental governance. Postgraduate students will benefit this book within courses on environmental governance, on climate change governance, and on transformation and social change processes. Societal actors in climate change adaptation and other environmental governance fields on local, national, and international levels can benefit from the focus on societally relevant findings in the past 10 years of research on adaptiveness.
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    Pages: VII, 356 p. 111 illus., 90 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030555634
    Series Statement: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55563-4
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    Spatial Planning in Poland : Law, Property Market and Planning Practice (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Urban policy. ; Law. ; Real estate business. ; Urban economics. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Law. ; Real Estate Economics. ; Urban Economics. ; Regional and Spatial Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Key determinants of spatial management systems in Europe (Paulina Legutko-Kobus, Maciej Nowak) -- Chapter 2. Determinants and effects of planning practice in Poland (PrzemysławŚleszyński) -- Chapter 3. Spatial development law in Poland and related problems (Maciej Nowak) -- Chapter 4. Determining the interdependence (including barriers and challenges) between legal regulations and planning practice (PŚ, MN PLK) -- Chapter 5. Summary and conclusions.
    Abstract: This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system. Based on specific case studies, it gives examples of possible problems and ways of solving them. It applies to Poland's standard and the determinants of spatial policy in other countries. It provides the basis for a developed international discussion and concretely suggests specific actions at local, regional and national levels.
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    Pages: X, 119 p. 17 illus., 16 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030969394
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96939-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96939-4
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    Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States : A Scientific Assessment (2022)
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    Keywords: Natural disasters. ; Fire ecology. ; Forestry. ; Pollution. ; Biology. ; Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Natural Hazards. ; Fire Ecology. ; Forestry. ; Pollution. ; Biological Sciences. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Assessing the State of Smoke Science -- Chapter 2. Fuels and Consumption -- Chapter 3. Fire Behavior and Heat Release as Source Conditions for Smoke -- Chapter 4. Smoke Plume Dynamics -- Chapter 5. Emissions -- Chapter 6. Smoke Chemistry -- Chapter 7. Social, Economic, and Health Effects of Smoke -- Chapter 8. Resource Manager Perspectives on the Need for Smoke Science -- Appendix A: Regional Perspectives on Smoke Issues and Management -- Appendix B: Smoke Monitoring Networks, Models, and Mapping Tools.
    Abstract: This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are expected to increase in extent and severity in a warmer climate. Accurate smoke information is a foundation for helping individuals and communities to effectively mitigate potential smoke impacts from wildfires and prescribed fires. The book documents our current understanding of smoke science for (1) primary physical, chemical, and biological issues related to wildfire and prescribed fire, (2) key social issues, including human health and economic impacts, and (3) current and anticipated management and regulatory issues. Each chapter provides a summary of priorities for future research that provide a roadmap for developing scientific information that can improve smoke and fire management over the next decade.
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    Pages: XVI, 341 p. 63 illus., 50 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030870454
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87045-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87045-4
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    Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks : A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster (2023)
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    Keywords: Economic geography. ; Economic history. ; Human geography. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Environmental economics. ; International business enterprises. ; Economic Geography. ; Economy-wide Country Studies. ; Human Geography. ; Tourism Management. ; Environmental Economics. ; International Business.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part II: Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2. Situating This Study Within Geographical Debates On Labour In Gpns -- Chapter 3. A Relational, Practice-Oriented Approach To Labour Control Regimes And Union Agency In Gpns -- Part III: Research Design & Methodology -- Chapter 4. Research Design & Methodology -- Part IV: Introduction Of Empirical Case -- Chapter 5. Situating The Bangalore Export Cluster Within The Garment Gpn -- Part V: Empirical Analysis -- Chapter 6. Labour Control Regime In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster -- Chapter 7. Union Agency In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster -- Part VI: Theoretical Contributions And Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Contributions Of This Study -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Lessons For Building Sustained Union Power In Garment Production Countries.
    Abstract: This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study, the book explores the conditions that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers’ unions to build collective power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts from labour geography, relational economic geography, and Global Production Network (GPN) analysis, the book highlights, on the one hand, how the complex labour control regime in the Bangalore export-garment cluster poses manifold challenges and constraints for workers’ and unions’ collective agency. On the other hand, the book illustrates the various networked agency strategies that local garment unions in Bangalore have developed over the years to overcome these constraints by tapping into coalitional power resources from worker, consumer and labour rights organisations in the Global North. This book is therefore highly relevant for economic geographers and other scholars interested in dynamics of labour and development in GPNs as well as for unionists and labour rights activists committed to improving working conditions in the global garment industry. This is an open access book.
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    Pages: XXV, 313 p. 27 illus., 13 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031273872
    Series Statement: Economic Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2
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    Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Environmental Health : Exploring the Situation of the Lower Gangetic Delta (2023)
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    Keywords: Environmental health. ; Geography. ; Environmental management. ; Ecology . ; Epidemiology. ; Biotic communities. ; Conservation biology. ; Environmental Health. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Management. ; Ecological Epidemiology. ; Ecosystems. ; Conservation Biology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Covid-19 And The Environment -- Chapter 2-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Air Quality -- Chapter 3-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Marine And Estuarine Water Quality -- Chapter 4-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Coastal Biodiversity -- Chapter 5-Impact Of Covid-19 On Livelihoods Of The Lower Gangetic Delta.
    Abstract: This book examines the impacts that the COVID-19 lockdown has had on environmental and ecological health, with a focus on coastal ecosystems in the Lower Gangetic Delta. The book begins with an overview of COVID-19's spread and impact before and after the lockdown in the focus region, then addresses the specific impacts that the lockdown period had and continues to have on air quality, marine and estuarine water quality, coastal biodiversity, and the livelihoods of the region's inhabitants, especially those who live below the poverty line. The decrease in human activity combined with the complete closure of various sectors, including air travel, oil and gas drilling, and construction, has had a pronounced effect on biodiversity and overall environmental health that is yet to be fully realized. The book sheds light on these changes and assesses how biodiversity, ambient air quality, and ecosystem functioning will progress as COVID-19 remains a threat and the lockdown persists. The study will be of interest to researchers, government officials and professionals dealing with disaster management, environmental science, biological science, and health.
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    Pages: XIII, 310 p. 615 illus., 602 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031272424
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27242-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27242-4
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    Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services : Proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference 2018 (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Sustainability. ; Soil science. ; Physical geography. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Sustainability. ; Soil Science. ; Physical Geography.
    Abstract: These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization. What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What smart solutions can make life in cities safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly? It is projected that 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, and as such the book describes how this rapid urbanization will alter the face of the world. Focusing on solutions for the environmental problems of modern megapolises, it discusses advanced approaches and smart technologies to monitor, model and assess the environmental consequences and risks. The contributors present examples of successful sustainable urban development, including management and design of green infrastructure, waste management, run-off purification and remediation of urban soils. The SSC conference and its proceedings offer a valuable contribution to sustainable urban development, and are of interest to the scientific and research community, municipal services, environmental protection agencies, landscape architects, civil engineers, policy makers and other stakeholders in urban management and greenery.
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    Pages: XIII, 280 p. 117 illus., 97 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030160913
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16091-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16091-3
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    Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America : Interdisciplinary Approaches Using GIS and Remote Sensing Frameworks (2023)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Human geography. ; Environmental management. ; Geographical Information System. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-environmental Research in Latin America -- Chapter 2. Using Spatial Time-series and Field Data to Understand Cultural Drivers of Land Change: Connecting Land Conflict and Land Change in Eastern Amazonia -- Chapter 3. Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 4. Territorial Implications of Economic Diversification in the Waorani Ancestral Lands -- Chapter 5. New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia -- Chapter 6. From Mapping to Guiding: An Emergent Framework for the Multiple Uses of Remote Sensing and GIScience in Socio-Environmental Research in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 7. The Use of Remote Sensing in Air Pollution Control and Public Health -- Chapter 8. Human-environmental Interactions and their Impacts on Temperate Forests in the Exploradores Valley in Western Patagonia -- Chapter 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful Combination of Conservation and Tourism? -- Chapter 10. GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America -- Chapter 11. Contributions to Socio-Environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology -- Chapter 12. Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI -- Chapter 13. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Interdisciplinary GIScience Research on Human-environment Dynamics in Latin America.
    Abstract: This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and environmentally mega-diverse region known as Latin America. While remote sensing has been mostly used for mapping and monitoring physical features, geographic information systems open up opportunities for the integration of socio-economic and environmental data collected through individual and community-based surveys, in-situ measurements, and other participatory research techniques to offer additional analytically grounded power when evaluating socio-environmental processes that shape Latin American landscapes. The topics addressed in this book include deforestation and land degradation, borderlands dynamics, agriculture and agroecological systems, environmental conservation and development, public health, tourism, environmental justice, archeology, volunteered geography and urban planning, among others. The book is intended for academics, graduate and undergraduate classrooms, and general audiences with interest in Latin America and the socio-environmental issues that threaten the sustainability of the region and local communities. The book will also appeal to practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in the application of geo-technologies and field-based research to address complex socio-environmental problems in the Global South. .
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    Pages: XIX, 294 p. 78 illus., 73 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031226809
    Series Statement: The Latin American Studies Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22680-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22680-9
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    Place Naming, Identities and Geography : Critical Perspectives in a Globalizing and Standardizing World (2023)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; History. ; Political science. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Philology. ; Human Geography. ; History. ; Politics and International Studies. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Philology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Approaching place naming narratives -- Part I: Challenging conceptual and theoretical approaches to place naming -- Assessing the validity of critical toponymy perspectives for understanding human perception of places: An analytical framework -- Legacies and place naming: Perspectives from Korea and Japan -- Place naming and neotoponymy: French experiences through the lens of a Theoretical Framework -- Geographical Names in Argentina: Present and Challenges -- Toponymy, Scale and the Change of Scale. A Geographical and Linguistic Challenge -- The mystery of hydronomy in the land of Israel -- United Nations capacity building in toponymy -- Part II: Approaches to implementing standardization of place names -- Standardization of geographical names on land and sea in Slovenia -- The New Zealand geographic board and the contested nature of place names in New Zealand -- Theorising multiple place names in Southern Africa -- Conflicts and challenges in the standardisation of geographical names in Spain -- Language policies in the field of toponymy: Perspectives on Spain -- Urban toponymy in Turkey -- Cultural crossroads in toponymy: Case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Part III: Geo-histories, legacies, and toponymy transitions -- Giving identity to space through (re)naming: Practice of village renaming in the period of the republic of Turkey -- Geo-history of the toponymy of Mohács Plain, SW Hungary -- Recreating the future: Modern residential neighbourhood and existing toponyms in Sarajevo -- Street-naming in Malta as a geo-cultural and political exercise as seen from local sources -- Toponymic study of the map of New Lusitania: A Portuguese cartographic monument from the 18th century -- Names and naming of collective farms in (the) Soviet Estonia -- Part IV: Toponymy: Narratives, languages, culture, and education -- Reading Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes -- Translating topographies: Brian Friel’s approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland -- The overlaid past: The politics of space and memory in Gibraltar’s ‘Doubling’ street naming principle -- From historical to new place names. The case of Italy -- Geographical names represent a memory of places: Case study in Bandung Basin, West Java, Indonesia -- The vital question of placenames and naming of places in geographical education: Concepts, activities, and questions for reflection -- Part V: The relationship between geographical naming and cultural politics -- The nexus between geographical naming, place, and the politics of power.
    Abstract: This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education. Space and place naming or toponymy has a long tradition in the sciences and a renewed critical interest in geography and allied disciplines including the humanities. Place: location and cartographical aspects, etymology and geo-histories so salient in past studies, are now being enhanced from a range of radical perspectives, especially in a globalizing, standardizing world with Googlization and the consequent ‘normalization’ of place names, perceptions and images worldwide including those for marketing purposes. Nonetheless, there are conflicting and contesting voices. The interdisciplinary research is enhanced with authors from regional, national and international toponymy-related institutions and organizations including the UNGEGN, IGU, ICA and so forth.
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    Pages: XVIII, 632 p. 158 illus., 134 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031215100
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21510-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21510-0
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    Justice in Climate Action Planning (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Political planning. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Public Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Integrating inclusivity & justice into climate action planning: Beyond mere symbolism. Chapter 2 -- We can’t address what we don’t acknowledge: How urban climate adaptation plans confront racial injustices. Chapter 3 -- Sustainable city? The search for social justice in Flagstaff, Arizona’s climate action plan. Chapter 4 -- Missing the Housing for the Trees: The Challenge of Equity in Urban Climate Planning. Chapter 5 -- Climate Discourses in France: Fuel Taxes, Yellow Vests, and the Grand Débat. Chapter 6 -- Incorporating an Equity Lens into Local Climate Action Planning: Portland, Oregon’s Experience. Chapter 7 -- Community engagement and equity in climate adaptation planning: experience of small and mid- size cities in the United States and in France. Chapter 8 -- Mobilities In Climate Action Planning: The Challenges of Integrating (In)Justices in Current Policies. Chapter 9 -- Resilience and climate risk in extreme and extreme - ing urban environments: planning and climate justice. Chapter 10 -- Addressing Individualized Risk Response to Climate Resilience Assessment by Fostering Adaptive Capacity. Chapter 11 -- Downscaling Resilience: Appropriating and Contesting Resilience from City to Neighborhood. Chapter 12 -- Cultural Heritage Preservation, Climate Action Planning, and Social Justice. Chapter 13 -- Community agency for climate justice through and beyond the state: The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. Chapter 14 -- Creating Tools for Community Based Climate Planning. Chapter 15 -- Interagency Collaborations in Place- Based Environmental Sustainability Work: Social Network Insights at the Community Level. Chapter 16 -- Afloat and Adrift: What’s the Plan as South Florida Slowly Sinks? Chapter 17 -- Vulnerable Locations and the Need for Climate Action Planning: The Case of Cape Coral, Florida.
    Abstract: This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city. Recent events in the United States make the context particularly ripe for a discussion of justice in urban climate politics. On the one hand, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd’s death, and the prominence of racial discrimination in the public realm have mainstreamed the notion of justice. On the other hand, the dire consequences of increased frequency and severity of climate events on vulnerable segments of urban populations are undeniable. While some cities have been proactive about integrating justice in their climate action planning, in most places an explicit and systematic link between both spheres has been lacking. This book explores this interface as it seeks to understand how cities can respond to climate change in a just way and for just outcomes. While resilience strategies based on “development” may engage historic inequities, they may at the same time result in marginalizing certain populations through various processes, from mismatched solutions to outright exclusion and climate gentrification. By identifying how certain populations are included in or excluded from climate action planning practices, the chapters in this volume draw on case studies to outline the differential outcomes of climate action in American cities, also proposing a template for comparative work beyond the US. The authors tackle the debate about how justice is or is not integrated in climate action plans and assess practical implications, while also making theoretical and methodological contributions. As it fills a gap in the literature at the intersection of justice and climate action, the book produces new insights for a wide-ranging audience: students, practitioners, policy-makers, planners, the non-profit sector, and scholars in geography, urban planning, urban studies, environmental studies, ecology, political science, or anthropology. Along five axes of investigation―theory, resilience, equity, community, and comparison as method―the contributors offer various pathways into the intersection between urban climate action and different understandings of justice. Collectively, they invite a reflection that can lead to practical initiatives in climate mitigation, while also advancing the theorization of social justice to account for the urban as a node where (in)justice plays out and can be addressed with significant results.
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    Pages: XXX, 293 p. 56 illus., 52 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030739393
    Series Statement: Strategies for Sustainability,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73939-3
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    Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region (2022)
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    Keywords: Climatology. ; Bioclimatology. ; Geography. ; Climate Sciences. ; Climate Change Ecology. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate Change Models and Impacts -- Assessment of Future Climate Trend Based on Multi-RCMs Models and Its Impact on Groundwater Recharge of the Mediterranean Coastal Aquifer of Ghis-Nekkor (Morocco) -- Species distribution based-modelling under climate change: the case of two native wild Olea europaea subspecies in Morocco, O. e. subsp. europaea var. sylvestris and O. e. subsp. maroccana -- The frequency of rare Cyclones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Northeastern Africa as a sign of climate change Using satellite Imagery, Climate data models and GIS-Based Analysis -- Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology in the Mediterranean Part of Slovenia -- Climate change impacts and the role of forestry: Insights from the Mediterranean region -- Energy Impacts on Climate Change: Issues, challenges and solutions with clean Conversion Technology -- Montenegro and World: Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation -- Portrayals of Climate Change and Drought in the Politically Oriented Turkish Press: Socialist, Islamist, and Nationalist Accounts of Extreme Weather in 2007 and 2014 -- Climate changes and insolation in the Mediterranean basin: the case of Montenegro -- The conservation challenge of traditional agroecosystems in Morocco: the case study of six oases agroecosystems -- Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Initiatives -- Enhancing the Resilience of Oasis Agrosystems to Climate Change in Morocco -- Climate Change and Agricultural production in Algeria -- Ready for climate change? An assessment of measures adopted by 45 Mediterranean coastal cities to face climate change -- Climate change or climate crisis? Investigating the views of forestry students on the causes, consequences and tools for the mitigation of climate change -- Development of a water security index incorporating future challenges.
    Abstract: This book serves the purpose of showcasing some of the works in respect of applied research, field projects, and best practice to foster climate change adaptation across the region. Climate change is having a much greater impact in the Mediterranean than the global average. In the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN member states pledged to stop global warming at well below two degrees, if possible at 1.5 degrees. This mark, which is expected elsewhere only for 2030 to 2050, has already been reached in the region. The situation could worsen in the coming years if the global community does not limit its emissions. The above state of affairs illustrates the need for a better and more holistic understanding of how climate change affects countries in the Mediterranean region on the one hand, but also on the many problems it faces on the other, which prevent adaptation efforts. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful examples of how to duly address and manage the many social, economic, and political problems posed by climate change in the region, in order to replicate and even upscale the successful approaches used. It is against this background that the book "Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region" has been produced. It contains papers prepared by scholars, practitioners, and members of governmental agencies, undertaking research and/or executing climate change projects, and working across the region.
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    Pages: IX, 527 p. 156 illus., 141 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030785666
    Series Statement: Climate Change Management,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78566-6
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    Advances in Geospatial Technology in Mining and Earth Sciences : Selected Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Geo-spatial Technologies and Earth Resources 2022 (2023)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Mining engineering. ; Underground construction. ; Geographic information systems. ; Mineralogy. ; Geology. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Mining and Exploration. ; Underground Engineering and Tunnel Construction. ; Geographical Information System. ; Mineralogy. ; Geology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: 202 Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveying and Mapping in Mines: A Review -- Chapter 2: 147 Traditional and Advanced Techniques for Extraction of Large Dimension Stone Blocks for Rock-cladding and Monumental Purposes -- Chapter 3: 017 Mining-induced Land Subsidence Detected by Persistent Scatterer InSAR: Case Study in Pniówek Coal Mine, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland -- Chapter 4: 156 Slope Stability Evaluation of Fenghuangshan Landfill Under Rainfall Condition: A Case Study -- Chapter 5: 117 Forecasting PM10 Concentration from Blasting Operations in Open-Pit Mines Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System -- Chapter 6: 066 Assessing the Effect of Open-pit Mining Activities and Urbanization on Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Concentration by Using Remote Sensing Imagery. A Case Study in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam -- Chapter 7: 016 Effect of Loading Frequency on the Liquefaction Resistance of Poorly Graded Sand -- Chapter 8: 144 An Automatic Method for Clay Minerals Extraction from Landsat 8 OLI Data. A Case Study in Chi Linh City, Hai Duong Province -- Chapter 9: 009 Evaluation of the Precision of SARAL/AltiKa and Sentinel-3A Satellite Altimetry Data over the Vietnam Sea and Its Surroundings -- Chapter 10: 070 Detection of GNSS-TEC Noise Related to the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Using Optimization Machine Learning Techniques and Integrated Data -- Chapter 11: 149 Stability of Road Embankments on Weak Soils -- Chapter 12: 053 Indirect Georeferencing in Terrestrial Laser Scanning: One-step and Two-step Approaches -- Chapter 13: 196 Technological Solutions for Fly Ash and Red Mud Upcycling Approach the Vietnam's Government Target of Net-zero Carbon By 2050 -- Chapter 14: 153 Pile-soil Interaction Mechanism and Optimization Measures Based on Finite Element Method -- Chapter 15: 055 Determination of Illegal Signs of Coal Mining Expansion in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam From a Combination of Radar and Optical Imagery Mine Production Tracking Platform and Its Initial Application in the Digital Transformation for a Vietnamese Coal Exploitation Company Chapter 21: 163 Shear Strength of Poorly Graded Granular Material in Multi-stage Direct Shear Test -- Chapter 22: 152 High–resolution Seismic Reflection Survey of Young Sediment at Can Gio Coast, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Chapter 23: 140 Analysis of Geological Structures by 2D Magnetotelluric Inversion in Bang Hot Spring Area, Quang Binh Province -- Chapter 24: 119 Physicochemical characteristics of the Middle Triassic Limestone in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam and the Ability of Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Environments -- Chapter 25: 159 Local Mechanical Behaviors of Steel Box Girder During Skew Incremental Launching -- Chapter 26: 094 GIS Applications in Land Adaptability Mapping for Perennial Industrial Crops in Nghe An Province -- Chapter 27: 083 Land-use and Land-cover Change Detection and Classification to Analyze Dynamics of Dragon Fruit Farming in Sand Dunes Area of Binh Thuan Province of Vietnam -- Chapter 28: 059 Random Forest Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change Using Sentinel-2 Data in Van Yen, Yen Bai Province -- Chapter 29: 155 Engineering Geological Problems of Foundation Pit Construction in Quaternary Strata: Taking Suzhou Area as An example Chapter 30: 034 Roof Condition Characteristics Affecting the Stability of Coal Pillars and Retained Roadway -- Chapter 31: 194 On the Flow Assurance for Un-Insulated Subsea Pipeline Systems: Application on the Multiphase Pipeline from Pearl Field to FPSO Ruby II Offshore Vietnam -- Chapter 32: 017 Detection of Underground Anomalies by Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar Attribute Combination -- Chapter 33: 157 Dynamic Failure Process of Soil Particles at the End of Shield Tunnel Based on Discrete Element -- Chapter 34: 205 Early Triassic Tectonic Evolution in the Northeastern Kontum Massif: New Constrains from the S-type Granite in Ba To Area, Quang Ngai Province, Central Vietnam -- Chapter 35: 035 Proposal of Study on InSAR-based Land Subsidence Analysis as Basis for Subsequent Hydro-mechanical Modeling: A Case Study of the Hanoi City, Vietnam.
    Abstract: This volume composes the proceedings of the international Conference on Geo-Spatial Technologies and Earth Resources (GTER 2022) which was co-organized by Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, and the International Society for Mine Surveying (ISM) held at Hanoi city on October 13–14, 2022. GTER 2022 is technically co-sponsored by Vietnam Mining Science and Technology Association (VMST), Vietnam Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (VGCR), Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (VINACOMIN), and the Dong Bac Corporation (NECO). GTER 2022 aims to bring together experts, researchers, engineers, and policymakers to discuss and exchange their knowledge and experiences in recent Geospatial technologies, advances in Mining and Earth Sciences.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031204630
    Series Statement: Environmental Science and Engineering,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20463-0
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    Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Risk Assessment and Management (2021)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Risk management. ; Industrial Management. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; IT Risk Management. ; Industrial Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Risk assessment: indicators and organizational models -- An integrated Bayesian BWM and classifiable TOPSIS model for risk assessment -- A modified risk prioritization approach using best-worst method -- Fuzzy Risk Assessment In the Presence of Uncertainties in Heterogeneous Preferences Elicitation and Reliability -- Assessment of COVID-19 transmission risk through fuzzy inference system; an application for mining activities -- Simulation Output Analysis for Risk Assessment and Mitigation -- Cause-Effect Analysis, Barriers Identification and Policy Implications for China’s Energy Security -- Quantitative Risk Assessment and Management of Cash-in-Transit Vehicle Routing Problems -- Mitigating Energy Supply Risks: Factors Identification and Pathway Selection for China’s Renewable Energy Development Fuzzy PROMETHEE -- Sustainability risks of resource-exhausted cities in China: A principal component analysis.
    Abstract: This book provides in-depth guidance on how to use multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and risk management. The frontiers of engineering operations management methods for identifying the risks, investigating their roles, analyzing the complex cause-effect relationships, and proposing countermeasures for risk mitigation are presented in this book. There is a total of ten chapters, mainly including the indicators and organizational models for risk assessment, the integrated Bayesian Best-Worst method and classifiable TOPSIS model for risk assessment, new risk prioritization model, fuzzy risk assessment under uncertainties, assessment of COVID-19 transmission risk based on fuzzy inference system, risk assessment and mitigation based on simulation output analysis, energy supply risk analysis, risk assessment and management in cash-in-transit vehicle routing problems, and sustainability risks of resource-exhausted cities. The most significant feature of this book is that it provides various systematic multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and management, and illustrates the application of these methods in different fields. This book is beneficial to policymakers, decision-makers, experts, researchers and students related to risk assessment and management.
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    Pages: VIII, 252 p. 53 illus., 36 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030781521
    Series Statement: Industrial Ecology and Environmental Management, 1
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78152-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78152-1
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    The Geography of Serbia : Nature, People, Economy (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Physical geography. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Human geography. ; Economic development. ; Economic history. ; Regional Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Human Geography. ; Development Studies. ; Economy-wide Country Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Historical and Geopolitical Context (edited by Emilija Manić and Vladimir Nikitović) -- Chapter 1. Geographical Position of Serbia (Milutin Tadić, Emilija Manić) -- Chapter 2. Prehistory of Serbia: A Brief Review (Dušan Mihailović, Dragana Antonović, Aleksandar Kapuran) -- Chapter 3. Serbia: A Historical Survey (Radmila Pejić, Sofija Petković, Dejan Radičević) -- Chapter 4. Political Geography of Serbia: Territorial Organization and Government (Nebojša Vuković) -- Part II: Physical Geography (edited by Predrag Đurović) -- Chapter 5. Climate of Serbia (Boško Milovanović, Gorica Stanojević, Milan Radovanović) -- Chapter 6. Hydrological Characteristics of Serbia (Marko Urošev, Ana Milanović Pešić, Jelena Kovačević–Majkić, Dragoljub Štrbac) -- Chapter 7. Geomorphological Characteristics of Serbia (Predrag Djurović) -- Chapter 8. Biogeographical Characteristics of the Territory of Serbia: Richness and Spatial Distribution of Biodiversity, Endemism and Biogeographical Regionalization (Vladimir B. Stevanović) -- Chapter 9. Geohazards and Geoheritage (Ivan Novković, Slavoljub Dragićević, Mirela Djurović) -- Part III: Demography (edited by Vladimir Nikitović) -- Chapter 10. Demographic Profile of Serbia at the Turn of the Millennia (Daniela Arsenović, Vladimir Nikitović) -- Chapter 11. Demographic Challenges in Serbia (Mirjana Rašević, Marko Galjak) -- Chapter 12. Migration and Mobility Patterns in Serbia (Vesna Lukić) -- Chapter 13. Approaching Regional Depopulation in Serbia (Vladimir Nikitović) -- Part IV: Economy (edited by Emilija Manić) -- Chapter 14. Serbian Economy – History, Transition and Present (Đorđe Mitrović) -- Chapter 15. Agriculture in Serbia (Žaklina Stojanović) -- Chapter 16. Natural Resources and Manufacturing Sector (Emilija Manić, Milena Lutovac) -- Chapter 17. Transport Sector in Serbia (Ivan Ratkaj) -- Chapter 18. Services: Finance, Trade and Tourism (Svetlana Popović, Dragan Stojković, Radmila Jovanović) -- Chapter 19. Serbia Internationally: International Trade and Integrations (Predrag Bjelić, Ivana Popović Petrović). Part V: Regional Development and Specificities (edited by Vladimir Nikitović and Emilija Manić) -- Chapter 20. Environmental Issues in Serbia: The Pollution and Nature Conservation (Vladimir Stojanović, Milana Pantelić, Stevan Savić) -- Chapter 21. Development Challenges Faced by Cities in Serbia (Nikola Krunić, Aleksandra Gajić, Dragutin Tošić) -- Chapter 22. Rural Areas and Rural Economy in Serbia (Marija Drobnjaković, Žaklina Stojanović, Sonja Josipović) -- Chapter 23. Regional Disparities in Serbia (Dejan Molnar) -- Index.
    Abstract: The book offers a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe. The book provides an overall view on the Serbian physical environment, its population and economy. It also highlights important regional issues such as regional disparities and depopulation, sustainable development and ecological issues and rural economy in the context of rural area development, which have been shaped by different political and historical processes. This highly illustrated book provides interesting and informative insights into Serbia and its context within the Balkans and Europe. It appeals to scientists and students as well as travelers and general readers interested in this region.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030747015
    Series Statement: World Regional Geography Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74701-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74701-5
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    Climate Adaptation Modelling (2022)
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    Keywords: Climatology. ; Natural disasters. ; Ecology Methodology. ; Bioclimatology. ; Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Climate Sciences. ; Natural Hazards. ; Ecological Modelling. ; Climate Change Ecology. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction from DG-CLIMA -- Introduction from the Editors -- Challenges for adaptation modelling -- Hazard, exposure and vulnerability modelling -- Sectoral models for impact and adaptation assessment -- Adaptation modelling and policy action -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation modelling, integrated with main results from the “Study on Adaptation Modelling” (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and implemented by the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Deltares, and Paul Watkiss Associates (PWA). What is the latest development in adaptation modelling? Which tools and information are available for adaptation assessment? How much are they practically usable by the policy community? How their uptake by practitioners can be improved? What are the major research gaps in adaptation modelling that needs to be covered in the next future? How? This book addresses these questions presenting the results of a study on adaptation modelling commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) enriched by the outcomes of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation also part of the research. This book aspires to provide a useful support to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field of adaptation to orient them in the expanding adaptation modelling assessment literature and suggest practical ways for its application. This book, mainly addressed to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field of adaptation, aims to providing orientation in the large and expanding methodological/quantitative literature, presenting novelties, guiding in the practical application of adaptation assessments and suggesting lines for future research. .
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    Pages: XVII, 238 p. 49 illus., 46 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030862114
    Series Statement: Springer Climate,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86211-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86211-4
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    Heritage and the Sea : Volume 1: Maritime History and Archaeology of the Global Iberian World (15th-18th centuries) (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Underwater archaeology. ; Geographic information systems. ; Cultural property. ; Archaeology. ; Anthropology. ; Geography. ; Maritime Archaeology. ; Geographical Information System. ; Archaeology and Heritage. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Remains of the shipwreck: an introduction to the Iberian maritime and underwater landscape -- Chapter2. A paradigm of inter and multidisciplinary research: The ForSEAdiscovery project as a case study -- Chapter3. Life and Death in the Spanish Carrera de Indias: ships, merchants, cargoes and routes -- Chapter4. Iberian Ships of the Early Modern Period -- Chapter5. Ship Types in Portugal -- Chapter6. The Iberian Peninsula between two Seas: Shipbuilding Revolution in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, 14th–15th centuries -- Chapter7. An insight into Mediterranean naval architecture in the 16th century through the texts of Nicolò Sagri (1538–1571). A comparative perspective with Ibero-Atlantic shipbuilding -- Chapter8. From the Baltic Sea to Andalusia: North European timber (and traders) in 16th-century Seville -- Chapter9. Supplying timber for His Majesty’s fleets: forest resources and maritime struggle in Portugal (1621–1634) -- Chapter10. Historical Documents as sources for the study of shipbuilding in Spain -- Chapter11. Iberian Documents and Treaties on shipbuilding -- Chapter12. Maritime vocabulary in texts: Fray Joseph de Ledesma (1701) -- Chapter13. GIS application on 16th-18th centuries Iberian Shipwrecks.
    Abstract: This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources (especially timber), mostly oak (Quercus spp.) and Pine (Pinus spp.). The chapters are framed in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary line of research that integrates history, Geographic Information Sciences, underwater archaeology, dendrochronology and wood provenance techniques. This line of research was developed during the ForSEAdiscovery project, which had a great impact in the academic and scientific world and brought together experts from Europe and America. The volumes deliver a state-of-the-art review of the latest lines of research related to Iberian maritime history and archaeology and their developing interdisciplinary interaction with dendroarchaeology. This synthesis combines an analysis of historical sources, the systematic study of wreck-remains and material culture related to Iberian seafaring from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and the application of earth sciences, including dendrochronology. The set can be used as a manual or work guide for experts and students, and will also be an interesting read for non-experts interested in the subject. Volume 1 focuses on the history and archaeology of seafaring and shipbuilding in the Iberian early modern world, complemented by case studies on timber trade and supply for shipbuilding, analysis of shipbuilding treatises, and the application of Geographic Information Systems and Databases (GIS) to the study of shipwrecks.
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    Pages: IX, 373 p. 22 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030864606
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86460-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86460-6
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    Form, Space and Design : From the Persian to the European Experience (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Aesthetics. ; Cities and towns History. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Human Geography. ; Aesthetics. ; Urban History. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Origin and Continuity -- Chapter 2. Flowing spaces, Flowing forms -- Chapter 3. Urban space, a comparative look -- Chapter 4. The concept of space, aesthetic aspects -- Chapter 5. Design of urban block -- Chapter 6. Lesson.
    Abstract: This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. It can be considered a guide to design, presenting qualitative criteria to satisfy practical needs. The subject is explored through interconnected chapters, each addressing an important aspect of form-space and design values, knowledge and our present problems. In this book the interpretation is artistic and socio-cultural. Discussion is not concentrated on singular urban space but on interrelated spaces and elements across the city, and complexes. Considering the comparative aspects of study, the reader will notice that despite cultural differences, there is a common understanding in artistic creativity and sensibility in the presented examples.
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    Pages: XVI, 138 p. 103 illus., 22 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030158316
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15831-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15831-6
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    Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain (2020)
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Geography. ; Religion and sociology. ; Political sociology. ; Urban Sociology. ; Population and Demography. ; Regional Geography. ; Sociology of Religion. ; Political Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Haredi Jews in the UK -- Chapter 3. Measurement of the Jewish population in the UK -- Chapter 4. The Litvish world -- Chapter 5. The Hasidic world -- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusion.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The research reveals and analyses powerful mechanisms of residential segregation acting at the apartment-, building- and near-neighbourhood levels. Identifying the main engines of spontaneous and organised neighbourhood change and evaluating the difficulties of liberalism dealing with non-autonomous individuals in the housing market sheds light on similar processes occurring in other city centres with diverse population groups. Highlighting the impact of various organisational levels on the spatial structure of the urban enclave, the book focuses on the internal dynamics of ethno-religious enclaves that emerge from three levels of action: (1) individuals' relationships with their own and other groups; (2) the community leadership's powers within the group and in respect of other groups; and (3) government directives and tools (e.g planning). The study examines how different levels of communal organisation are reflected in the residential patterns of four British communities: the Litvish communities of Golders Green and Gateshead, and the Hassidic communities of Stamford Hill and Canvey Island.
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    Pages: XIII, 154 p. 32 illus., 27 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030258580
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25858-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25858-0
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    Inventing Berlin : Architecture, Politics and Cultural Memory in the New/Old German Capital Post-1989 (2020)
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Cities and towns History. ; Geography. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Collective memory. ; Urban Sociology. ; Urban History. ; Regional Geography. ; Regional Cultural Studies. ; Memory Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Spatial Symbolism and Politics -- The Politicization of Berlin’s Urban Landscape, 1945 – 1989 -- Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Consensus -- The Cultural Landscape of the Berliner Republic: Undoing the Socialist Past -- Putting It All Together: Spatial Symbolism, Cultural Memory, Nation-Building, and Berlin’s Urban Development after 1989 -- Conclusion: Current Outlook, Recent Developments and Wider Relevance.
    Abstract: This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period. The core of the book is made up of an analysis of built space changes in the eastern half of the city before and after the Berlin Wall, flanked by an introduction to the theoretical underpinnings of the topic and a wider interpretation of the events in Berlin in relation to other geographic and historical contexts. It furthermore offers an explanatory model for the phenomenon of the "symbolic foreigner" whereby former citizens of the GDR feel disenfranchised and excluded from today's German society. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and also appeals to a wider, non-academic audience with an interest in both cultural memory and Berlin.
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    Pages: XXIII, 197 p. 58 illus., 45 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030297183
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29718-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29718-3
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    Belgrade : The 21st Century Metropolis of Southeast Europe (2020)
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Cities and towns History. ; Geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Urban History. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history -- Chapter 2. Milena Vukmirovic -- Chapter 3. The rise and fall of New Belgrade with current developments in retrospect -- Chapter 4. Belgrade’s Waterfront revitalization -- Chapter 5. Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala district -- Chapter 6. Public Art in Belgrade -- Chapter 7. Pedestrian-friendly Belgrade -- Chapter 8. Belgrade’s development visions and aims.
    Abstract: This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first, entitled The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history, introduces the reader to the city, and is followed by a chapter on Belgrade’s urban plans through history. The book continues with a chapter on one of the major urban projects in the former Yugoslavia, the construction of New Belgrade, its development and results, entitled New Belgrade: from no man’s land to modern city. In turn, the following three chapters explore three dominant contemporary topics: Belgrade’s riverfront redevelopment; Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala; and Sustainable Belgrade. Expansion of the pedestrian zone in the city center. The book draws to a close with a chapter on Future predictions: South-Eastern European metropolis of the 21st century. This chapter in particular discusses large city projects and includes predictions about the city’s future.
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    Pages: XII, 308 p. 213 illus., 203 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030350703
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35070-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35070-3
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    Land Quality and Sustainable Urban Forms : Changing Landscapes and Socioeconomic Structures of European Cities (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Urban economics. ; Agricultural ecology. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Urban Economics. ; Agroecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Towards a sustainable use of land current policies coping with environmental degradation -- Mediterranean Europe, a fragile landscape -- Soil consumption and urban growth in Mediterranean Europe -- Preserving land quality in European metropolis -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality. The first part of the book is dedicated to the motivations and the theoretical premises from which the research originates, connected to the concept of land and those of sustainable urban form. The second part concerns the complex path towards a sustainable use of land, both in terms of institutional and regulatory measures, and in terms of knowledge and understanding of soil degradation processes. This research focuses on the Mediterranean area which is discussed in more detail in the third part. In this part of Europe we try to establish relationships between settlement dynamics and land quality: here fragile ecosystems are diffused both from a biological point of view. physical as well as socio-economic, here we find landscapes that are particularly sensitive to land degradation processes (subject to land degradation, considered the antipodes of land quality) and which in recent decades have been particularly affected by anthropic pressure. In the fourth part, an analysis is presented concerning 76 metropolitan areas representative of southern Europe. The methodology used in this analysis is based on the relationship that exists between soil sealing (or soil waterproofing) and land degradation (or land degradation) aimed at an interpretation, at the metropolitan scale, of how in southern Europe the pattern of Urbanization (compact, dispersive, intermediate) affects the land's ability to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities in a diversified way. In particular, the data on land quality and data on land use were considered together in order to analyze the processes of urban growth and the occupation of productive land for a very large area that includes Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and some parts of the Adriatic coast. There is still a long way to go, in terms of sharing, integration and definition of strategies aimed at achieving certain targets. A necessary and innovative look towards land quality could help to consider the protection of the soil as a whole, even at the planning level.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030947323
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94732-3
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    Beneath the Lines : Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; History. ; Political science. ; Human geography. ; Cartography. ; Geography. ; History. ; Political Science. ; Human Geography. ; Cartography. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Drawing the lines, knowing the borders. An overview of recent scholarship on boundary-making and modern regimes of territorialization -- Part I. Boundary Treaties and Joint Commissions: Theoretical Foundations and Praxis on the Ground -- 2. Modern State Sovereignty as Geometric Purification of Territory. Delimitation Theories and Practices in the 1864 Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Treaty -- 3. Delimitation of the Spanish-Portuguese Border and the Controversy over La Contienda -- 4.From a Line on a Map to Realities on the Ground. The French-German Joint Boundary Commission at Work (1871-1877) -- 5. Mexican Geographer Engineers and the Demarcation of Mexico's Borders -- Part II. Contesting the Naturalness of Borders. Cartographic Practices, Geographical Knowledge and Territorial Issues -- 6. Borders on Paper, Borders on the Ground. Boundary Commissions Under the Treaty of Madrid and Their Role in the Reinvention of the Rio de la Plata Frontier (1752-1759) -- 7. Rights of Use vs. Natural Boundary: Demarcation of the Iraty Forest Massif (Western Pyrenees, 17th-19th Centuries) 8. A Water Borderline Adrift Between France and Spain. The Bidasoa and the Bay of Higuer at the End of the 19th Century -- 9. Demarcation of the Border of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1913–1931): Chronicle of Failure -- Part III. Concluding Essay -- 10. Borders at the Global Turn.
    Abstract: This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood. Written by scholars from Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, the essays included in this volume provide a comparative international perspective on the processes of border formation, as well as an integrative approach that seeks to strengthen the links between renewed geo-historical studies and more contemporary-oriented border studies. The book is addressed to a wide range of researchers, including geographers, historians, political scientists and specialists in geopolitics and the history of international relations.
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    Pages: XII, 172 p. 35 illus., 27 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030969042
    Series Statement: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96904-2
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    Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Global Perspective (2022)
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Public health. ; Geography. ; Economic development. ; Governance and Government. ; Public Health. ; Regional Geography. ; Development Studies. ; Political Science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Local Government and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Introduction (Carlos Nunes Silva) -- PART I -- Chapter 2. Renaissance of Public Health as a Determining Factor of Urban Governance (Maria de Pilar Tellez Soler and Remy Sietchiping) -- Chapter 3. Local actions to combat COVID-19 crisis: Contextual insights into local institutional responses to COVID-19 in Europe and the United States (Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Arto Haveri) -- Chapter 4. Metropolises Overcoming the Covid-19 Pandemic: An urgent call for territorialising global agendas at sub-national levels (Rafael H. Forero and Remy Sietchiping) -- Chapter 5. The political economy of COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from the responses of local government in Sub-Saharan Africa (Matamanda et al.) -- PART II -- Chapter 6. German Local Authorities in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Challenges, impacts and adaptations (Jochen Franzke) -- Chapter 7. Momentum of Federalism? National, State, and Municipal Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany (Sascha Krannich) -- Chapter 8. Local Government response towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal (Carlos Nunes Silva) -- Chapter 9. Local Government response to COVID-19. Some insights from Spain (Ramon Galindo Caldés and Marc Vilalta Reixach) -- Chapter 10. Administrative boundaries and COVID-19. The case of Catalonia, Spain (Galindo Caldés et al.) -- Chapter 11. Covid-19 and multilevel territorial governance. Transcalar patterns, frictions of competencies and planning conflicts in Italy (Teresa Graziano) -- Chapter 12. Local and National Government response towards COVID-19 Pandemic in Lombardy, Italy (Sara Belotti) -- Chapter 13. The 2020 Pandemic Governance in Italy and Lombardy: Institutional Conflict in Health Emergency (Renzo Riboldazzi) -- Chapter 14. Reorganisation of businesses, processes and the development of policies for safely emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy (Anna Trono and Valentina Castronuovo) -- Chapter 15. Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece - A Joint Effort at the National and Urban Level (Stratigea et al) -- Chapter 16. Covid-19 Crisis Management in Croatia: The Contribution of Subnational Levels of Government (Dana Dobrić Jambrović) -- PART III -- Chapter 17. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local government units in Poland (Mariusz W. Sienkiewicz and Katarzyna Kuć-Czajkowska) -- Chapter 18. Presidential Elections in Poland during the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Unexpected Challenge for Political Actors and the Relationship between National Government and Local Government -- (Tomasz Kaczmarek and Łukasz Mikuła) -- Chapter 19. Local self-government and governance during Covid-19 pandemic in Slovakia (Ján Buček) -- Chapter 20. Anti- and post-COVID-19 measures taken by the Czech Government in relation to the spatial distribution of COVID-19 indicators (Paszto et al.) -- Chapter 21. The Role of Regional and Local Governance in Dealing with the Socioeconomic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia (Glezer et al.) -- PART IV -- Chapter 22. Local Governments in Networked Space: Changing social media networks of local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey (Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy et al.) -- Chapter 23. Jalisco versus COVID-19: Local governance and the response to the health, social, and economic emergency (Katia Magdalena Lozano Uvario and Rocio Rosales Ortega) -- Chapter 24. Local governments and the meanings of social distancing: Implementation deficiencies in the times of COVID-19 (Paulo Nascimento) -- Chapter 25. Small-scale farming and alternative food alliances in the context of COVID-19 crisis in Brazil (Felipe da Silva Machado) -- Chapter 26. The South African Local Government and Municipal Planning Responses to COVID-19 (Verna Nel and Martin Lewis) -- Chapter 27. The Impact of Covid-19 on Urban Form and Governance: Early Experiences from the City of Cape Town (Daniel J du Plessis) -- Chapter 28. Sub-national Political Culture and Covid-19 Pandemic: Governance Response towards Life and Livelihood Vulnerabilities of Urban Poor in India (Chatterji et al.) -- Chapter 29. Technological interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in India (Falguni Mukherjee) -- Chapter 30. End of the World: New Zealand’s local government and Covid-19 (Jeffrey McNeill and Andy Asquith). .
    Abstract: The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents. It examines the responses of local government, as well as the responses local government developed in articulation with other tiers of government and with civil society organizations, and explores the social, economic and policy impacts of the pandemic. The book offers an innovative contribution on the role of local government during the pandemic and discusses lessons for the future. The COVID-19 pandemic had a global impact on public health, in the well-being of citizens, in the economy, on civic life, in the provision of public services, and in the governance of cities and other human settlements, although in an uneven form across countries, cities and local communities. Cities and local governments have been acting decisively to apply the policy measures defined at national level to the specific local conditions. COVID-19 has exposed the inadequacy of the crisis response infrastructures and policies at both national and local levels in these countries as well as in many others across the world. But it also exposed much broader and deeper weaknesses that result from how societies are organized, namely the insecure life a substantial proportion of citizens have, as a result of economic and social policies followed in previous decades, which accentuated the impacts of the lockdown measures on employment, income, housing, among a myriad of other social dimensions. Besides the analysis of how governments, and local government, responded to the public health issues raised by the spread of the virus, the book deals also with the diversity of responses local governments have adopted and implemented in the countries, regions, cities and metropolitan areas. The analysis of these policy responses indicates that previously unthinkable policies can surprisingly be implemented at both national and local levels.
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    Pages: XXV, 795 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030911126
    Series Statement: Local and Urban Governance,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91112-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91112-6
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    The Geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina : Between East and West (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Physical geography. ; Geology. ; Economic geography. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Geology. ; Economic Geography. ; Population and Demography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Geographical Position, Borders And Size Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 1. Geographical Position, Spatial Coverage And Size Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 2. Borders Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Part II: Physical Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 3. Geology And Geotectonics Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 4. Geomorphology Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 5. Climatology Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 6. Hydrography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 7. Pedogeography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 8. Biogeography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Part III: Human Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 9. Historical Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 10. Political Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 11. Population Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 12. Urban And Rural Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Part IV: Economic Geography Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 13. Natural Resources Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 14. Economic Development Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Part V: Geographic Regions Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Chapter 15. Geographic Regionalization And Regions Of Bosnia And Herzegovina -- Index.
    Abstract: This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental scientific insights into the geographical features of a country which was and still is in the centre of the geopolitical battle of the large world powers and especially neighboring countries. The book presents the scientifically proven reserves of individual resources such as: mineral riches, land, forests, flora and fauna, water and climate features, to the extent needed, through statistical indicators and geographic maps. The authors point to features and specifics of the existing interdependence of economic and political development and impact of natural resources on spatial development which can be useful for potential investors, spatial planers, decision makers, politicians, geographers, students, large Bosnian diaspora and anyone interested in area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book fills the gap in geographical literature on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the English language. The monograph appeals to researchers and scholars of all levels in the fields of geography, geopolitics, history and related fields and everyone interested in this country between East and West.
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    Pages: XIV, 413 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030985233
    Series Statement: World Regional Geography Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98523-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98523-3
    DDC: 910.021
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    Disaster Management in the Complex Himalayan Terrains : Natural Hazard Management, Methodologies and Policy Implications (2022)
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    Keywords: Natural disasters. ; Geomorphology. ; Geography. ; Physical geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Natural Hazards. ; Geomorphology. ; Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Geographical Information System.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part-A: Introduction to the Disasters and Hazards in the Himalayan Terrains -- 1. Disasters in the Complex Himalayan Terrains -- 2. Hazards in the perspective of Himalayan Terrain: A review -- Part-B: Landslides in the Himalayas – Causes and Consequences -- 3. Himalayan Landslides – Causes and Evolution -- 4. Landslides in the Himalayas: Causes, Evolution, and Mitigation – A Case Study of National Highway 44, India -- 5. Geo-environmental Impact of Road Widening Project along the National Highway- 44A, Jammu & Kashmir, India -- Part-C: Floods in the Himalayas – Causes and Consequences -- 6. September 2014 floods in Kashmir Himalaya - Impacts and Mitigation Strategy -- 7. A review on the estimation of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Himalayan region using remote sensing and geographic information system -- 8. Impact of Floods on the Green Energy Sector in the Himalayas using remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) – A case study of Gagas Watershed, Uttarakhand, India -- Part-D: Earthquakes in the Himalayas – Assessment and Forecasting -- 9. Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Measure Earthquake Related Deformation: A Case Study from Nepal -- 10. Earthquake Forecasting in the Himalayas using Artificial Neural Networks -- Part-E: Hazard mitigation strategies in the Himalayas -- 11. Forest Fire Alert System of India with a Special Reference to Fire Vulnerability Assessment of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir -- 12. Hazard mitigation and climate change in the Himalayas – Policy and Decision making.
    Abstract: South Asia, harboring the complex Himalayan terrains, has over one-fifth of the world’s population and is recognized as the most hazard-prone region of the world. The exponential increase in population with the consequent pressure on natural resources and continued high rates of poverty and food insecurity also makes this region the most vulnerable region to hazards in the world as far as the impacts of climate change are concerned. Over the last century, the climatic trends in South-Asia have been observed to be characterized by increasing air temperatures and an increasing trend in the intensity and frequency of extreme events. IPCC (2014) has reported that the Himalayan highlands shall face significant warming over the next century. The increasing frequency of natural hazards due to the impacts of climate change in the Himalayas calls for efficient management and policymaking in these regions, which can only be implemented by the local governments through an established science-based robust action plan. This edited volume focuses on the management of natural hazards using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing. It contains chapters from eminent researchers and experts in the field of hazard management, remote sensing, and GIS. The primary focus of this book is to replenish the gap in the available literature on the subject by bringing the concepts, theories, and practical experiences of the specialists and professionals in this field together in one volume to help students, researchers, and policymakers to address issues concerning management and policy implications of natural hazards in the complex Himalayan region.
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    Pages: XI, 182 p. 76 illus., 65 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030893088
    Series Statement: Geography of the Physical Environment,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89308-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89308-8
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    The Southernmost End of South America Through Cartography : Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century (2021)
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    Keywords: Geographic information systems. ; Latin America History. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Economic geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Latin American History. ; Human Geography. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Economic Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The first territorial incorporation of the southern lands and seas in modern cartography -- Chapter 2. The cartographic construction of a South Atlantic region: geopolitical and economic interests -- Chapter 3. Southern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic lands within global strategies -- Chapter 4. Conclusions -- Sources and Bibliography.
    Abstract: This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the “Terra Australis” continent. Different spatial representations and territorial nature coexisted in this process as a result of the spatial interpretation and value modes as well as the projects and strategies of various actors. The book discusses the formal and symbolic incorporation to the Spanish dominion and its inclusion in the imperial design built over a new image of the world. Examining Jesuit cartography it considers both the indigenous territoriality and the dynamics of relations between natural and social components in the continental hinterland. The process of cartographic differentiation for this southern Atlantic region is analyzed in the framework of early Antarctic exploration and competing use of navigation routes and maritime resources. The book emphasizes the role geopolitical and economic interests play in these developments. The formation of territorialities of various origins has particular contents and logic, which are built upon imaginary subordination to political and economic interests. Cartographic language in the 19th century, associated with political and commercial motivations and the (British) imperial ideology, stimulated the territorial expansion. The book argues why in the late 1800's this was an important factor in the integration process of the southern indigenous territories and the national territoriality.
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    Pages: VIII, 180 p. 66 illus., 61 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030658793
    Series Statement: The Latin American Studies Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65879-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65879-3
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    Building a Compact City : Spatial Planning in Yinchuan City, Western China (2022)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The compact city in a local area -- Chapter 3. Chinese spatial planning and management system -- Chapter 4. Rapid growing cities in western China – the case study of Yinchuan -- Chapter 5. Urban planning and urban expansion control -- Chapter 6. Public programs and housing developments -- Chapter 7. Specific zoning and land use pattern -- Chapter 8. Build a compact city in inland China -challenges and opportunities.
    Abstract: This book serves as a solid ground for seeking strategies to build the compact city that situated in a specific local area, based on the systematic examination of the effects of spatial planning system on urbanization control. Furthermore, the critical problems in the urban planning process are revealed, and the possible approaches to improve the local planning system toward effectively promoting more compact development are discussed. This book also provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the mutual influences between the planning, its implementation, and urban developments, particularly in the context of cities of western China, while these cities are experiencing dramatic urban growth in recent years but walking into a quite different development path comparing to the eastern mega cities. In nearly two decades, government officials, professional planners, scholars of urban studies, citizens who concern sustainable development are talking about the compact city, a promising vision for sustaining our growing or shrinking cities. Abundance of debates fall on the images, measurement and strengths of the compact city, while the substantializing of the vision in a specific city has been barely explored.
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    Pages: XV, 126 p. 51 illus., 35 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030912826
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91282-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91282-6
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    Sustainable Renovation of Buildings : Building Information Modelling (2022)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Environmental engineering. ; Biotechnology. ; Bioremediation. ; Sustainable architecture. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Operations research. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. ; Urban Ecology. ; Operations Research and Decision Theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Sustainable renovation of buildings and methodologies to quantify environmental and economic impact -- Chapter 2. Spanish regulations and European standardization: Driving transformation -- Chapter 3. Methods -- Chapter 4. Method application -- Appendix.
    Abstract: The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus —by means of direct aids— and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions. Nowadays, BIM models let us integrate multiple quantitative parameters that can agile the information to interchange between stakeholders. Using this potential to standardize protocols of interventions and share knowledge is necessary to face a high scale intervention that our cities need. Climatic Emergency and socioeconomic crisis caused by recent events —COVID-19 and hydrocarbons crisis— are the two principal struggles we face as society. European Politics, embodied by National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) developed by each region give the way to the green transition of different productive sectors. Our building stock is responsible for approximately 36% of the CO2 emissions in the European Union. For this reason, these policies focus a large part of their efforts on economically incentivizing a new development model for the building sector that is committed to the large-scale renovation of the existing real estate stock and that, through the reduction of energy demand and of emissions, manage to reduce the environmental impact of these. Next Generation EU is the new recovery instrument that aims to mobilize investments towards strategic sectors for the reorientation of the production model that, among other measures, contributes to decarbonization through the promotion of energy efficiency and the deployment of renewable energies.
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    Pages: XII, 104 p. 8 illus., 7 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031151439
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15143-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15143-9
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    Maps of Quality of Life in Argentina Since the 19th Century (2022)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Well-being. ; Cartography. ; Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Well-Being. ; Cartography. ; Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Inequality As A Historical Problem. The Pre-Statistical Stage(Daniel Santilli) -- Chapter 2. Quality Of Life In Argentina In The First National Census (1869)(Guillermo Velázquez, Hernán Otero) -- Chapter 3. Quality Of Life By Departments And Regions In Argentina At The End Of The 19th. Century(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 4. Quality Of Life In Argentina. Analysis From The Third National Census (1914)(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 5. Quality Of Life In Argentina. Analysis From The Fourth National Census (1947)(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín, Fernando Ariel Manzano) -- Chapter 6. Quality Of Life In Argentina In 1960(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 7. Quality Of Life In Argentina (1970)(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 8. Quality Of Life In Argentina (1980)(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 9. Quality Of Life And Fragmentation In The Argentina Of The Nineties(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín) -- Chapter 10. Quality Of Life In Argentina In 2001(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín, Sebastián Gómez Lende, Fernando Manzano, María Eugenia Arias) -- Chapter 11. Quality Of Life In Argentina In 2010(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín, Sebastián Gómez Lende, Fernando Manzano, Claudia Mikkelsen, María Eugenia Arias) -- Chapter 12. Quality Of Life Differentiating Factors: Migratory Dynamics, Entrality/Accessibility, Urban Categories And Geographic Gross Product(Guillermo Velázquez, Santiago Linares) -- Chapter 13. Geography And Quality Of Life In Argentina. Analysis According To Census Radius (2010)(Guillermo Velázquez, Juan Pablo Celemín, Santiago Linares, Adela Tisnés, Fernando Manzano, Claudia Mikkelsen, Lorena La Maccchia, María Eugenia Arias) -- Chapter 14. The Well-Being Of Rural Population Of Argentina(Claudia Mikkelsen, Sofía Ares, Matías Gordziejczuk, Natasha Picone, Mariana Bruno).
    Abstract: The book is presented as an Atlas where the map plays a fundamental role in the study of quality of life as it shows its progression in Argentina from the 19th to the 21st Century. In the book, it can be observed how the concept has evolved along with the dimensions and variables that better represent its spatial distribution. This is one of the original points of the book: the temporal study of the living conditions of the argentine population, empirically and spatially, emphasizing their territorial representation. Although the book maintains the same socioeconomic dimensions (education, health and housing), the tour through the different chapters offers a historical window that allows the reader to know what the forms of information collection were like in different historical moments. This book is written for geographers and members of the scientific community interested in the study of the well-being of the population. It also allows us to observe the evolution of the quality of life from the 19th century to the 21st, so it may be of interest to historians as well.
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    Pages: XVIII, 400 p. 148 illus., 146 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031152627
    Series Statement: The Latin American Studies Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15262-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15262-7
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    Cyclones in Southern Africa : Volume 3: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Earth sciences. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Natural disasters. ; Geography. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Environmental Monitoring. ; Natural Hazards.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part1. Introduction and background -- Chapter1. Linking the impacts of tropical cyclones to the Sustainable Development Goals -- Part2. A Focus on Agriculture and Public Health -- Chapter2. Impacts of tropical cyclone Idai on cash crops agriculture in Zimbabwe -- Chapter3. A comparative study of flooding on food security of urban and rural households in Blantyre City and Chikwawa, Malawi -- Chapter4. Assessment of Cyclone Idai floods on local food systems and disaster management responses in Mozambique and Zimbabwe -- Chapter5. Impacts of Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth on Public Health in Southern Africa -- Chapter6. Perspectives on safeguarding children in sustainable disaster mitigation in Zimbabwe -- Part3. Education, Water and Sanitation and Livelihoods -- Chapter7. Impacts of cyclone Idai and the road to recovery in education systems in Zimbabwe -- Chapter8. The Water Sanitation and Hygiene Perspective in Response to Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe -- Chapter9. Struggles of Cyclone Idai floods survivors inhabiting spaces of vulnerability and reconstructing their fractured livelihoods -- Chapter10. The Reconstruction of Livelihoods by Survivors of Cyclone Idai in the Chimanimani District of Zimbabwe -- Part4. A Focus on Infrastructure and Settlement -- Chapter11. Planning for climate and cyclone resilient transport infrastructures in southern Africa: Lessons from Zimbabwe -- Chapter12. Impacts of Cyclone Idai on Human Settlements in Zimbabwe -- Chapter13. Social and physical vulnerability of settlements to hydro-climatic induced disasters: Lessons from Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe -- Part5. Natural Resources, Oceans, Tourism and Other Losses -- Chapter14. The Impact of Cyclone Idai on natural and plantation forests in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe -- Chapter15. Impact of Cyclone Idai on biodiversity and natural resources in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe -- Chapter16. Impact of tropical cyclone Idai on tourism attractions and related infrastructure in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe -- Chapter17. Evidence of the impact of cyclones and floods on biodiversity and wildlife resources in Southern Africa -- Chapter18. Impact of cyclones and floods on seagrass habitats -- Chapter19. Economic Losses from Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, and Floods in southern Africa: Implications on Sustainable Development Goals -- Part6. The Policy Space -- Chapter20. Emerging Key Findings, Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.
    Abstract: Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. This focus has been magnified by the need to consider tropical cyclones in the context of other global development agendas, that includes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its inseparable 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda. The ambitious SDGs challenge global and community leaders to make sure development addresses the nexus among poverty, inequality and employment creation, as well as care for the earth and its natural resources and biodiversity. The SDGs further present an agenda to eradicate hunger, bring quality education and sustain water and sanitation. The infrastructure development, human settlements, sustainable consumption and production, climate change, biodiversity and the ocean (blue) economy agendas are also pitched. Lastly, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encourages partnerships on delivering various programmes and projects at all spatial levels. However, as tropical cyclones continue to make multiple landfalls and ravage Southern Africa and other parts of the world, the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is threatened. To this end, this book addresses this gap by documenting the implications of tropical cyclones, drawing examples and case studies from recent tropical cyclones such as cyclone Idai and cyclone Kenneth that resulted in catastrophic impacts in 2019. The book comes as part of a series with three volumes. The other volumes include “Cyclones in Southern Africa Vol. 1: Interfacing the Catastrophic Impact of Cyclone Idai with SDGs in Zimbabwe” and “Cyclones in Southern Africa Vol 2: Foundational and Fundamental Topics”. Given the foregoing, the book is suitable as a read for several professionals and disciplines such as tourism and hospitality studies, economics, sustainable development, development studies, environmental sciences, arts, geography, life sciences, politics, planning and public health.
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    Pages: XXVI, 322 p. 83 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030743031
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74303-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74303-1
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    The Geography of Albania : Problems and Perspectives (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Geology. ; Physical geography. ; Economic geography. ; Human geography. ; Geography. ; Geology. ; Regional Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Economic Geography. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I - INTRODUCTION, POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, ETHNIC GROUPS AND RELIGIONS -- Introduction -- I.1. General geographical features of Albania -- I.2. Historical and Political Geography -- I.3. Ethnic Groups and Religions -- I.3.2. Religions -- PART II - LANDSCAPE OF ALBANIA -- II.1. Geological construction -- II.2. The relief -- II.3. Climate -- II.4. Waters -- II.5. Soils -- II.6. Flora and fauna -- II.7. Albanian natural and cultural heritage -- PART III - DEMOGRAPHICS -- III.2. Sociocultural features -- III.2. Sociocultural features -- PART IV - THE ECONOMY -- PART V - GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS -- INDEX.
    Abstract: This book is one of the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Albania in English. It highlights the most important and manifold potentials of nature, society and economy of Albania as well as development problems during different time periods. One focus lies on Albania's perspectives and challenges for the future. Beside natural aspects also topics such as migration, poverty, social situation, economy, urban development, regional disparities among others are discussed. This book appeals to academics and researchers of geography, regional development and related disciplines as well as teachers and students of geography, geology, natural sciences, social sciences, economics. The book is also attractive for media representatives, tourists and other interested individuals travelling to Albania.
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    Pages: XXIV, 255 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030855512
    Series Statement: World Regional Geography Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85551-2
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    Urban Metabolism and Climate Change : Perspective for Sustainable Cities (2023)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Environment. ; Sustainability. ; Climatology. ; Social sciences. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Sustainability. ; Climate Sciences. ; Society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Urban Metabolism and Global Climate Change: An overview -- Interlinkages between Urban Metabolism and Sustainability: An overview -- Urban Metabolism - An Analytical approach for enhancing resilience -- Urban metabolism to understand changes in urban ecology: a case of Bengaluru -- City core and Urban sprawl -- Adaptive reuse of historic buildings: an ecological indicator -- Integrating ecological and social concepts for urban metabolism studies -- Sustainable urban metabolism and urban planning -- Urban metabolism in the circular bio-economy of tomorrow -- Closing the Urban Waste Loop: Delivering Environmental and Financial Sustainability -- Transitioning Urban Agriculture to a Circular Metabolism at a Neighbourhood Level -- Eight years to go, to meet the SDG targets: Waste management as enabler and enabled -- Emerging approaches for sustainable urban metabolism -- Species Selection in Urban Forestry - towards Urban Metabolism -- Geospatial analyses for urban metabolism and climate change work -- Smart Urban Metabolism: A Big-data and Machine Learning Perspective -- Policy initiatives on urban metabolism in Ghana (2002-2021). .
    Abstract: This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate change. Different patterns of urbanization contribute to the changing climate via. differences in their urban metabolism represented by energy and matter. Urban metabolic studies in terms of energy and material inflows, outflows, and stocks can be associated with traditional evaluation techniques to help assess the magnitude and potential effects of variety of environmental challenges the world is facing today. Urban centres are critical real time observatories that indicate the impact anthropogenic activities have on global biogeochemical cycles. Urban processes have significant and lasting impacts on the global carbon budget. The technological and infrastructural advancements have fuelled an increase in urban inputs and outputs of material and energy. Therefore, more sustainable approaches need to be adopted in changing scenarios for urban planning, particularly for sustainable resource utilization and better waste management practices. The book emphasises on the sustainability in urban metabolism, sustainable urban planning, ecosystem services, and disaster resilience to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of urban metabolism. The book also identifies an urgent need to develop new methodological approaches for real time and reliable evaluation of urban metabolism.
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    Pages: XIV, 363 p. 69 illus., 64 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031294228
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29422-8
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    Geographical Scale and Economic Development : Lessons Learned from Texas and Mexico (2023)
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    Keywords: Economic geography. ; Economic history. ; Human geography. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Environmental economics. ; International business enterprises. ; Economic Geography. ; Economy-wide Country Studies. ; Human Geography. ; Tourism Management. ; Environmental Economics. ; International Business.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Background to Case Studies in Geographical Scale and Economic Development -- Chapter 2. Binational Trade and Economic Development: U.S.-Mexico Steel Trade Since 1940 -- Chapter 3. Inland Ports of Mexico and the Geography of Intermodal Shipping -- Chapter 4. Ports-To-Plains: A Case Study in Cargo Transport Infrastructure Policy and Planning -- Chapter 5. Case Studies in Freight Transport Geography: Four West Texas Industrial Rail Facilities -- Chapter 6. Victoria and Brownsville: Regional Transportation and the Development of Two South Texas Maritime Ports -- Chapter 7. Economic Development, Land Use, and Commercial Transportation in Two Small Cities of South Texas: Beeville and Gonzales -- Chapter 8. Small-City Economic Development in Southwest Texas: Uvalde and Sonora -- Chapter 9. Geography and Economic Development: Lessons Learned.
    Abstract: This book is an attempt to bridge the academic discipline of economic geography with the professional field of economic development. Through case studies of economic development, it illustrates two fundamental concepts of the sub-discipline of economic geography: scale and spatial connections. It demonstrates some of the ways that economic development policies and plans are linked globally, nationally, regionally, and locally. It ties together several studies of communities and transportation systems in Texas and Mexico carried out from the late 2010’s through 2021. The studies shed light on the need to study economic development at multiple scales and to do so through blended qualitative research methods that include conversations with economic development stakeholders, published data, news content from the business and trade media, and direct observation of the built environment. The book is a set of narratives that combine descriptions of the evolution of commercial transportation systems, economic promotion in selected communities, and corresponding changes in the built environment. It is organized into three sections, each of which corresponds to a different scale at which economic development functions: macro, regional, and local. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031361975
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36197-5
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    Soil Health and Environmental Sustainability : Application of Geospatial Technology (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Soil science. ; Agriculture. ; Ecology . ; Geography. ; Soil Science. ; Agriculture. ; Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Application of RS-GIS-R for soil-land resources assessment, monitoring, and modelling -- Assessment of soil health and monitoring -- Soil and sediments pollution -- Microbiology of Soil and Sediments -- Soil Salinity and Sodicity -- Soil erosion and contamination from agricultural activities -- Digital soil mapping and carbon stock modelling -- Soil degradation and Risk assessment -- Agricultural Soil Pollution -- Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination -- Environmental Pollution of Soil and Anthropogenic Impact -- Soil pollution by industrial effluents and solid wastes -- Environmental impact and risk assessment -- Open source satellite data and GIS for soil resources mapping and monitoring -- Bioremediation in soil resources management and land use planning.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring, mapping and modelling of soil pollution and land resources. This book explores state-of-the-art techniques based on open sources software & R statistical programming and modelling in modern geo-computation techniques specifically focusing on the recent trends in data mining/machine learning techniques and robust modelling in soil resources. Soil and agricultural systems are an integral part of the global environment and human well‐being, providing multiple goods and services essential for people worldwide and crucial for sustainable development. Soil contamination is an environmental hazard and has become a big issue related to environmental health. The challenge of the twenty-first century is to reduce the contaminant load and bring it to below permissible level. The contamination is not only a problem affecting local environments at the place of occurrence but also spreading to other regions because of easy transportation of pollutants. This leads to direct and indirect contamination of land and aquatic systems, surface water and groundwater, inducing significant risks for natural ecosystems. In this context, the spatial modelling, prediction, efficient use, risk assessment, protection and management of soil resources in the agriculture system are the key to achieving sustainable development goals and ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmental sustainability future. The aim of this book on soil contaminants and environmental health: application of geospatial technology is to identify the soil and sediment quality, sources of contaminants and risk assessment and focuses on the decision-making and planning point of view through GIS data management techniques. This book covers major topics such as spatial modelling in soil and sediments pollution and remediation; radioactive wastes, microbiology of soil and sediments, soil salinity and sodicity, pollution from landfill sites, soil erosion and contamination from agricultural activities, heavy metal pollution and health risk; environmental impact and risk assessment, sustainable land use, landscape management and governance, soil degradation and risk assessment, agricultural soil pollution, pollution due to urban activities, soil pollution by industrial effluents and solid wastes, pollution control and mitigation in extreme environments. The content of this book is of interest to researchers, professionals and policy-makers whose work is in soil science and agriculture practices. The book equips with the knowledge and skills to tackle a wide range of issues manifested in geographic data, including those with scientific, societal and environmental implications.
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    Pages: XXIV, 729 p. 208 illus., 188 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031092701
    Series Statement: Environmental Science and Engineering,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09270-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09270-1
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    Adolescent Health in the Middle East and North Africa : An Epidemiological Perspective (2022)
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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. .
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    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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    Re-visioning Geography : Supporting the SDGs in the post-COVID era (2023)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Space in economics. ; Sustainability. ; Development economics. ; Education. ; Geography. ; Spatial Economics. ; Sustainability. ; Development Economics. ; Education.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 Geospatial technologies -- The effect of an open educational resource (OER) on student teachers‘ abilities to diagnose students‘ written argumentation skills -- Development of the Online Geospatial Problem-Solving Instrument: Investigating Elementary Students’ perceptual processes in geospatial problem-solving. -- A Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure for the Aegean Archipelago -- A Virtual Window to the World: Using Story Maps for SDG Visibility and Environmental Educatio -- Education for sustainable water consumption in multinational collaboration teachers training: Goals and Challenges -- Connecting Literature and Web Maps: Hungarian writers and poets online -- Part 2: Education, Geography and new Geospatial technologies and tools -- Teaching Geography with a Web GIS Approach -- Education for Sustainability Using Cloud-based Geographic Information Systems at University -- Comparative Dimensions of teaching Geography & History in Austria and in Israel, Migration of Vienna Jewry during the 1930s -- Geographiic Education for the Promotion of Spatial Citizenship: Collaborrative Mapping for Learning About the Local Environment in a Global Context -- Part 3: COVID-19 and post-COVID -19 -- The Art of Geographical Analysis of Covid-19 Related Data -- Development of a Synthetic Index of Social Vulnerability to Covid-19 in the City of Zaragoza (Spain) -- Students’ Satisfaction with Synchronous Online Learning in Times of COVID-19: A Case Study of Greek Geography Students -- Can Climate Crisis Go Viral? A Review of Climate Change Communication Lessons in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Towards a EU’s Sustainable and Humane Border Regime -- Part 4: Gepspatial technologies and application in agriculture -- Pest Management with Precision Farming Tools: the Case of the Olive Fly (Bactrocera Oleae) -- Sustainable Networking Solutions in Remote IoT Environments: Use Cases, Challenges and Solutions for Smart Agriculture.
    Abstract: Geography is a discipline with a profound interdisciplinary character focusing on studying the complex interactions between nature and society. Geography can advance the level of knowledge and awareness and provide important contributions to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. This book explores some of these issues, while also disseminating and supporting the efforts of geographers worldwide to promote the implementation of the SDGs. It offers local and global perspectives to a variety of topics covered by the SDGs, such as: How do different actors such as universities, companies and education actors respond to Sustainable Development Goals, especially during the complex context of the COVID pandemic? What is the role of novel spatial technologies and open/big data in achieving SDGs and how can Geography assist? How are new eco-social challenges positioned in a post-pandemic global change? What are novel educational contexts and resources that can be used to transform society toward sustainability of socioecological systems? What conceptual frameworks and strategies can contribute to the construction of societies based on human welfare and the care of nature? This book is focused on innovative sustainability-oriented geographical research on the above (and more) topics that explore the diverse social, environmental, economic and cultural contexts at various spatial scales. It also includes chapters that report on geographical education initiatives in schools and universities, the implication of geographers in community-based learning and increasing community's awareness in terms of environment, climate change and sustainable development as well as chapters that make use of geospatial technologies (e.g., remote sensing, GIS, etc.) both in geographical research and education for sustainable development are particularly relevant for the book.
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    Pages: VII, 325 p. 93 illus., 86 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031407475
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40747-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40747-5
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    Smart Geography : 100 Years of the Bulgarian Geographical Society (2020)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Landscape ecology. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Data mining. ; Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Landscape Ecology. ; Urban Sociology. ; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
    Description / Table of Contents: Smart Geography: 100th Years Bulgarian Geographical Society -- Part I: Towards Smart Geography -- BGS and the Contemporary Progress of the Geographical Science Towards Smart Geography -- Smart Geographies and the Political Economy of Innovation and Inequality -- Evaluate Turkey's Climate Classification by Clustering Analysis Method.
    Abstract: This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. It includes contributions from a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Geographical Society. In turn, the book reveals how 21st-century geography is expected to facilitate the development of human capital and the knowledge society, while also offering place-specific solutions for sustainable regional development and utilization of the planet’s natural and human capital to improve social wellbeing. This volume is intended for the global geographical research community, as well as professionals and practitioners in all fields that deal with space, including regional planners and environmental managers.
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    Pages: VIII, 455 p. 141 illus., 113 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030281915
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5
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    Regional and Urban Change and Geographical Information Systems and Science : An Analysis of Ontario, Canada (2023)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Quality of life. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Quality of Life Research. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Urban Sociology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Land use and land cover change: advancing with geographic information science -- Chapter 2-Land use in Ontario: challenges in land use classification -- Chapter 3-The golden horseshoe: land use from past to present -- Chapter 4-First nations reserves in Ontario: effects of urban sprawl -- Chapter 5-Archaeological heritage and urban sprawl: corridors of change -- Chapter 6-The cityscape: urban growth in Toronto -- Chapter 7-Land use and health perception -- Chapter 8-Environmental injustice in southern Ontario -- Chapter 9-Happiness and land use. .
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs. In nine chapters, the book offers advanced spatial analysis techniques and digital data content to integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as tools to tackle regional and urban challenges. The chapters address the following main topics: 1) state-of-the-art approaches for regional discrepancies, 2) investigations of available methods for advanced spatial analysis, 3) identification of regional patterns and land use dynamics, 4) availability of Web 3.0 data content for regions without standardized data, and 5) the limitations and challenges of urbanization and its impact on landscape, heritage and ecosystems. The volume is divided into four sections dealing with key issues in Ontario, each addressing the use of GIS for crucial regional decision-making. The book will be of interest to researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, planners, regional scientists, and policy makers.
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    Pages: IX, 240 p. 66 illus., 42 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031247316
    Series Statement: Advances in Geographic Information Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24731-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24731-6
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    Hazard Modeling and Assessment of the Nile Delta Coast : Remote Sensing and GIS Applications (2023)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Cartography. ; Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Cartography. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter1. Physical Setting of Nile Delta Coast -- Chapter2. Geomorphometric of Nile Delta Coastline -- Chapter3. Coastline Change Detection -- Chapter4. GIS – based Modeling of Sea-Level Rise by the end of 21th century -- Chapter5. Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping -- Chapte6. Multi-Criteria Coastal Vulnerability Assessment -- Conclusion and Recommendations.
    Abstract: The book presents the results of a doctoral thesis conducted under the supervision of two international governmental universities in Egypt and the USA. This book is very important for specialists in the field of Physical Geography with concentration of Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing techniques for Coastal Hazard Assessment. It deals with coastal hazards and disasters using unique techniques and methods, such as Coastline Change Detection, Sea-Level Rise Modeling and Future Predication, Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping, and Coastal Vulnerability Index. The integration of geospatial technologies that applied accurately in this book especially for the coastal hazard mitigation and protection devise evaluation makes it very helpful for researchers and academics, as well as for coastal and civil engineers.
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    Pages: XX, 218 p. 85 illus., 80 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031443244
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44324-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44324-4
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    Transforming Bangladesh : Geography, People, Economy and Environment (2023)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Human geography. ; Economic history. ; Economic geography. ; Asia History. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Human Geography. ; Economy-wide Country Studies. ; Economic Geography. ; History of South Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Index -- Glossary -- Part 1 Geo-Physical Dynamics -- Part 2 Bio-Physical Aspects -- Part 3 Changes in Society -- Part 4 Land Resource and Land Use Patterns -- Part 5 Towards Food Security and Food Self-sufficiency -- Part 6 Changing Popular Dynamics -- Part 7 Rural Settlement Pattern -- Part 8 Urbanization: A Future Challenge -- Part 9 Trade, Communication and Industries for Economic Growth -- Part 10 Bangladesh in Growing International Sharing -- Part 11 Natural Hazards and Changes in Livelihood Pattern -- Part 12 Environmental Problems and Policies for Sustainable Living -- Part 13 Bangladesh Under Climate Change Threat -- Part 14 Development Policies and Future of Bangladesh.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the transformation of Bangladesh in respect to its people, geography, economy and environment. The authors discuss current problems such as vulnerability caused by environmental degradation in Bangladesh but also opportunities of this rapidly changing country. The book explains how the country is rapidly transforming from a rural subsistence agrarian based economic system to a new economic partner contributing to global processes. Bangladesh is presented as an example for the changes in the Global South, where a mismatch is often observed in linking resources and activities with environmental sustainability, possibly due to insufficient base-line knowledge. As faster growth is marginalizing resources to increase the GDP, the sustainability of resource exploitation is being questioned. The authors describe the vulnerable situation caused by possible sea-level rise, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, climate extremities, urbanization, and population displacement. This volume offers comprehensive knowledge about the geography and environment of Bangladesh and aims to help readers further investigate the issues and work on solutions. The book appeals to academics, professionals and students at all levels interested in Bangladesh as well as environmental problems and geographical issues in a rapidly transforming country. .
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    Pages: X, 176 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031450938
    Series Statement: World Regional Geography Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45093-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45093-8
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    Landscapes and Landforms of the Central Sahara (2023)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Earth sciences. ; Environment. ; Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Earth Sciences. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Background -- Geology, climate and landscape evolution -- Quaternary and holocene palaeoclimates of the Sahara -- Plant and animal life in the Sahara -- Human exploitation of the Central Sahara -- Field investigation, remote sensing and geomorphological mapping -- Part II. Landforms and landscapes -- Evidence for past glaciations -- Volcanoes and igneous landforms -- Sandstone massifs -- Solutional landforms and karstic weathering -- Alluvial fans, escarpments, and pediments -- Hamada, serir, and desert pavement -- Sand seas – North -- Sand seas – South and west. .
    Abstract: This book describes the Central Sahara region, bringing together an unprecedented combination of diverse and often historic research published in different languages in order to describe its varied landscapes and landforms. The Central Sahara region consists of Libya, Algeria, Mali, Niger and Chad, countries that share similar landscape histories and common landscape traits, including massifs, sand seas, paleowater features and large depressions. Furthermore, human settlement of this region goes hand-in-hand with climate and environmental changes and landscape evolution during the Holocene and earlier; hence, Central Saharan landscapes and landforms provide valuable insights into landscape–human relationships over long timescales. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible reference source, drawing on both past and present interdisciplinary research and gathering the insights of authors from many different countries to explore a region that has largely been overlooked in available literature.
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    Pages: VIII, 235 p. 105 illus., 97 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031471605
    Series Statement: World Geomorphological Landscapes,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47160-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47160-5
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    Enabling Adaptive Water Management to Face Drought Risk in a Changing Climate (2021)
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    Keywords: Natural disasters. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Geography. ; Physical geography. ; Natural Hazards. ; Water. ; Regional Geography. ; Earth System Sciences.
    Abstract: This book explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the interlinkages between drought and water management. It focuses on the challenges for water management organisations, which are expected to adapt to such changes and implement adaptive water management. The book proposes a methodology for assessing organisations’ adaptive capacity, named REACT, and demonstrates its application in a case study. It subsequently analyses the barriers hindering water management organisations’ ability to adapt, and investigates the socio-cultural and economic barriers in water governance to applying adaptive water management (AWM) strategies. Lastly, the book describes how to enable AWM in order to face current and future drought risks by integrating it with drought risk management. Given its scope, it will appeal to scientists, pracademics and professionals from academia, the water industry and involved in policymaking.
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    Pages: XII, 132 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030551377
    Series Statement: PoliMI SpringerBriefs,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55137-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55137-7
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    Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation (2020)
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    Keywords: Cultural property. ; Human geography. ; Buildings Design and construction. ; Cultural geography. ; Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Semiotics. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Human Geography. ; Building Construction and Design. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Environmental Social Sciences. ; Semiotics.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Landfill Vernacular -- 2. ‘Bale Kulkul’ Architecture as the Representation of Balinese Autonomy Tradition -- 3. Cultural Burning and the Interstices of Two Vernacular Cultural Forms -- 4. The Effects ‘Share-Economy’ Based Accommodation Service on Vernacular Settlement (Case Study: Yogyakarta’s Sultanate Palace Complex) -- 5. The Shift of Symbolic Meaning of Joglo Houses For People In Brayut Tourism Village -- 6. Designing for Vernacular Landscape through Ecosystem-Approach: A case of Floating Settlements at Dal Lake, Kashmir -- 7. Place Making as Ordering Life Case Study: The Bali Aga Village, Pengotan -- 8. Identifying Local Builders’ Roles in Physical Transformation of Minangkabau’s Rumah Gadang -- 9. Transformation in Vernacular Architecture of Baiga Tribe of Central India -- 10. Meaning, Time, Communication: Reflecting on the “Aceh Method” and Vernacular -- 11. Identity Representation and Conflict Prevention in Community Mosques of Malang Raya, East Java, Indonesia -- 12. Transformation versus Preservation of Vernacular Architecture in Bali: A Lesson from Bali Aga Villages -- 13. Coping Strategies in Vernacular Architecture: Adaptation and Adjustment for Contemporary Needs at Pinggan Village, Kintamani, Bali -- 14. Vernacularity and Place: Re-presentation of Fishing Huts of Bahrain at the Venice Biennale -- 15. Relation of Binary Opposition Structure (Rwa-Bhineda) Mount-Ocean : A Case Study on Cultural Heritage of Pura Batukaru-Pakendungan/Tanah Lot in the Perspective of Ecofeminism in Bali -- 16. Preventive Measures and Formulas for the Sustainability of Vernacular Settlements in Malaysia -- 17. Physical Attributes Significant in Preserving the Social Sustainability of the Traditional Malay Settlement -- 18. Revisiting the Minangkabau Traditional House in the Central Area of Sumatra: The Case of Limapuluh Koto and Bangkinang -- 19. The Influence of Cultural Acculturation on Architecture Keraton Kasepuhan Cirebon -- 20. Transformation of Traditional Vernacular Settlements: Lessons from the Kathmandu Valley.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to reflect on ''vernacularity'' and culture. It concentrates on two major domains: first it attempts to reframe our understanding of vernacularity by addressing the subject in the context of globalisation, cross-disciplinarity, and development, and second, it discusses the phenomenon of how vernacularity has been treated, used, employed, manipulated, practiced, maintained, learned, reconstructed, preserved and conserved, at the level of individual and community experience. Scholars from a wide variety of knowledge fields have participated in enriching and engaging discussions, as to how both domains can be addressed. To expedite these aims, this book adopts the theme "Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation",organised around the following major sub-themes: • Transformation in the vernacular built environment • Vernacular architecture and representation • The meaning of home • Symbolic intervention and interpretation of vernacularity • The semiotics of place • The politics of ethnicity and settlement • Global tourism and its impacts on vernacular settlement • Vernacular built form and aesthetics • Technology and construction in vernacular built forms • Vernacular language - writing and oral traditions.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030224486
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22448-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22448-6
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    Neoendogenous Development in European Rural Areas : Results and Lessons (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Regionalism. ; Human Geography. ; Regionalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: Neoendogenous rural development in mountain areas. Dax -- Social innovation and rural development. Bosworth -- The role of rural development policy in European territorial cohesion. Copus -- Territorial governance and rural development, challenge or reality? -- Public action and territorial development. Lacquement -- Territorial distribution of projects with LEADER approach in Andalusia and Extremadura -- Social capital and innovation in Italy and Spain -- Transnational cooperation experiences with LEADER approach in rural areas of Spain and Finland -- The role of agriculture in rural development in Spain and Italy -- The importance of tourism in rural development in Spain and Germany -- Women and young people entrepreneurs in neoendogenous development -- Work and workers created in the LEADER approach -- Natural and cultural heritage in the LEADER approach -- The failed projects. Initiatives that never had support from rural development policy -- Experiences and shared lessons. Cejudo, Eugenio and Navarro, Francisco.
    Abstract: This book is one of the main outcomes of the projects “Development Programmes and Rural Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share”and “Successes and failures in the practice of neoendogenous rural development in the European Union (1991-2013)”, funded both of them by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. This publication aims, on one side, to clarify and deepen the knowledge of the social, economic and territorial effects of the LEADER approach, and, on the other, to analyze the importante of the participation of several stakeholders (young people and women) as well as some traditional activities –agriculture- or modern ones (tourism) linked all of them to the rich cultural and natural heritage of these areas. It also provides an in-depth study of the causes that lead to the generation of successful projects in the practice of neoendogenous rural development and also explores the reasons that cause certain projects to fail in the path towards LEADER support so that they are finally not implemented. In addition, it is shown the problems, results and best practices that cause the neoendogenous rural development in different areas inside of the European Union: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Thereby it helps to improve the decision-making in rural development, both on a local and regional scale. The multidisciplinary and international character of the authors, as well as the specificity of the research trajectory of each of them, in the analysis of rural development, enriches the publication and facilitates the different and critical reflections on the contributions, errors and meaning of the neoendogenous local development. Researchers in this discipline and technicians working in the practice of rural development along the European Union are the main audience of the book.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030334635
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33463-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33463-5
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    Coastal Resorts and Urbanization in Northeast Brazil (2020)
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Geography. ; Economic geography. ; Political planning. ; Urban Sociology. ; Geography. ; Economic Geography. ; Public Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Urban, Spas And Maritime Vilegiatura -- Chapter 2. The Metropolises Grow Towards The Sea, Northeast Of Brazil -- Chapter 3. Coastal Metropolitization And Tourist Real Estate -- Chapter 4. The Social And Urbanistic Effects Of Tourism Developments In Fortaleza, Brazil -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN. The objective is to study the processes of urbanization associated with maritime leisure. In the first chapter, the reader will find a historical and conceptual presentation highlighting the relevance of leisure practices, their forms-flows and their role in the formation of maritime resorts. The second chapter analyses the context of the northeastern region of Brazil and demonstrates the process of modernization and formation of the seaside function within the cities, and later, in the maritime metropolises of the region. The relationship between urbanization and touristic real estate ventures is the central theme of the third chapter, which proposes a specific methodology for studies of this nature. The final chapter presents the seaside resorts in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza, a case study similar to others in the Northeast, examining the urbanistic effects and the key ideas of the planners.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030465933
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46593-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46593-3
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    Structural Geomorphology in Northeastern Brazil (2020)
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    Keywords: Geomorphology. ; Geology. ; Geography. ; Geomorphology. ; Geology. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The paradigm of stable intraplate regions and neotectonics in northeastern Brazil -- Chapter 2. Understanding the geological setting of northeastern Brazil -- Chapter 3. The geomorphology of the Northeast: Classical and current perspectives -- Chapter 4. The erosion and exhumation of massifs in Precambrian shear zones -- Chapter 5. The morphostructural evolution of Cretaceous basins -- Chapter 6. Karstic geomorphology -- Chapter 7. Neotectonics and River valleys -- Annexes.
    Abstract: This book presents the characteristics and limitations of geological units, Cenozoic and geochronological concepts. It studies landscape aspects developed from research in areas with proved Cenozoic tectonic activity, such as the Potiguar basin, located between the states of Ceara and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The analytical focus involves the relationship between tectonics and landscapes in different scales, in hills or karsts, or regional, in basins, and massifs. .
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    Pages: VIII, 114 p. 47 illus., 43 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030133115
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13311-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13311-5
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    The Geography of Slovenia : Small But Diverse (2020)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Physical geography. ; Economic geography. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Economic Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Slovenia: A European Landscape Hotspot (Drago Perko, Rok Ciglič, Matija Zorn) -- Part I: Physical geography -- Chapter 2. Rocks and Tectonic Structure of Slovenia(Mauro Hrvatin, Jure Tičar, Matija Zorn) -- Chapter 3. Landforms of Slovenia (Matija Zorn, Mateja Ferk, Matej Lipar, Blaž Komac, Jure Tičar, Mauro Hrvatin) -- Chapter 4. Waters of Slovenia(Mauro Hrvatin, Miha Pavšek, Maja Topole) -- Chapter 5. Climate and weather of Slovenia (Blaž Komac, Miha Pavšek, Maja Topole) -- Chapter 6. Soils of Slovenia (Matija Zorn, Mateja Breg Valjavec, Blaž Komac, Manca Volk Bahun, Mauro Hrvatin) -- Chapter 7. Biodiversity of Slovenia (Urban Šilc, Branko Vreš, Tatjana Čelik, Matjaž Gregorič) -- Part II: Human geography -- Chapter 8. The History of Slovenia: Archaeological Evidence from Prehistory to the Slavs (Matija Turk, Anton Velušček, Primož Pavlin, Sneža Tecco Hvala, Lucija Grahek, Jana Horvat, Marjeta Šašel Kos, Zvezdana Modrijan, Andrej Pleterski) -- Chapter 9. The History of Slovenia: The Middle Ages to the Present (Miha Kosi, Miha Preinfalk, Petra Svoljšak) -- Chapter 10. Slovenia’s Population (Drago Kladnik, Jani Kozina, Peter Repolusk) -- Chapter 11. The Settlement System in Slovenia (David Bole, Maruša Goluža, Jernej Tiran, Peter Kumer, Maja Topole, Janez Nared) -- Chapter 12. Slovenian Economy (Janez Nared, David Bole, Nika Razpotnik Visković, Jernej Tiran) -- Chapter 13. Culture in Slovenia (Mimi Urbanc, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Peter Kumer) -- Part III: Regional geography -- Chapter 14. Slovenia’s Landscapes (Drago Perko, Rok Ciglič) -- Chapter 15. Slovenia’s Regions (Drago Perko, Rok Ciglič) -- Chapter 16. Slovenia on maps (Primož Gašperič, Jerneja Fridl, Manca Volk Bahun) -- Part IV: Human impact on environment -- Chapter 17. Natural hazards in Slovenia (Blaž Komac, Mateja Ferk, Primož Pipan, Jure Tičar, Matija Zorn) -- Chapter 18. Land use in Slovenia (Matej Gabrovec, Peter Kumer, Daniela Ribeiro, Mateja Šmid Hribar) -- Chapter 19. Regional development in Slovenia (Janez Nared) -- Chapter 20. Human-induced degradation in Slovenia (Aleš Smrekar, Mateja Breg Valjavec, Katarina Polajnar Horvat) -- Chapter 21. Slovenia’s Protected Areas (Aleš Smrekar, Katarina Polajnar Horvat, Daniela Ribeiro) -- Part V: Slovenia and the World -- Chapter 22. Slovenia: Comparisons (Drago Kladnik, Matjaž Geršič) -- Chapter 23. Slovenia's records and outstanding features (Drago Perko, Matjaž Geršič).
    Abstract: This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English. Only very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the landscape diversity found in Slovenia since the Alps, the Pannonian Basin, the Dinaric Alps, and the Mediterranean meet and interweave in this small corner of Central Europe, as do Germanic, Hungarian, Slavic, and Romance cultural influences. The book provides a systematical overview of physical and human geographical elements of Slovenia from landforms to cultural characteristics. Special attention is given to landscape diversity, to the presentation of Slovene landscape types and regions, to some particularities and interesting facts of Slovenia, and to the position of Slovenia in the World. The book also illustrates some other important geographical phenomena, processes and interactions between nature and society in nowadays Slovenia. This volume appeals to researchers as well as students in the field of regional geography. It can also serve as a source for complete background information as well as a field guide for Slovenia.
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    Pages: XII, 360 p. 234 illus., 197 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030140663
    Series Statement: World Regional Geography Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14066-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14066-3
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    Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action (2021)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities. ; Environment. ; Political sociology. ; Sustainability. ; Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Humanities and Social Sciences. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Political Sociology. ; Sustainability. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction (Douglas C. Nord ) -- Chapter 2. NordForsk as a Facilitator of Integrated Research on the Arctic (Gunnel Gustafsson) -- Chapter 3. CLINF: Climate Change Effects on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and the Associated Impacts on Northern Societies( Birgitta Evengård and Tomas Thierfelder ) -- Chapter 4. CLINF: An Integrated Project Design(Tomas Thierfelder and Birgitta Evengård ) -- Chapter 5.Environmental Data Modeling for CSI Research in the Arctic(Gia Destouni, Zarah Kalantari, Shaun Quegan, Dieder Leibovic, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jaakko Ikonen) -- Chapter 6 .Reindeer Herding and Coastal Pastures: Adaption to Multiple Stressors and Cumulative Effects(Grete Hovelsrud, Camilla Risvoll, Jan Åge Riseth, Hans Tømmervik, Anna Omazic, Ann Albihn ) -- Chapter 7.The ARCPATH Project—Assessing Risky Environments and Rapid Change:Research on Climate, Adaptation and Coastal Communities in the North Atlantic Region (Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, Yongqi Gao, Niels Einarsson, Noel Keenlyside, Leslie King ) -- Chapter 8 .The Climate Model: An ARCPATH Tool to Understand and Predict Climate Change (Shuting Yang, Yongqi Gao, Koenigk Torben, Noel Keenlyside, Francois Counillon ) -- Chapter 9. Whale Ecosystem Services and Co-production Processes Underpinning Human Wellbeing in the Arctic: Case Studies from Greenland, Iceland and Norway(Laura Malinauskaite, David Cook, Brynhildur Daviծsdóttir, Helga Ögmundardóttir) -- Chapter 10. "Small Science”: Community Engagement and Local Research in an Era of Big Science Agendas (Catherine Chambers, Leslie King, David Cook, Laura Malinauskaite, Margaret Willson, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Niels Einarsson) -- Chapter 11. Project ReiGN: Reindeer Husbandry in a Globalizing North—Resilience, Adaptations and Pathways to Action (Øystein Holand, Jon Moen, Jouko Kumpula, Annette Löf, Sipra Rasmus, Knut Røed ) -- Chapter 12 .What Drives the Number of Semi-Domesticated Reindeer? Pasture Dynamics and Economic Incentives in Fennoscandian Reindeer Husbandry (Annti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Juoko Kumpula and Olli Tahvonen) -- Chapter 13. Reindeer Herders as Stakeholders or Right- Holders: Introducing a Social-Equity Based Conceptualization Relevant for Indigenous and Local Communities (Simo Sarkki, Hannu Heikkinen and Annette Löf) -- Chapter 14. Working Together: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Effort of Co-producing Knowledge on Supplementary Feeding in Reindeer Husbandry Across Fennoscandia (Tim Horstkotte, Élise Lépy and Camilla Risvoll) -- Chapter 15. Is There Such a Thing As “Best Practice”? Exploring the Extraction/Sustainability Dilemma in REXSAC ( Sverker Sörlin) -- Chapter 16 .When Mines Go Silent: Exploring the Afterlives of Extraction Sites (Dag Avango and Gunhild Rosqvist) -- Chapter 17 Bringing Emotions Back In—Affective Approaches to Resource Extraction(Frank Sejersted and Kirsten Thisted) -- Chapter 18 .The Challenge of Synthesis: Lessons from Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (Leslie King and Astrid E.J. Ogilvie) -- Chapter 19. Assessment and Evaluation in Arctic Research—Where Do We Come From, and Where Are We Going? (Andre van Amstel, Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Maureen Biermann, Roberta Marinelli and Douglas Nord) -- Chapter 20 . Findings and Conclusions—Pathways for Action (Douglas Nord).
    Abstract: This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today’s Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region. It focuses its attention on the recent efforts of the Nordic community to create specialized Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research in order to facilitate this process of scientific inquiry and policy articulation. The volume seeks to describe both the steps that lead to this decision and the manner in which this undertaking as evolved. The work highlights the research efforts of the four Centers and their investigations of a variety of issues including those related to ecosystem and wildlife management, the revitalization resource dependent communities, the emergence of new climate-born diseases and the development of adequate modeling techniques to assist northern communities in their efforts at adaptation and resilience building. Major discoveries and insights arising from these and other efforts are detailed and possible policy implications considered. The book also focuses attention on the challenges of creating and supporting multidisciplinary teams of researchers to investigate such concerns and the methods and means for facilitating their collaboration and the integration of their findings to form new and useful perspectives on the nature of change in the contemporary Arctic. It also provides helpful consideration and examples of how local and indigenous communities can be engaged in the co-production of knowledge regarding the region. The volume discusses how such research findings can be best communicated and shared between scientists, policymakers and northern residents. It considers the challenges of building common concern not just among different research disciplines but also between bureaucracies and the public. Only when this bridge-building effort is undertaken can true pathways to action be established. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030523244
    Series Statement: Springer Polar Sciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52324-4
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    Cycling & Walking for Regional Development : How Slowness Regenerates Marginal Areas (2021)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Sustainability. ; Architecture. ; Urban economics. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Cultural property. ; Human Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Cities, Countries, Regions. ; Urban Economics. ; Urban Sociology. ; Cultural Heritage.
    Description / Table of Contents: From Slow Tourism to Slow Travel: An Idea for Marginal Regions -- The Seat and the Saddle. How Slow is Quick and Fast is Stuck -- Marginality from Theory to Practices -- Marginalised Areas as a Public Policy Concern -- Italian Policies on Marginal Territories: An Overview -- Slowness to Discover the Ordinary Italian Landscape -- Food on the Bike -- The Role of Historic Roads to Preserve and Valorize the Landscape -- Cultural Heritage Preservation and Territorial Attractiveness: A Spatial Multidimensional Evaluation Approach -- Slow Travel Project for Enhancing Territories: Motivations and Directions -- Design, Public Engagement and Communication: Reframing Methodology -- Narration of Cultural Heritage as Anti-fragility Tool -- Learning from the Experience: A Set of European Policies -- The United Kingdom’s National Cycle Network: Paths for Everyone, Past, Present and Future -- The Singularity of the Camino de Santiago as a Contemporary Tourism Case -- The Success of the Cycle Tourist Backbone Along the Danube in Germany and Austria.
    Abstract: This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and marginality/spatial inequality and explores the linkages between these topics. Key issues are addressed by experts from various disciplinary backgrounds, and potential measures are proposed for the integration of slow tourism into strategies for regional development. Particular attention is devoted to the VENTO project, which involves the creation of a 700-km-long cycle route from Venice to Turin that passes through various rural and marginalized areas of northern Italy. The goal, research process, design, and early lessons from this important project are all discussed in detail. Moreover, the book describes policies and strategies that have successfully been used to enhance the slow tourism infrastructure in other European countries. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, and students interested in e.g. policymaking, tourism planning, regional development, and landscape and urban planning.
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    Pages: X, 249 p. 97 illus., 61 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030440039
    Series Statement: Research for Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44003-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44003-9
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    Urban and Regional Planning and Development : 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Sustainability. ; Urban economics. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Sustainability. ; Urban Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Urban and Regional Planning and Development: Introduction and Overview -- Frank J. Costa: Professional Career and Contributions -- Regional Development and Planning -- Forty Years of Urban and Regional Development and Planning in China -- Urban and Regional Development and Planning in India’s Five Year Plans: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues -- South African Urban Planning in the 20th and 21st Centuries – Continuities between the Apartheid and Democratic eras? -- A Reappraisal of Spatial Planning in Botswana -- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday? -- Remaking ‘Urban’ in 21st Century Neoliberal India -- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting -- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador -- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space -- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston -- Ecological Regional Planning: An Approach of the Protected Areas and the Environmental Services in Costa Rica -- Remaking ‘Urban’ in 21st Century Neoliberal India -- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting -- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador -- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space -- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston -- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday? -- Geographies of Indian Women’s Everyday Public Safety -- Land Use Change Outside Dhaka Metropolitan Area: An Analysis of Factors from Physical, Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspectives -- Consequences of Unplanned Growth: A Case Study of Metropolitan Hyderabad -- Slum Upgradation and Improvement through Slums Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in Delhi -- Remodelling Urban Villages in Delhi: The Overriding Role of Transportation Lines -- Regional Differentials in Transformation of Dalits in Northwestern India -- Land Use Planning Policies and Gentrification in U. S. Cities -- State-led Urbanity: Reexamining Modern Movement Servicescapes -- Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization vis-a-vis Participatory Decentralization -- Changing Trajectories of Urban Governance and Participatory Urban Development in India -- Politics and Ethics in the Process of Plan Preparation and Implementation -- Participatory Comprehensive Planning of Amphawa District, Thailand -- Infrastructure and Regional Development in India: Spatial Linkages and Policy Implications -- Tourism and Urban Development in Chennai, India: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis -- Knowledge and Skills for India's Urban Transformation-High Growth Period for Urban Planning -- Intermediary Cities of Refuge: From Istanbul to Kolkata -- Return Migrants as Force to Urban Transformation – A Case Study from Poznan, Poland -- Leveraging Brewing History: The Case of Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood -- Sustainable Cities in the Global South: Lessons from the African Continent -- Growing Sustainable Transportation in an Autocentric Community: Current Trends and Applications -- Sacred-Heritage City Development and Planning in India: A Study of Banaras and Ayodhya -- An Assessment of Preservation Planning Activities in Pennsylvania Municipalities Using the Historic District Act.
    Abstract: This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional, national and global scales? With the push to adopt a market paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship between resource management, sustainable development and the role of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it. Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers, practitioners or policymakers.
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    Pages: XIV, 546 p. 132 illus., 95 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030317768
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8
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    Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada (2020)
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    Keywords: Geomorphology. ; Geology. ; Physical geography. ; Geography. ; Environment. ; Geomorphology. ; Geology. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Geomorphological landscapes of Eastern Canada: general overview -- Case studies, with at least one outstanding example from each of the major physiographic regions -- Geomorphological landscapes as heritage.
    Abstract: This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of eastern Canada and provides a companion volume to “Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada” (2017). There are a number of unique characteristics of eastern Canada’s landscapes, notably its magnificent coastlines, the extraordinary variety and extent of wetlands, the huge Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, the high incidence of meteorite craters , the spectacular Niagara Falls, urban karst in Montreal and Ottawa, youthful, glaciated karst in Ontario, Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia, the ubiquitous permafrost terrain of Nunavut, Labrador and northern Quebec and the magnificent arctic fjords and glaciers. Looking at coastlines, the tidal extremes of the Bay of Fundy are world renowned; the structural complexity of the island of Newfoundland is less well known, but produces an astounding variety of coastlines in close succession; the arctic fjordlands of Baffin and Ellesmere islands and the extravagant raised beaches of Hudson Bay bear comparison with the classic fjords of Norway and the Baltic Sea raised beaches. As for wetlands there are distinctive Arctic, Subarctic, Boreal, Eastern Temperate and Atlantic wetlands and their extent is second only to those of Russia. In the Hudson and James bay regions between 75-100% of the terrestrial surface is comprised of wetlands. One of North America’s largest river basins, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, has its source in Minnesota, straddles the USA-Canada border and debouches into Quebec as the St. Lawrence River and evolves through its estuary into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a journey of almost 5,000 km. As far as meteorite craters are concerned, 10% of the world’s total are located in eastern Canada, including some of the largest and most complex. They are preserved preferentially in the ancient Shield terrain of Quebec. Finally, the three million km² of permafrost controlled relief in eastern Canada serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of eastern Canada’s landscapes to climate change. Effects of warming are expressed through thawing of the permafrost, disruption of transportation corridors and urban construction problems, ever-present geomorphic hazards.
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    Pages: XVI, 596 p. 411 illus., 387 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030351373
    Series Statement: World Geomorphological Landscapes,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35137-3
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    Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis : Landscapes of Time and Place (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Water. ; Hydrology. ; Communication. ; Culture Study and teaching. ; Human Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Epistemology. ; Water. ; Media and Communication. ; Cultural Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Landscape, Time, Text -- Ch.1 Ghost Cathedral of the Blackland Prairie: Waxahachie, Texas, Places in the Heart and the Superconducting Super Collider -- Ch.2 Digital Mapping and the Narrative Stratigraphy of Iceland -- Ch.3 Dead Men Tell Tales: History and Science at Duffy’s Cut -- Ch.4 ‘Please Mention the Green Book:’ The Negro Motorist Green Book as Critical GIS -- Part II: Cultures, Networks and Mobilities -- Ch.5 Queer Cartographies: Urban Redevelopment and the Changing Sexual Geography of Postwar San Francisco -- Ch.6 Revisiting the Walking City: A Geospatial Examination of the Journey to Work -- Ch.7 Corruption and Development of Atlanta Streetcar Lines in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical GIS Perspective -- Ch.8 “A brother Orangeman the world over”: Migration and the Geography of the Orange Order in the United States -- Part III: Climate, Weather, Environment -- Ch.9 Mining Weather and Climate Data from the Diary of a Forty-Niner -- Ch.10 Unmappable Variables: GIS and the Complicated Historical Geography of Water in the Rio Grande Project -- Ch.11 Supplying the Conquest: A Geospatial Visualization and Interpretation of Available Environmental Resources at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.-Ch.12 Mapping the Irish Rath (Ringfort): Landscape Settlement Patterns in the Early Medieval Period -- Part IV: Place, Philology, History -- Ch.13 Mapping Power: Using HGIS and Linked Open Data to Study Ancient Greek Garrison Communities -- Ch.14 The Preservation of Paradox: Bismarck Towers as National Metaphor and Local Reality -- Ch.15 Mapping the Historical Transformation of Beijing’s Regional Naming System -- Ch.16 Geographical Enrichment of Historical Landscapes: Spatial Integration, Geo-Narrative, Spatial Narrative, and Deep Mapping.
    Abstract: This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of ‘earth-writing’ (geographia) emerged from the cloisters of the great library of Alexandria, as a discipline blending the twin pursuits of Strabo’s poetic impression of places, and Herodotus’ chronicles of events and cultures. Eratosthenes, a librarian at Alexandria, and the mathematician Ptolemy employed geometry as another language with which to pursue ‘earth-writing’. From this ancient, East Mediterranean fount, the streams of literary perception, historical record and geographical analysis (phenomenological and Euclidean) found confluence. The aim of this collection is to recover such means and seek the fount of such rich waters, by exploring relations between historical geography, geographic information science (GIS) / geoscience, and textual analysis. The book discusses and illustrates current case studies, trends and discourses in European, American and Asian spheres, where historical geography is practiced in concert with human and physical applications of GIS (and the broader geosciences) and the analysis of text - broadly conceived as archival, literary, historical, cultural, climatic, scientific, digital, cinematic and media. Time as a multi-scaled concept (again, broadly conceived) is the pivot around which the interdisciplinary contributions to this volume revolve. In The Landscape of Time (2002) the historian John Lewis Gaddis posits: “What if we were to think of history as a kind of mapping?” He links the ancient practice of mapmaking with the three-part conception of time (past, present, and future). Gaddis presents the practices of cartography and historical narrative as attempts to manage infinitely complex subjects by imposing abstract grids to frame the phenomena being examined— longitude and latitude to frame landscapes and, occidental and oriental temporal scales to frame timescapes. Gaddis contends that if the past is a landscape and history is the way we represent it, then it follows that pattern recognition constitutes a primary form of human perception, one that can be parsed empirically, statistically and phenomenologically. In turn, this volume reasons that literary, historical, cartographical, scientific, mathematical, and counterfactual narratives create their own spatio-temporal frames of reference. Confluences between the poetic and the positivistic; the empirical and the impressionistic; the epic and the episodic; and the chronologic and the chorologic, can be identified and studied by integrating practices in historical geography, GIScience / geoscience and textual analysis. As a result, new perceptions and insights, facilitating further avenues of scholarship into uncharted waters emerge. The various ways in which geographical, historical and textual perspectives are hermeneutically woven together in this volume illuminates the different methods with which to explore terrae incognitaes of knowledge beyond the shores of their own separate disciplinary islands.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030375690
    Series Statement: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37569-0
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    Inland Dunes of North America (2020)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Geography. ; Sedimentology. ; Environment. ; Physical Geography. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Regional Geography. ; Sedimentology. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Quaternary Eolian Dunes and Sand Sheets in Inland Locations of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Province, U.S.A. -- Chapter3. Dunes of the Laurentian Great Lakes -- Chapter4. The Central and Southern Great Plains -- Chapter5. The Nebraska Sand Hills -- Chapter6. White Sands -- Chapter7. Great Sand Dunes -- Chapter8. Colorado Plateau -- Chapter9. Southwest Deserts.
    Abstract: Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west. In this edited book, we highlight recent research on areas of inland dunes that span a range from those that are actively accumulating in current conditions of climate and sediment supply to those that were formed in past conditions and are now degraded relict systems. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, and earth sciences. Contributions include detailed analyses of individual active dune systems at White Sands, New Mexico; Great Sand Dunes, Colorado; and the Laurentian Great Lakes; as well as the vegetation-stabilized dunes of the Nebraska Sand Hills and the Colorado Plateau. Additional chapters discuss the widespread partially vegetated dune systems of the central and southern Great Plains; the relict dunes of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern USA; and active and stabilized dunes of the Colorado Plateau and the southwestern deserts of the USA and northern Mexico. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030404987
    Series Statement: Dunes of the World,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40498-7
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    Coping Mechanisms for Climate Change in Peri-Urban Areas (2020)
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    Keywords: Environment. ; Climatology. ; Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Agriculture. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Climate Sciences. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Evidences from climate change dynamics -- Chapter 3-Sustaining livelihoods for survival -- Chapter 4-Cultural influence for revitalizing health traditions and vulnerable environments -- Chapter 5-Holistic health for well-being -- Chapter 6-Summary and policy options. .
    Abstract: This book discusses the dynamics and resource management qualities of the peri-urban interface to address climate change consequences, focusing on the peri-urban region of the global city of Bengalaru. In 5 chapters, the authors document the unique challenges experienced in peri-urban areas, including soil-water vegetation dynamics, local and regional impacts on water bodies (surface and groundwater), food production issues, and the inhibited adaptive capacity of local communities. The book also provides knowledge on implementations of environmental management by local institutions, government interventions that have acted as catalysts in promoting community based adaptation strategies, and the physical, social and economic aspects of rural-urban dynamics. The book not only adds to the scarce existing literature on peri-urban contexts, but also addresses the role of culture in protecting ecological landscapes and how traditions play an important role in coping with climate change. Furthermore, the authors expand on these climate change coping mechanisms in peri-urban areas, taking into account local cultural factors and interesting governance interventions in the context of health. The book will be of interest to planners, policy makers, and students and researchers engaged in rural-urban dynamics and climate change adaptation. .
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    Pages: XX, 164 p. 116 illus., 109 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030185176
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18517-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18517-6
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    Decolonising and Internationalising Geography : Essays in the History of Contested Science (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Science History. ; World history. ; Geographic information systems. ; Civilization History. ; Geography. ; Human Geography. ; History of Science. ; World History, Global and Transnational History. ; Geographical Information System. ; Cultural History. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Mapping Cross-cultural Exchange: Jaime Cortesão’s Dialogues and Documents on the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Brazilian Exploration -- Pioneers of the Latin American Critical Geography: Josué de Castro and Antonio Núñez Jiménez -- After the Excitement of War: ‘Disabled Veterans’ in Modern Japan -- Indian Ocean Small Islands along the Postcolonial Trajectory: Chagos and the Maldives -- Do not cross. The “North/South” Divide: A Means of Domination? -- Drone Photography and the Re-Aestheticisation of nature -- “Our Field is the World”: Geographical Societies in International Comparison, 1821–1914 -- Personified Continents in Public Places: Internationalism, Art and Geography in Late Nineteenth Century Paris -- Pierre Monbeig and the Geohistory of Brazil -- How International was the International Geographical Congress in Rio de Janeiro 1956? On Location and Language Politics -- (Re-)Writing the History of IGU? A Report from the Archive. .
    Abstract: International scholarship is increasingly aware that the ‘geographical tradition’ is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions. This volume contains selected papers presented at two Symposia of the Commission on the History of Geography of the International Geographical Union within the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology which took place in Rio de Janeiro in July 2017. The papers address processes of ‘decolonising’ and ‘internationalising’ science in the 19th and 20th century, with a special emphasis on geography. Internationalization, circulation and dissemination of geographical concepts and ideas are in the focus. The volume includes case studies on Latin America, tropical regions as well as Europe and Japan. There is also an emphasis on the history of international congresses and organizations and on the international circulation of knowledge.
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    Pages: XVI, 140 p. 31 illus., 20 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030495169
    Series Statement: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49516-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49516-9
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    Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-economic and Environmental Indicators for Sustainable Development : Case Studies from North Africa (2020)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Regionalism. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Sustainability. ; Human geography. ; Geology. ; Physical Geography. ; Regionalism. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Geology.
    Abstract: This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects. It gathers the best contributions to the 1st International Conference on Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic and Environmental Indicators for the Local and Regional Sustainable Development. The conference was held in southern Tunisia, Tataouine in March 2015.The research studies focused on generating and analyzing indicators in various domains of Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Tourism, Transport, Urban Planning, Exploitation of Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Health, Environment, Education, Information and Communication Technologies, Social Affairs and Employability, and Culture and Sport. Socio-economic and environmental indicators are important in regional development plans and strategies as they allow to observe and analyze changes in the economic growth and to measure their impact on the environment and on social networks/daily life of citizens. On the basis of well-defined geomatic approaches, and particularly, through sophisticated digital mapping and spatio-temporal analyses, authors focused on retrieving indicators to evaluate the exploitation rate of natural resources, intensity of the energy consumption in various economic sector, net migratory flows, quality checking of the air in urban areas, adaptation to climate change, and vulnerability of the coastal domain and risk of marine submersion due to sea-level rise. The book is of interest not only to investors and contributors to regional development projects, but also to all relevant policy makers. .
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    Pages: XII, 167 p. 132 illus., 111 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030211660
    Series Statement: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21166-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21166-0
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    Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities (2020)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Climatology. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Human geography. ; Earth System Sciences. ; Climate Sciences. ; Physical Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. A review of ecosystem services in urban plans -- Chapter3. A review of ecosystem services in urban climate plans -- Chapter4. Developing ecosystem service information for urban planning -- Chapter5. Applying ecosystem services in urban planning: a case study -- Chapter6. Towards equitable distribution of ecosystem services in cities -- Chapter7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing what is still needed to improve planning practice; ii) illustrating how to develop ecosystem services indicators and information that can be used by urban planners to enhance plan design; iii) demonstrating the application of ES assessments to support urban planning processes through case studies; and iv) reflecting on criteria for addressing equity in urban planning through ecosystem service assessments, by exploring issues associated with the supply of, the access to and demand for ES by citizens. Through fully worked out case studies, from policy questions, to baseline analysis and indicators, and from option comparison to proposed solutions, the book offers readers detailed and accessible coverage of outstanding issues and proposed solutions to better integrate ES in city planning. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an updated perspective and overview on the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/decision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.
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    Pages: IX, 87 p. 26 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030200244
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20024-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20024-4
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    Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals : Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship (2023)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Digital humanities. ; Open source software. ; Sustainability. ; Cartography. ; Geography. ; Digital Humanities. ; Open Source. ; Sustainability. ; Cartography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- PartI. Mapping for the Goals on Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education, Gender, Water, and Energy -- Chapter2. Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South -- Chapter3. Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana -- Chapter4. Rural Household Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in Northern Ghana -- Chapter5. Where is the Closest Health Clinic? YouthMappers map their communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter6. Cross-continental YouthMappers Action to Fight Schistosomiasis Transmission in Senegal -- Chapter7. Understanding YouthMappers Contributions to Building Resilient Communities in Asia -- Chapter8. Activating Education for Sustainable Development Goals through YouthMappers -- Chapter9. Seeing the World Through Maps: An Inclusive and Youth Oriented Approach -- Chapter10. Youth Engagement and the Water-Energy-Land Nexus in Costa Rica -- Chapter11. Power Grid Mapping in West Africa -- Chapter12. Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria -- PartII. Youth Action on Work, Leadership, Innovation, Inequality, Cities, Production and Land -- Chapter13. Stories from Students Building Sustainability Through Transfer of Leadership -- Chapter14. Drones For Good: Mapping Out the SDGs Using Innovative Technology in Malawi -- Chapter15. Assessing YouthMappers Contributions to the Generation of Open Geospatial Data in Africa -- Chapter16. Mapping Invisible and Inaccessible Areas of Brazilian Cities to Reduce Inequalities -- Chapter17. Visualizing YouthMappers Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America -- PartIII. Marking a Path to Goals on Sustainable Communities, Consumption, Climate, Oceans, Land, and Justice -- Chapter18. Youth Engagement and Participation in Mitigating Perennial Flooding in Kampala, Uganda using Open Geospatial Data -- Chapter19. Sustainable Mobility through Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Mapping of Cycling Infrastructure: SIGenBici in Medellín, Colombia -- Chapter20. Wastesites.io: Mapping Solid Waste to Meet Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter21. Mapping for Resilience: Extreme Heat Deaths and Mobile Homes in Arizona -- Chapter22. Mapping for Women’s Evacuation Plans during Climate-induced Disasters -- Chapter23. Sustainable Development in Oceania and the Role of Mapping for Women -- Chapter24. Sustainable Coastal Communities in the Anthropocene: Lessons from Crowd-Mapping Projects in Colombia -- Chapter25. Collaborative Cartography Making Riparian Communities Visible in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil -- Chapter26. Open Mapping with Official Cartographies in the Americas -- Chapter27. Cities of the Future Need to be Both Smart and Just: How We Think Open Mapping Can Help -- PartIV. Supporting YouthMappers to Advance the SDGs through Institutions and Partnerships -- Chapter28. Mentoring Experiences in YouthMappers Chapters -- Chapter29. The Ecosystem Where YouthMappers Live and Thrive -- Chapter30. A Free and Open Map of the Entire World: Opportunities for YouthMappers within the Unusual Partnership Model of OpenStreetMap -- Chapter31. Youth and Humanitarian Action: Open Mapping Partnerships for Disaster Response and the SDGs -- PartV. The Paths Ahead -- Chapter32. Generation 2030: The Strategic Imperative of Youth Civic and Political Engagement -- Chapter33. Reflecting on the YouthMappers Movement.
    Abstract: This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who create and use open mapping for development and humanitarian purposes. Their work leverages digital innovations - both geospatial platforms and communications technologies - to answer the call for leadership to address sustainability challenges. The book conveys a sense of robust knowledge emerging from formal studies or informal academic experiences - in the first-person voices of students and recent graduates who are at the forefront of creating a new map of the world. YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap as the foundational sharing mechanism for creating data together. Authors impart the way they are learning about themselves, about each other, about the world. They are developing technology skills, and simultaneously teaching the rest of the world about the potential contributions of a highly connected generation of emerging world leaders for the SDGs. The book is timely, in that it captures a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the YouthMappers movement’s ability to share emerging expertise, and one that coincides with a pivotal moment in the geopolitical history of planet earth whose inhabitants need to hear from them. Most volumes that cover the topic of sustainability in terms of youth development are written by non-youth authors. Moreover, most are written by non-majoritarian, entrenched academic scholars. This book instead puts forward the diverse voices of students and recent graduates in countries where YouthMappers works, all over the world. Authors cover topics that range from water, agriculture, food, to waste, education, gender, climate action and disasters from their own eyes in working with data, mapping, and humanitarian action, often working across national boundaries and across continents. To inspire readers with their insights, the chapters are mapped to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that connect a youth agenda to a global agenda. This is an open access book. .
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    Pages: XXIII, 382 p. 258 illus., 251 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031051821
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1
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    Spatial Justice and Planning : Reshaping Social Housing Communities in a Changing Society (2023)
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Architecture. ; Social justice. ; Urban Policy. ; Human Geography. ; Cities, Countries, Regions. ; Social Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- An enquiry into planning for justice -- From aspirational to operational: Towards an integrated approach to spatial justice -- Urban regeneration and social housing redevelopment in Aotearoa New Zealand: Issues and challenges -- Historical-Geographical analysis of spatial differentiations -- Changing social housing policy in the context of neoliberalism -- People, place and policy -- Spatial justice and planning: Bridging the gap.
    Abstract: Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their interplay, but ambiguities about its practical bases have undermined its application in planning. Through creating and substantiating a new conceptual framework comprising a morphological study, policy analysis and embodiment research, this book crystallises the spatiality of (in)justice and (in)justice of spatiality in the context of social housing redevelopment. Like many countries around the world, social housing in Aotearoa New Zealand is an area of contention, especially at the building and redevelopment stages. Protecting community character and human rights has been used by social housing tenants to resist changes, but the primary focus on material outcomes neglects broadening access to planning processes. Compact, mixed tenure and sustainable (re)developments are regarded as the just built environment, as they enable equal accessibility to all. But there are contradictions between the planned spatiality of justice and individuals’ socialised sensory space. Reconciliation of morphological differentiations in built forms and social cohesion remains a challenging task. This book focuses on the re-examination, integration and transferability of spatial justice. It makes a new contribution to urban justice theory by strengthening spatial justice and planning. Social housing areas are expected to adapt to changing social and economic demands while retaining much-valued established community character. This book also provides practical strategies for tackling complex planning problems in social housing redevelopment.
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    Pages: XIX, 172 p. 40 illus., 27 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031380709
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9
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    Interpretation, Critical Review and Reporting in Life Cycle Assessment (2023)
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    Keywords: Environmental management. ; Environment. ; Environmental Law. ; Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Environmental Management. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Environmental Law. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Sustainability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Do We Cover Interpretation, Critical Review and Reporting in one Volume -- Chapter 2. Scientific Outline of Interpretation -- Chapter 3. Data Quality Analysis as Part of Interpretation -- Chapter 4. Quality Assurance by International Standards: the ‘Critical Review’ -- Chapter 5. Critical Review Versus Verification: Similarities and Differences -- Chapter 6. Benefits from Critical Review and Communication -- Chapter 7. Cost-Benefit-analysis of Critical Review: learning from Practice -- Chapter 8. Reporting and Communication.
    Abstract: This book discusses the phase “Interpretation” in an outstanding way. According to the opinio communis within the LCA community, “Interpretation” is classified as fourth phase of the LCA framework. However, referring to ISO 14040, this book defines “Interpretation” according to its function in the LCA framework, and this means that “Interpretation has a much broader influence than generally accepted. It overarches goal and scope, inventory analysis and impact assessment. Conclusions are drawn from the results of the inventory and the impact assessment, and recommendations refer to the objective of the study, the goal and scope phase. Likewise to be considered are the defined framework conditions, the reasons for carrying out the study as well as the context of the intended applications and the target groups of the results). A second highlight of this book concerns “Interpretation” as discussed in conjunction with Critical Review and Reporting, which is an outstanding approach. The relationship between interpretation and critical review can be seen in the fact that interpretation is a kind of structured preparation of a critical review; in practice, the performance of a critical review can be made much easier if the preparers of a life cycle assessment study very carefully follow the requirements that are specifically placed on the interpretation. Because the critical review is the independent quality control of an LCA, the results improve the credibility of reporting. The critical review helps to avoid text weaknesses and potential misunderstandings because these aspects will easier be realized by independent readers from different viewpoints. The reviewers thus also represent the first readership of a study and can help to ensure that the specific requirements for good and clear reporting of life cycle assessments are met. Sound reporting needs clear conclusions.
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    Pages: VII, 138 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031357275
    Series Statement: LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35727-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35727-5
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    Diversified Cropping Pattern and Agricultural Development : A Case Study from Malda District, India (2021)
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    Keywords: Physical geography. ; Agriculture. ; Human geography. ; Subsistence farming. ; Physical Geography. ; Agriculture. ; Human Geography. ; Subsistence Agriculture.
    Abstract: This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Malda and in India as a whole. The work presents data from 1995-2015 concerning changing cropping patterns at various land-size distributions, and analyzes the information over the twenty year period to understand the link between crop diversification and agricultural development, in order to combat major agricultural issues and make suitable policy recommendations at micro (rural) and macro (urban) levels of agricultural planning. The study is a unique contribution to the field of agricultural geography, and will be of use to students and researchers, as well as government organizations, city/community planners and agriculture managers.
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    Pages: XXXVI, 285 p. 116 illus., 48 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030557287
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55728-7
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    Suburban Retail Spaces : Formative and Transformative Process (2020)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Buildings Design and construction. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Landscape architecture. ; Geomorphology. ; Geography. ; Building Construction and Design. ; Regional and Spatial Economics. ; Urban Sociology. ; Landscape Architecture. ; Geomorphology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - Methodological introduction, research structure & state of the art -- Chapter 2 - Suburban shopping mall as Urban Fabric -- Chapter 3 - Suburban commercial fabric formative process -- Chapter 4 - Retail spaces Crisis and Future transformative process -- Chapter 5 – Conclusions -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book derives from observations of the contemporary built environment and its contradictions. The suburban retail spaces, specifically the suburban shopping mall, and the changes caused by them within urban organisms are the object of the investigation synthesized in the volume. The topic is very crucial for the development of the contemporary city. It constitutes at the same time a problem (large commercial structures' spread is 'destroying' traditional commercial urban fabrics) and an opportunity (shopping malls are the most vital parts of the new suburbs and can play the role of community nucleus in urban and suburban areas). Furthermore, the spread of e-commerce forces these structures to functional and spatial transformations that brings also a new relationship with the city. The analytical reading, supplemented by generative and design projections, is carried out by using the conceptual and methodological tools of urban morphology, specifically those of the typological processual approach. From this specific point of view, the suburban shopping mall is read as an organism (a complex system characterized by mutual solidarity and interdependence among component elements) in itself, and as a sub-organisms belonging to the largest territorial organism. The book is intended to offer, to operators, scholars, researchers, professionals and students, a reading and design method, to interpret an important aspect of the contemporary built environment by analyzing the suburban commercial space case. It offers at the same time a model applicable to other specific not-commercial cases, to defining paths for further research and design developments.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030549916
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54991-6
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    Renewing Cities with Value Capture Planning : Model for Achieving Equitable Housing, Public and Open Spaces, and Sustainable Transport (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human ecology Study and teaching. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Welfare economics. ; Human geography. ; Environment. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Studies. ; Urban Ecology. ; Social Economy. ; Human Geography. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I City and Region Renewal and Value Capture Planning Model -- Part Ii Inner city Renewal and Value Capture Planning -- Part III Middle Ring City Renewal and Value Capture Planning -- Part IV Regional Growth Centre Renewal and Value Capture Planning -- Part V Regional Capital City Renewal and Value Capture Planning -- Part VI Cities and Value Capture Planning Directions.
    Abstract: The book offers a model for city development and renewal based on land value capture (called ‘value capture’). Firstly, a review is presented of cities around the world that are currently using value capture. From these city examples the author shows how any state, city or regional government can adopt value capture policies. Looking at recent events the author reviews the implications of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) for future planning (including value capture) of cities and regions (particularly noting healthy cities planning). The development of a value capture planning (VCP) model is then outlined. The basis of the model is reflected in its planning components, being: Housing (affordable, social and market housing); Public and Open Spaces (natural areas, open spaces and public spaces); and, Sustainable Transport (rail, bus, and active transport). The VCP model is devised to provide an economic and planning tool that can be utilised in addressing each of these planning components. This tool includes data entry tables and explanations of how these tables are applied. Four case study cities (within Australia) currently undergoing renewal are selected for the model to be applied to. The areas were chosen to represent contrasting urban settings and types of development and renewal, including: inner city, middle ring city; growth centre city; and, regional capital city. The current (2020) active renewal programs within these areas include (city in brackets): Central to Eveleigh Renewal Area (CERA) (City of Sydney); Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor (SBURC) (Canterbury Bankstown City); Gosford City Centre Revitalisation (GCCR) area (Gosford City); and, Newcastle City Renewal Area (NCRA) (Newcastle City). The reader is walked through (graphically) the backgrounds of these case study cities, including geography, development trends and details of renewal plans. Conclusions on the VCP model application are outlined for each study area (within that chapter) and for the cumulative results across all study areas (final chapter). With these conclusions, the application of the model to any city or region anywhere in the world is outlined. Finally, on a practical level the reader would be interested in how value capture is administered through programs (including the roles of government, developers and the community). Summing up, the book offers the reader an understanding of current city planning and the tools (like value capture) that will be required for future planning.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030629588
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62958-8
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    Managing Natural Resource Conflicts with Participatory Mapping and PGIS Applications (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Peace. ; Geography. ; Geographical Information System. ; Peace and Conflict Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part1. Sources, impacts, and the perspectives on resource conflicts -- Chapter1. Natural Resources, Conflict of Interests and their Management -- Chapter2. Sources, Impacts and Management of Natural Resources Conflicts -- Chapter3. Perspectives on Natural Resource Conflicts -- Part2. Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management -- Chapter4. Participatory Mapping and management of natural resource conflicts -- Chapter5. The Development of Community-based GIS Applications -- Chapter6. The impact of geospatial data processing on conflict-supporting beliefs -- Chapter7. Case study: Participatory mapping and management of conflict of interests over allocation of resources within the Aboma Forest Reserve at Kofiase, Ghana -- Part3. Assessment of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management -- Chapter8. Important factors in successful Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management -- Chapter9. Appraisal of the roles of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications in conflict management -- Chapter10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book integrates spatial analysis into the study and management of conflicts, and offers a model in conflict studies that incorporates theoretical explanations of conflict, its causes, and impacts, with a geospatial strategy for intervening in disputes over allocation and use of natural resources (connects theory and practice). Alongside a theoretical analysis of resource conflicts and an account of Participatory Mapping and PGIS development, this book provides a case study of GIS applications in conflict mediation. The book also lays out a practical and straightforward demonstration of PGIS applications in conflict management using a real-world case study, and traces the Participatory Mapping and PGIS movements’ evolution, compares PPGIS and PGIS practices, and makes distinctions between traditional GIS applications and PGIS practice. The approach embodies the enhanced use of spatial information and media, sets of tools for analyzing, mapping, and displaying spatial data and a platform for participatory discussions that enhances consensus-building. The book, therefore, contributes to the search for novel approaches for managing current and emerging conflicts. With this book, resource managers, development practitioners, students, and scholars of Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications and conflict studies will be equipped with the principles, skills, and the tools they need to manage non-violent resource conflicts and keep the disputes from slipping into violence. The book will also be a valuable text for basic and advanced studies in Participatory Mapping and PGIS applications, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management. .
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030741662
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74166-2
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    Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability (2022)
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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.
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    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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    Emerging Issues in Internal Displacement in Africa (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Human geography. ; Africa Politics and government. ; Human rights. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography. ; African Politics. ; Politics and Human Rights.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Emerging issues, internal displacement and regional legal protection in Africa -- Chapter 2. Emerging issues: Conceptual Clarification -- Chapter 3. Emerging issues and internal displacement in Africa: interlinkages -- Chapter 4. Legal protection in emerging contexts -- Chapter 5. Conclusion and Recommendations.
    Abstract: This book focuses on emerging issues related to internal displacement in Africa. The six principal issues discussed are climate change, technology, xenophobia, harmful practices, generalized violence and development projects. Increasingly, the need to understand the root causes of the dimensions of internal displacement and the dimensions in which this displacement manifests have become a pertinent rhetoric in the discussion on internal displacement. Therefore, this monograph examines emerging issues for which there is very little in the internal displacement discussion, with the aim of providing knowledge within African regional contexts to advance law and policy formation. The novelty of this book lies in the fact that it moves beyond the conventional discussion on internal displacement into grey areas on the subject in Africa, leveraging the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (the Kampala Convention). This book will be a significant reference point for researchers, professors, practitioners, judges, policy makers, international organizations, regional bodies, lawyers and scholars in the fields of migration, forced migration, and regional institutions.
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    Pages: VI, 75 p. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030645625
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64562-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64562-5
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    Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure Services (2021)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Sociology. ; Leisure. ; Environmental management. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Human geography. ; Sustainability. ; Leisure Studies. ; Environmental Management. ; Tourism Management. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Sustainable development and leisure services: Changes and trends -- Chapter 2. Algorithmic automation of leisure from a sustainable development perspective -- Chapter 3. The role of leisure in sustainable development -- Chapter 4. Leisure activities and recreation facilities in Nigeria: Implications for wholesome community health -- Chapter 5. Leisure activities and loneliness among people with disabilities -- Chapter 6. Physical activity of male and female university students as a manifestation of sustainable development -- Chapter 7. Selected determinants of recreational and tourist activity of the inhabitants of rural communes of the Poznań Metropolis -- Chapter 8. Rural community prosperity vs. tourism progress: An example of sustainable opportunities -- Chapter 9. Leisure industry and hotels: The importance of wellness services for guests’ well-being -- Chapter 10. Contemporary threats to the development of sustainable urban tourism -- Chapter 11. Rural tourism and its contribution to sustainable development in Jyotisar, Kurukshetra (Haryana), India -- Chapter 12. Sustainable development of rural tourist settlements in Serbia: Building a better future for all -- Chapter 13. A typology of hosts in Housing Tourism -- Chapter 14. Glamping and the development of sustainable tourism: A Portuguese case study -- Chapter 15. Ecotourism as a core of sustainability in tourism -- Chapter 16. Environmental sensibility and human values as a factor of forming European eco-tourist market segments -- Chapter 17. A systems approach to ecotourism, leisure and education in Panamá: A case study -- Chapter 18. Religious tourism and sustainable development: Perspectives from Hill States in India -- Chapter 19. Smart tourism: towards the concept of a data-based travel experience -- Chapter 20. Social media and sustainable tourism marketing: Perceptions of leisure-related enterprises’ owners operating within Viana do Castelo Littoral Geopark.
    Abstract: This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities. Although leading research centers are pursuing interdisciplinary research on leisure in the context of sustainable development, there are still few papers that holistically address the current challenges in this area. In addition, demographic changes have made the promotion of a healthy lifestyle essential. Doing so requires responsible behavior on the part of various stakeholders in this market. This book fills an important gap in the literature and gathers contributions from an interdisciplinary and international team of authors, whose fields of expertise include human geography, management, intersections of sustainability and leisure, behavioral psychology and tourism.
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    Pages: XIX, 318 p. 36 illus., 32 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030598204
    Series Statement: World Sustainability Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4
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    The Landscape of the Sierra Nevada : A Unique Laboratory of Global Processes in Spain (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Ecology . ; Geomorphology. ; Climatology. ; Biodiversity. ; Geography. ; Ecology. ; Geomorphology. ; Climate Sciences. ; Biodiversity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Geographic Uniqueness of the Sierra Nevada in the Context of the Mid-latitude Mountains -- Biotic Uniqueness of the Sierra Nevada as a Hotspot of Biodiversity -- Singular Cultural Landscapes of the Sierra Nevada -- Scientific Knowledge Generated in the Sierra Nevada: Bibliographic Review in WOS Since 1970 -- The Geological Setting -- Glacial Geomorphology of the Massif -- Reconstruction of Past Environments Using Lake Sedimentary Records -- Modern Periglacial Environment and Permafrost -- Variability and Recent Trends -- Snow Dynamics, Hydrology and Erosion -- Altitudinal Migrations and Changes in the Composition of High Mountain Plant Communities -- Altitudinal Migrations and Changes in the Composition of Animal Communities -- Dynamics of Forest Systems Under Land Use and Climatic Change Scenarios -- Resilience of Montane Ecosystems to Major Disturbances (fires) -- Migrations Rivers -- High Mountain Lakes as Remote Sensors of Global Change -- Paleolimnological Indicators of Climate Change -- Atmospheric Inputs and Drastic Alterations in Food Webs and Ecosystems Processes -- Remote Sensors Monitoring of Functional Aspects of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems -- Managing the Uniqueness of Sierra Nevada Ecosystems Under Global Change: Adaptive Projects -- Incorporation of Traditional Knowledge in Agrobiodiversity for a Sustainable Mountain Economy -- Data Model, E-infrastructure Services and Virtual Research Environments (VRE) -- Advancing Open Science in Sierra Nevada: Current Citizen Science Campaigns -- Filling the Gaps in Research, Management and Social Connection.
    Abstract: This book covers the landscape, geography and environment of the Sierra Nevada in Spain. The Sierra Nevada hosted the last glaciers in southern Europe. Today, it is one of the most important centers of plant diversity in the western Mediterranean and one of the most outstanding in Europe. This massif has ideal conditions to analyze past environments as well as the effects of global change on ecosystems. This can be seen in the large number of projects that are being conducted within the umbrella of the Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory. This book summarizes all the scientific knowledge available about this massif, from the geomorphological and ecological perspectives to the recent spatial adaptive management and Open Science initiatives. Focusing on the very sensitive mountain environment of Sierra Nevada, the book intends to be a reference for many people interested in mountain processes. The audience would include scientists from all disciplines, but it would also target on an audience beyond the academia (territorial managers, environmentalists, mountaineers, politicians, technicians, etc.).
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    Pages: XVII, 421 p. 171 illus., 156 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030942199
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94219-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94219-9
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    Relational and Critical Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development : Belonging and Sensing in a Vanishing World (2022)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Teaching. ; Human geography. ; Critical Thinking. ; Geography. ; Pedagogy. ; Human Geography. ; Critical Thinking.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-The wonderment of touching, sensing and naming the more-than human world -- Chapter 2-Being in and through aesthetic forms of expressions reimagining a future world -- Chapter 3-Awareness and subjectification of the more-than-human world -- Chapter 4-Exploring the world in sensuous ways, creating new narratives and asking urgent and severe questions -- Chapter 5-Social Justice and Action Competences in Classroom Practice: The future ‘skills’ of citizenship -- Chapter 6-Introducing disorienting dilemmas: Provoking actions -- Chapter 7-Creating spaces for negotiation, imagining and listening: Stretching situated moments of critical literacy in whole class discussion -- Chapter 8-Addressing anxiety: To linger, confirm and give hope -- Chapter 9-Transformative learning: Creating new identities -- Chapter 10-Take a stance: Facilitating students’ decision-making.
    Abstract: This volume focuses on the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), education, to look at sustainability from various angles with the purpose of challenging preconceptions about what sustainable education might entail and how it should be conducted. To this end, the book assembles scholars from various research fields and disciplines, who are willing to be at the cutting edge regarding sustainability and education on all levels with students in the ages of 6-15. Through this approach, the text points towards a “wild pedagogy” in line with post-sustainable thinking. This involves agency and the role of nature itself as a co-educator, and promotes cultural changes, and explorative processes of finding “the wild” – the unknown, and complexity in nature – and thus of challenging the human need for control. This approach is also, in line with the 2030 Agenda, an attempt to move from advocating predetermined behavioural change to embracing a pluralistic perspective on sustainability, based on holistic views on education. Such views include curiosity, wonderment, compassion and agency as guiding lights. The book is structured into three sections, based on three interrelated strands. These strands are, in various ways, dependent on one another and further engaged with bringing education theory and practice together. These strands are 1) Belonging and sensing, 2) Critical thinking, social justice and action competence, and 3) Creating hope in a vanishing world. These strands aim to increase our access to and understanding of the ways in which sustainability can be integrated into education and why. The purpose of the text is to encourage educators of all kinds and levels, as well as scholars in different fields, to explore new perspectives on education for sustainable development. The book examines probes in diverse academic fields and focuses on how to combine different approaches and content, and therefore everyone interested in interdisciplinary and cross-curricular teaching and learning should find this work enlightening. .
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    Pages: XXVII, 186 p. 42 illus., 40 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030845100
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84510-0
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84510-0
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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. .
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    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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    Sustainable Mountain Development : Getting the facts right (2022)
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    Keywords: Sustainability. ; Geography. ; Environmental management. ; Sustainability. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Global Mountain Awareness -- Chapter2. An International Mountain Involvement: The Beginnings -- Chapter3. Mountain Strategy in Munich, 1974: On Track to the Himalaya -- Chapter4. Darjeeling: Personal Awakening to High Mountains and Refugees -- Chapter5. Moscow and the Caucasus: The IGU in the Cold War -- Chapter6. United Nations University: Agency with a Mountain Mission -- Chapter7. Himalayan Reconnaissance 1978: Deforestation, Landslides, and Farmers -- Chapter8. The China Connection: Privileged Entry to a Closed Country -- Chapter9. Beyond Lhasa: Opening China to Collaborative Mountain Research -- Chapter10. Breakthrough: Environmental Degradation Theory Overturned -- Chapter11. China Revisited 1985: Yunnan and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains -- Chapter12. The Mohonk Process: Mobilization of the Mountain Advocates -- Chapter13. Mountain Road to Rio: The UN Earth Summit 1992 -- Chapter14. Return to China 1991–1996: Mountain People of Yunnan and Mass Tourism -- Chapter15. Roof of the World: The Pamir, 1999: “A Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions” -- Chapter16. Threatened Disasters in the Pamir and Himalaya -- Chapter17. The Evolution of the Mountain Cause. .
    Abstract: This second edition of “Sustainable Mountain Development” is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973. This provided intellectual input into UNESCO’s MAB Programme, especially MAB-6 (Impact of Human Activities on Mountain Environments), The International Geographical Union’s commission on mountains, and The United Nations University’s (UNU) mountain project, the latter initiated in 1978. All this research and intellectual activity saw its maturation during the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. The major document universally agreed upon was AGENDA 21, with Chapter 13 concentrating on mountain environmental problems which led to 2002 being dedicated as The International Year of Mountains, and December 17th as International Mountain Day. The research that inspired this book, accompanied by intensive environmental and political activity, was initially propagated by a small group of colleagues that ultimately expanded to a world-wide endeavour. The work was recognised by three awards of the King Albert Gold Medal, two RGS Gold Medals, approved by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and countless other awards. It led to the founding of the International Mountain Society in 1980 and its quarterly journal “Mountain Research and Development” (1981). The work expanded into subsequent research efforts, including specific assessments of projected major catastrophes such as the status of the potential outbreak of glacier lakes (GLOFs), the impacts of climate warming, and incorporation of the mountain subsistence men and women whose environmental knowledge was enthusiastically recognized. This edition provides a new epilogue, which outlines the considerable changes to world environmental assessment since the establishment of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains, and notes that 2022 has been designated as the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development.
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    Pages: XVI, 301 p. 152 illus., 136 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030960292
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96029-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96029-2
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    Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries (2021)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Science Study and teaching. ; Bioclimatology. ; Engineering geology. ; Landscape architecture. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Science Education. ; Climate Change Ecology. ; Geoengineering. ; Landscape Architecture. ; Earth Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Evaluation of the Sustainable Building Materials for Economic Housing in Egypt -- The Architectural Design of Outdoor Spaces in Oncology Hospitals. Toward Achieving Social Sustainability for Oncology Patients -- Visual Comfort in Elder Care Facilities: Promoting Environmental Gerontology Theory -- The Relation Between Walking and Urban Form: Identifying Gaps in Egyptian Literature -- Heritage Sites: Towards Creative Ambiance in Public Spaces Attached - Impact of Creative Ambiance on Societal Development -- Understanding challenges/barriers and the motivations of farmers to adopt Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs): case study of Sumerpur Tehsil of Rajasthan, India -- Sustainable Living Fences (SLF): To Develop the Function and Form of Universities’ Fences. (Based on Value Architecture) -- Toward a Sustainable Design of the Rehabilitation Centers For Addiction -- Toward Resiliency through Sustainable Urban Formation in Baghdad -- Improving Sustainability in Indian Cities through Expansion of Edible Green Spaces: Exploring Million Plus Cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.
    Abstract: This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources. Today it has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, protect habitats, and preserve the delicate ecosystems of our planet. Accordingly, sustainable development has to be improved by decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources, in order to help nature replenish itself. Further, it highlights the efforts that have been made by architects, environmentalists, engineers, students, planners and everyone in between in order to improve sustainability in various developing communities and countries.
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    Pages: XV, 324 p. 214 illus., 183 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030743499
    Series Statement: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74349-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74349-9
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    Hidden Geographies (2021)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Geography. ; Economic geography. ; Physical geography. ; Human ecology Study and teaching. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Human Geography. ; Geography. ; Economic Geography. ; Physical Geography. ; Environmental Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing hidden geographies -- Conceptualising hidden geographies -- Cognitive geography. Space reflected in the mind -- Symbolization in (of) space. Theory and practices -- Geographies of the sacred: The mystical literature as a source of knowledge -- Part II: Hidden environmental geographies -- Soils – A hidden world: A case study of soil sequences on carbonate parent materials in Slovenia -- Uncovering spatio-temporal air pollution exposure patterns during commutes to create an open-data endpoint for routing purposes -- Burden of the coastal area with solid waste in Kornati National Park (Croatia) -- Potential for the development of astronomical tourism in Kumano City, Mie Prefecture, Japan -- Part IV: Hidden historical and sacred places -- Visualising the subterranean: Tunnels and flows beneath a Welsh lead mining landscape -- Hidden geographies of the XVI Century road Network and trade in Georgia's portion of the Silk Road -- Boundary stones and their "Hidden" legacy in Slovenia -- The monastic Carthusian space -- Part V: Hidden urban geographies -- Hidden urban geographies, the case of Barcelona.
    Abstract: This book defines and discusses the term “hidden geographies” in two ways: systematically and by presenting a variety of examples of the research fields and topics concerning hidden geographies, with the aim of stimulating further basic and applied research in this area. While the term is quite rarely used in the scientific literature (more often as a figure of speech than to illustrate or problematize its deeper meaning), we argue that hidden geographies are everywhere and many of them have significant impacts on (other) natural and social phenomena and processes, subsequently triggering changes, for example in landscape, economy, culture, health or quality of life. The introductory section of the book conceptualises hidden geographies and discusses cognitive geography, symbolization of space, and the hidden geographies in mystical literature. Case studies of hidden environmental geographies address soils, air pollution, coastal pollution and the allocation of an astronomical tourism site. Revealing hidden historical and sacred places is illustrated through examples of the visualisation of the subterranean mining landscape, the analysis of the historical road network and trade, border stones and historical spatial boundaries, and the monastic Carthusian space. Hidden urban geographies are discussed in terms of the urban development of an entire city, presenting the role of geography in rescuing architecture, revealing illegal urbanisation, and the quality of habitation in Roma neighbourhoods. Case studies of hidden population geographies shed light on the ageing of rural populations and the impact of spatial-demographic disparities on fertility variations. Discussions of hidden social and economic geographies problematize recent social changes and conflicts in a country, present the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution and borders as hidden obstacles in the organisation of public transport. Hidden geographies are explicitly linked to perceptions and explanations in case studies that address local responses to perceived marginalisation in a city, the solo women travellers’ perceived risk and safety, and hidden geographical contexts of visible post-war landscapes. The book brings such a diversity of views, ideas and examples related to hidden geographies that can serve both to deepen their understanding and their various impacts on our lives and environment, and to attract further cross-disciplinary interest in considering hidden geographies – in research and in our every-day lives.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030745905
    Series Statement: Key Challenges in Geography, EUROGEO Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74590-5
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    East Asian Architecture in Globalization : Values, Inheritance and Dissemination (2021)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Cultural property. ; Asia History. ; Human Geography. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Asian History.
    Description / Table of Contents: (0) Table of Contents -- (1) Introduction (to be written by the EAAC 2017 Editorial Board).-(2) Selected papers related to Topic A: Historical and Theoretical Research -- (3) Selected papers related to Topic B: Conservation Methodology and Technology -- (4) Selected papers related to Topic C: Adaptive Reuse -- (5) Selected papers related to Topic D: Community Design -- (6) Index -- (7) List of Contributors.
    Abstract: This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered around the core issue of globalization and its complex effects on East Asian architectural cultures, the selected papers were arranged into four major sub-topics: Historical & Theoretical Research; Conservation Methodology & Technology; Adaptive Reuse; and Community Design. All together, this collection showcases the most recent disciplinary developments in East Asian countries, as well as the main concerns and prospects of leading practitioners. The wide range of contributions and perspectives included here in English language for a global audience should be of considerable appeal to all scholars and professionals in the fields of architectural and urban design, history of the built environment, and heritage conservation policies and methods.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030759377
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75937-7
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    Design and Technological Applications in Sustainable Architecture : The perspective of China, Japan, Singapore and Thailand (2021)
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    Keywords: Geography. ; Sustainable architecture. ; Urban ecology (Biology). ; Buildings Design and construction. ; Restoration Ecology. ; Geography. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. ; Urban Ecology. ; Building Construction and Design. ; Restoration Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- Study on Mechanism of Climate Response and Ecological Restoration in High Density Urban Area. Chapter 2 -- Ecological Process and Security under the Intensification of Urban Agglomeration Development. Chapter 3 -- Seoul Botanic Park, Inventing New Type of Sustainable Park. Chapter 4 -- Ecological Restoration Design Integrated with City Life. Chapter 5 -- Solar Power Singapore. Chapter 6 -- Research on Practical Application of Healthy Building in South China. Chapter 7 -- Performance-based Evaluation on Biophilic Design Qualities of Outdoor Spaces: BUCEA Campus as a Case Study. Chapter 8 -- Current Status of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Home – From Literature and Product. Chapter 9 -- Consideration of Sustainable Design. Chapter 10 -- Automatic Generation of 3D House Models with Solar Photovoltaic Generation. Chapter 11 -- Performance-driven Design Methods of Building Shape: Investigations based on Acoustics and Daylight. Chapter 12 -- Design and Climate-Responsiveness Performance Evaluation of an Integrated Envelope for Modular Prefabricated Buildings. Chapter 13 -- Meso-scale Urban Environmental Performance Evaluation in High Density Urban Context. Chapter 14 -- The Passive in Singapore: Revolution of Green Building Rating System.
    Abstract: This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation. The four sections of the text cover the theory and implementation of sustainable architecture within various geographic boundaries and contexts, offering an interdisciplinary assessment of the challenges faced in urban areas at different climate zones. The main topics covered are: 1) urban ecological restoration under the influence of climate environment; 2) health and human considerations of building and environment; 3) prototype optimization of sustainable building, and 4) feedback of building performance and design evaluation. The book is intended to be a contribution to the growing body of knowledge on sustainable architecture for applicable use by practitioners, city planners, field researchers, and building operators in building design, construction, usage, operation, and maintenance.
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030800345
    Series Statement: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80034-5
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    Urban and Transit Planning : A Culmination of Selected Research Papers from IEREK Conferences on Urban Planning, Architecture and Green Urbanism, Italy and Netherlands (2017) (2020)
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    Keywords: Human geography. ; Transportation engineering. ; Traffic engineering. ; Sustainable architecture. ; Buildings Design and construction. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Sustainability. ; Human Geography. ; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering. ; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings. ; Building Construction and Design. ; Urban Sociology. ; Sustainability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainability and the Built Environment -- Urban and Environmental Planning -- Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transportation -- Environmental Transformation: Energy Efficient Urban Areas & Renewable Energy Generation -- Quality of Life & Environmental Management Systems.
    Abstract: A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands. This book, not only discusses environmental challenges of the world today, but also informs the reader of the new technologies, tools, and approaches used today for successful planning and development as well as new and upcoming ones. Chapters of this book provide in-depth debates on fields of environmental planning and management, transportation planning, renewable energy generation and sustainable urban land use. It addresses long-term issues as well as short-term issues of land use and transportation in different parts of the world in hopes of improving the quality of life. Topics within this book include: (1) Sustainability and the Built Environment (2) Urban and Environmental Planning (3) Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transportation (4) Energy Efficient Urban Areas & Renewable Energy Generation (5) Quality of Life & Environmental Management Systems. This book is a useful source for academics, researchers and practitioners seeking pioneering research in the field.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XII, 589 p. 399 illus., 397 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030173081
    Series Statement: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17308-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17308-1
    DDC: 304.2
    Language: English
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    Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 255 : Glyphosate (2021)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography. ; Environmental management. ; Food Safety measures. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; Environmental Management. ; Food Safety.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Glyphosate: Uses Other than in Glyphosate-Resistant Crops, Mode of Action, Degradation in Plants, and Effects on Non-Target Plants and Agricultural Microbes -- 2. History and Outlook for Glyphosate-Resistant Crops -- 3. Ecotoxicology of Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds -- 4. Ecotoxicology of Glyphosate, its Formulants, and Environmental Degradation Products.
    Abstract: Glyphosate: Uses Other than in Glyphosate-Resistant Crops, Mode of Action, Degradation in Plants, and Effects on Non-Target Plants and Agricultural Microbes Stephen O. Duke History and Outlook for Glyphosate-Resistant Crops Jerry M. Green and Daniel L. Siehl Evolution of Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Yousoon Baek, Lucas Kopecky Bobadilla, Darci A. Giacomini, Jacob S. Montgomery, Brent P. Murphy, and Patrick J. Tranel Ecotoxicology of Glyphosate, its formulants, and Fnvironmental Degradation Products José L. Rodríguez-Gil, Ryan S. Prosser, Stephen O. Duke, and Keith R. Solomon.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVII, 205 p. 10 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030684839
    Series Statement: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Continuation of Residue Reviews, 255
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68483-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68483-9
    DDC: 500
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    Handbook of Dynamics and Probability (2022)
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    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Geography Mathematics. ; Climatology. ; Geography. ; Mathematics. ; Statistics . ; Earth Sciences. ; Mathematics of Planet Earth. ; Climate Sciences. ; Earth and Environmental Sciences. ; General Mathematics. ; Statistics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- I Dynamics -- Deterministic dynamical systems -- Linear and integrable systems -- Stability and long-time behavior -- Ergodic theory -- Numerical Algorithms -- II Probability -- Probability Theory -- Discrete-time stochastic processes -- Continuous-time stochastic processes -- Information entropy -- III Probability in dynamical evolution -- Time evolution of broadened initial states -- Stochastic processes generated by observables -- Stochastic dynamical systems -- IV Probability in scientific reasoning -- Interpretations of probability -- Parameter estimation and hypothesis testing -- Bayesian inferences -- V Probability in physics -- Equilibrium statistical mechanics -- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics -- Foundational issues of statistical mechanics -- Quantum Mechanics -- A Classical Mechanics -- B Thermostatics -- C Fluid dynamics -- D Some proofs and explicit computations -- E Mathematical tools, conventions and notation -- References -- Index.
    Abstract: Our time is characterized by an explosive growth in the use of ever more complicated and sophisticated (computer) models. These models rely on dynamical systems theory for the interpretation of their results and on probability theory for the quantification of their uncertainties. A conscientious and intelligent use of these models requires that both these theories are properly understood. This book is to provide such understanding. It gives a unifying treatment of dynamical systems theory and probability theory. It covers the basic concepts and statements of these theories, their interrelations, and their applications to scientific reasoning and physics. The book stresses the underlying concepts and mathematical structures but is written in a simple and illuminating manner without sacrificing too much mathematical rigor. The book is aimed at students, post-docs, and researchers in the applied sciences who aspire to better understand the conceptual and mathematical underpinnings of the models that they use. Despite the peculiarities of any applied science, dynamics and probability are the common and indispensable tools in any modeling effort. The book is self-contained, with many technical aspects covered in appendices, but does require some basic knowledge in analysis, linear algebra, and physics. Peter Müller, now a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, has worked extensively on ocean and climate models and the foundations of complex system theories.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 543 p. 68 illus., 1 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030884864
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88486-4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88486-4
    DDC: 550
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