It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from both environmental and social sciences. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of wetland management, environment...Daugiau...
This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute to urban planning and design. Planning and design strategies are presented through case studies from around the globe that highlight the importance of spiritual wellness consideration...Daugiau...
Forty city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals celebrate Donald Shoups contributions to parking research, practice, and education, and demonstrate how his ideas about parking reform can support affordable housing development...Daugiau...
This book considers how development cooperation principles and practices can be made more inclusive and impactful. Global development researchers and students will benefit from the books ingenious blending of sector-specific insights and broader dis...Daugiau...
Thoroughly updated and reorganized to focus more on applications and problem solving by mathematical techniques, this book explains the basic architecture of computing as it relates to GIS, includes new application examples of selected mathematical...Daugiau...
Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity....Daugiau...
Rivers have long been the lifeblood of civilizations, shaping landscapes, sustaining livelihoods, and serving as silent witnesses to the unfolding narratives of human history....Daugiau...
This book documents and disseminates learning around education for sustainable development and associated pedagogical approaches, techniques and experiences that have been generated across the Master of Development Practice (MDP) Global Association...Daugiau...
This book provides a comprehensive insight into health disparities in both the United States and China. It offers valuable perspectives on public health and policy through an examination of the spatial, social, and environmental dimensions of health...Daugiau...
This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing. It introduces state-of the-art techniques and methods applied hydr...Daugiau...
This book explores the profound impacts of gentrification on public health, examining how this process reshapes socioeconomic and physical environments, exacerbates health disparities, and influences lived experiences....Daugiau...
This book uniquely highlights the vital role of ICTs in migration decisions, journeys, and settlement, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It provides a balanced mix of theoretical analysis and practical insights, helping readers compr...Daugiau...
This book provides a concise guide to navigating, mapping, and understanding the complexity of political mechanisms and narratives behind transport cooperation....Daugiau...
The book looks at how artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, and multi-criteria decision making could be used to come up with strategies for building resilience and achieving sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region....Daugiau...
Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners....Daugiau...
Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global...Daugiau...
This book offers a comprehensive framework for fostering sustainable tourism communities, providing actionable strategies to balance economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity. It serves as a vital resource for professionals and...Daugiau...
This edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities. Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the rea...Daugiau...
Presenting a rich collection of insights into investment by foreign corporations into different types of cities around the world, Foreign Direct Investment and Cities uses original and revelatory case studies to help readers to turn theory into prac...Daugiau...
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal...Daugiau...
Focuses on tropical dry forests in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in recent years, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Case studies included analyze the biophysical prop...Daugiau...
The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes....Daugiau...
Contested Waste examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies....Daugiau...
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived,...Daugiau...
Using key concepts from systems thinking, complexity sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences, the book frames a systemic spatial design approach aimed at enhancing the potential of different spatial design disciplines to nav...Daugiau...
Volume 1 of Remote Sensing of LCLUC in South and Southeast Asia handbook showcases the practical utility of remote sensing data for effective LCLUC mapping and monitoring. It provides case studies on urban expansion, deforestation, and agricultural...Daugiau...
Volume 2 of Remote Sensing of LCLUC in South and Southeast Asia handbook explores the complex, dynamic interactions between land use, development, and the environment in the region. With contributions from NASA and regional experts, it highlights th...Daugiau...
This book identifies and discusses opportunities and constraints in applying the sustainability paradigm to urbanization. It integrates this wide concept with local competitiveness and focuses on the role of both general and specific political actio...Daugiau...
With contributions by over 70 leading scholars from across the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences, this handbook explores the interrelationships that have emerged from environmental changes, development endeavors, and individual and co...Daugiau...
This book explores the unique challenges faced by rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including urban crime, informality, land governance, development control, and the degradation of green spaces, as well as how these issues are addressed...Daugiau...
This book equips readers with tools and insights needed to address the pressing challenges of urban livability and inclusiveness in the face of neoliberal urbanism....Daugiau...
This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology. This book is an important read for researchers, advocates and other stakeholders working in the fields of environmental philosophy, climate change, indigenous...Daugiau...
The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England. The account of regional change is framed in terms of...Daugiau...
This comprehensive handbook covers human mobility within urban contexts, integrating academic theories with pragmatic insights offering a detailed analysis of the diverse facets of human mobility and its substantial impact on the urban landscape, ec...Daugiau...
The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans Christian Andersen it also made huge impact on literature: on genres, themes, style. This book is about this commotion, this literary...Daugiau...
This book explores humanitys complex relationship with water and the law, offering a critical assessment and a path toward a more sustainable, just water future. It will interest students and scholars of water law, security, and justice across disci...Daugiau...
This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning sixty years and two distinct political regimes. This comprehensive assessment from Irans foremost rural sociologist will be an important read for researchers and profession...Daugiau...
First Published in 1965, The Climate of London considers the nature of Londons climate, including the manner and degree to which this varies in sympathy with changes in the citys morphology, and studying in particular the contrasts between the buil...Daugiau...
Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, this book charts the occurrence of a range of radical social changes as the locality adapts itself to processes of globalization, broadening its analysis to as to offer a theoretical account of the dynam...Daugiau...
The Cauvery Basin is one of the most known and geologically important basins of India and has been, for decades, and still is, the focus of study. This comprehensive multidisciplinary collection addresses various aspects of the Cauvery Basin and the...Daugiau...
Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book contributes with a multiplicity of knowledge to the growing appetite for interdisciplinary initiatives at universities....Daugiau...
This book analyses visitor responses to the interpretation of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Australian protected areas, focusing on Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New...Daugiau...
This book stimulates and contributes to the search for strategic approaches to the production, maintenance and management of urban low-income group housing and the historical, geographic, cultural/political and economic contexts within which it is s...Daugiau...
This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Chapters outline options for successfully transitioning bus...Daugiau...
The book offers a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to art, culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy, in the context of green transition as an indispe...Daugiau...
This book explores the politicization of space and the socio-political engagement of cities that are increasingly being shaped by capitalism and neoliberal governance. It will be invaluable reading to planners, designers, artists and other actors to...Daugiau...
This edited collection explores how national airlines in postcolonial states operate at the complex intersection of corporate branding, cultural governance, tourism development, and national identity formation....Daugiau...
The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlins standard housing type and its principal urban component the citys ubiquitous typology....Daugiau...
