Geography, Environment, Earth Sciences & Planning Books

This book introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia's eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra's highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu, which descends from...

Many new challenges including competitiveness are emerging for sustainable business during this era of disruption. This book analyses these challenges to sustainable development and growth and addresses the impact of corporate social responsibility on...

This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development, as...

Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis and it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation to map out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. Valuable reading for scholars and students in the fields of...

Emphasizing model choice and model averaging, this book presents Bayesian methods for analyzing complex ecological data. Providing a basic introduction to Bayesian methods, the book includes detailed descriptions of methods that deal with covariate data...

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of 'second generation' ANT scholars from around the world, it...

This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment. Readers will learn how to extract valuable information on global changes from a 20-year...

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene. This book will be particularly useful to academics,...

This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

This volume brings together academics working at differing intersections of environmental education and new materialisms, highlighting tensions, knots, and lines of flight across and for research, practice, and theory. This book was originally published...

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of...

This book explores the myriad issues that play out in the upstream petroleum industry of Ghana from a legal perspective.

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena.

This book provides 14 country reports to discuss the critical jobs and skills needed to achieve long-term policies and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will interest researchers in human resource management and development,...

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

This book examines the relationship between business-based peacebuilding and the opportunities that emerge from the pluralisation of regulation.

The key argument of this book is that even if we see a development towards feudal capitalism, a more just and moral capitalism can be restored through various social mechanisms such as changes in the institutional framework, the development of a balanced...

This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse. A vegan practice may help mitigate crises such as climate change, global health challenges, and sharpening socioeconomic disparities, by ensuring both fairness in the treatment of animals...

This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation.

This is the first book to examine Britain's geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in...

Gadjeva uses Kyoto as a case study to explore the innovative mechanisms being used to promote Japanese culture and cultural properties since the outbreak of COVID-19. A valuable read for professionals and scholars of cultural and tourism studies, that...

'Business Groups and the Thailand Economy' examines the role of business groups, specifically state, local and foreign capitals in the economic development of emerging economies and highlights why business groups are essential in helping a country break...

This interdisciplinary book combines digital technology with Eastern Philosophy to examine how the concept of Zhongyong in Confucianism can be used to coordinate digital technology with sustainable agriculture.

American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of US colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space.

Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how does it occur; how do we measure it; and what does it mean for our future.

This book provides geographical perspectives on complex and multifaceted relationship between people and their lived environments. Scholars with varied regional, theoretical and topical specialties offer chapters that explore aspects of a phenomenon so...

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and...

This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada.

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household,...

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water scarcity.

This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism could lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices, and community structures.

This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban...

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey.

This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. It will appeal to scholars, educators, and students with an interest in the environmental humanities, ecopolitics, ecocriticism,...

Physiology of Growth and Development in Horticultural Plants contains 22 chapters organized into six sections, beginning with an introduction on basic concepts of plant growth and development; followed by genetic basis of plant development;...

The Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management examines irrigated ecosystems in which water storage, applications, or drainage volumes are artificially controlled in the landscape and the spatial domain of processes varies from micrometers to tens...

From the moon, as I fell is a collection of poems and paintings birthed from the creative inquiry that arises in a time of isolation, anxiety, and self-reliance during quarantine. Herein are what poet L.I. Henley and painter...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain. Yet these services are currently being decimated as...

The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a...

Presenting a critical evaluation of the evidence supporting claims of rupture of, or incursions into, the Neoliberal model, this book presents an informed, constructive dialogue around the thesis that we have reached some institutional and...

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. Featuring contributions from both up and coming and well-established...

Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially...

Kyoto is both a popular destination for tourists and home to one and a half million inhabitants.  There is lively debate about how best to develop the city, involving a variety of stakeholders, forming a particlar social arena that has no match...