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Globalization and Environmental Challenges : Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century

This book contiants chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; ...

Governance of Arctic Shipping Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation

This is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant ...

Green Economy in the Transport Sector : A Case Study of Limpopo Province, South Africa

This book provides policy framework on “towards a Green Economy in the Transport Sector” draws inspiration from the UNEP ...

Greening the Greyfields : New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of Low-Density Cities

This book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges ...

Groundwater Dynamics in Hard Rock Aquifers : Sustainable Management and Optimal Monitoring Network Design

Groundwater is of utmost importance in the arid and semi-arid environment. The areas in such regions are forced to face a ...

Groundwater Management in Asian Cities : Technology and Policy for Sustainability

The number of city dwellers who do not have access to piped water and rely on groundwater is also increasing. In many Asian ...

Herbals of Asia : Prevalent Diseases and Their Treatments / Khafsa Malik, Mushtaq Ahmad, Münir Öztürk, Volkan Altay, Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana

Excellent source of information by identifying hundreds of medicinal herbs and unfolding their medicinal uses for treatment ...

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

This book aims to provide case studies and a general view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring ...

High-Quality Outdoor Learning : Evidence-based Education Outside the Classroom for Children, Teachers and Society / Rolf Jucker, Jakob von Au

Reviews evidence and case studies on the effects of outdoor learning on teachers and learners. It shows how real-world learning ...

Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility IMISCOE Short Reader

This book discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing ...

Historical Seismology : Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes

Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is ...

Housing Estates in Europe

This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

Human-Nature Interactions : Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes / Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl

Highlights how humans value nature, the opportunities and challenges in changing socio-ecological systems Provides insights ...

Icons of Space : Advances in Hierotopy / Jelena Bogdanovic

Brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

This book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The ...

Insect Conservation and Islands

A series of original papers and reviews dealing with the peculiarities of island insects and their conservation in many parts ...

International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet

Little notice was taken of the first web map but the development of Internet cartography since has been nothing but remarkable. ...

Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

This book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing ...

Knowledge and Action

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and ...

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