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Framing in Sustainability Science Theoretical and Practical Approaches

This book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines ...

Fundamental Trends in City Development

This book inquires into how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions ...

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 ...

Handbook of Urban Health

As more people worldwide live in cities, increasingly we need to understand how cities and city living affect population ...

Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

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

Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization

Drawing upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations ...

Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It ...

Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory / Charles Waldheim

Traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing ...

Legitimacy In European Nature Conservation Policy : Case Studies In Multilevel Governance

This volume focuses on the issue of legitimacy in the context of European nature conservation policy. It provides insights ...

Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games Planning Legacies

This book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los ...

Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change

This book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. ...

Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action

This book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological ...

Maritime Spatial Planning

This book is the first comprehensive overview of maritime spatial planning. Situated at the intersection between theory and ...

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

This book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies ...

Modelling Environmental Dynamics : Advances in Geomatic Solutions

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response ...

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

This book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. ...

Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, ...

Object-Based Image Analysis : Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications

This book discusses means, technologies and approaches related to the processing and analysis of multi-sensor, multi-resolution ...

Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

This book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics ...

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