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  • Transforming Cities with Transit

    Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, Kanako Iuchi ...
    Series series Urban Development
    'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing cities, transit and land-use integration is increasingly being embraced by policy-makers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Reconstruction and Restoration

    Insights and Assessment after 5 Years

    Edited by Vicente Santiago-Fandiño, Shinji Sato, Norio Maki, Kanako Iuchi ...
    Series Book 47 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    This book covers the restoration and reconstruction process and activities undertaken in Japan in the first five years since the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami – a period widely considered to be the most intensive reconstruction phase within the 10-year restoration plan drawn up by the Japanese Government.The respective chapters explore technical, scientific, social and non-scientific (policy-related ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    by Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

    Edited by Belinda Yuen, Anthony G.O. Yeh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development.Even though ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cities at Risk

    Living with Perils in the 21st Century

    Edited by Tiziana Rossetto, Helene Joffe, John Adams ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Sand Dune Conservation, Management and Restoration

    by J. Patrick Doody ...
    Series Book 4 - Coastal Research Library
    This book deals with the development of temperate coastal sand dunes and the way these have been influenced by human activity. The different states in which the habitat exists both for the beach/foredune and inland dune are reviewed against the pressures exerted upon them. Options for management are considered and the likely consequences of taking a particular course of action highlighted. These ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities

    Edited by Gaetano Manfredi, Domenico Asprone, Paolo Gasparini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Internal Impact and External Influence of the Greek Financial Crisis

    Edited by John Marangos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This contributed volume explores the political economy and socioeconomic aspects of the Greek Financial Crisis both within the country's borders and as part of the global economy. With chapters authored by international experts, this book examines and explicitly deals with specific and important issues that have been ignored by the dominant socioeconomic theory and practice, which have largely ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Geographical Data Acquisition

    Edited by Yong-Qi Chen, Yuk-Cheung Lee ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is a book about techniques used in the acquisition of geographical data. The target audience is students and professionals using geographical information systems who want to go beyond the operation of the software and discover the general principles of how raw geographical data are acquired. By "raw" data we mean da ta acquired directly from the field, from photographs, or from maps but wh ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Institutional Position of Seaports

    An International Comparison

    by H. Stevens ...
    Series Book 51 - GeoJournal Library
    The phenomenon of international seaport administration is the subject of this book. As a Ph.D.-student at the Delft University of Technology (period 1993 - 1997) I had the opportunity to develop and exercise my hobby on a full time base. The result was a Ph.D.-dissertation which was defended in December 1997. Unfortunately, these research results were published in Dutch while the majority of the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD