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  • Geographies of Urban Governance

    Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices

    Edited by Joyeeta Gupta, Karin Pfeffer, Hebe Verrest, Mirjam Ros-Tonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming rapidly, impacting human welfare, economic development and urban-regional landscapes. This poses new challenges to urban governance, while ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • 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

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Edited by Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Transitions to Sustainability

    Edited by François Mancebo, Ignacy Sachs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cadastre: Geo-Information Innovations in Land Administration

    Edited by John McLaughlin, Tahsin Yomralioglu ...
    This book highlights the latest improvements in cadastre with examples and case studies from various parts of the world. Authors from different continents, in association with national and international organizations and societies, present the most comprehensive forum to date for cadastre, offering a broad overview of land administration and contemporary perspectives on current research and ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Read more

    $143.99 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

  • Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas

    Edited by Tarek Rashed, Carsten Jürgens ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    "Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas" provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses. Topics have been chosen to bridge the gap between remote sensing and urban studies through a better understanding of the science that underlies both fields. In so doing, the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models

    A Survey of Current Applications and Research

    Edited by Subhrajit Guhathakurta ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research" that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University. The idea for the symposium arose from a belief held by many academics that we are at the watershed of a new generation of models that are more dynamic, more pragmatic, more interdiscipli ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Map Construction Algorithms

    by Mahmuda Ahmed, Sophia Karagiorgou, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of map construction algorithms, which use tracking data in the form of trajectories to generate vector maps. The most common trajectory type is GPS-based trajectories. It introduces three emerging algorithmic categories, outlines their general algorithmic ideas, and discusses three representative algorithms in greater detail.To quantify map ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • GeoComputational Analysis and Modeling of Regional Systems

    Edited by Jean-Claude Thill, Suzana Dragicevic ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of regional contexts. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD