Environmental Assessment and Monitoring of Agrisilvicultural Systems -- Environmental Impacts and Restoration Ecology of Natural and Agricultural Habitats -- Investigations and Applications in Environmental Biotechnology -- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Marine Biodiversity and Terrestrial Paleobiodiversity -- Socio-economics of Geotourism and Archaeology.This edited volume is based on the best pap…
1.Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River -- 2.Salween: What’s in a Name? -- 3.Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River -- 4.From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River -- 5.Rites, Rights and Water Justice in Karen State: A Case Study of Community-based Water Governance and the Hatgyi Dam -- 6.Contested Water Go…
Foreword -- Preface -- Index -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene -- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS -- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability -- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya -- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways -- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH -- Chapter 5 Sustain…
Introduction: Traditional Alpine Communities and the Challenge of Long-term Sustainability -- The Landholding Foundations of Alpine Farming -- Face to the Sun: the Exploitation of Arable -- The Ties that Bind: Livestock Farming in the Western Alps 1500-1914 -- The Alpine Commons: Resource, Regulation and Exploitation 1500-1914 -- The Alpage of the Western Alps -- Coping with Risk 1500-1914 -- E…
Soils Sealed by Technic Hard Materials in Urban and Traffic Areas -- Soils constructed on Ski Slopes -- Soils on River Embankments -- Soils in Historical Urban Parks -- Soils on Coastal Berms for Reproducing the Coastal Forests Damaged by the Mega-tsunami -- Soils Filled in Swamplands behind Coastal Sand Dunes to Prevent Coastal Disaster -- Geotechnical Issues for Developing Coastal Waste-Landf…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The course floods in the study areas and their consequences -- Chapter 3. Changeability of the spatial image of flood over time -- Chapter 4. Social vulnerability as a factor in flood preparedness -- Chapter 5. Online flood risk communication -- Chapter 6. Planning documents as a source of information about flood risk -- Chapter 7. Discussion and conclusion…
Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Remote sensing Digital Image Processing in R -- Chapter 2. Pre-processing -- Chapter 3. Image Transformation,etc.This book offers an introduction to remotely sensed image processing and classification in R using machine learning algorithms. It also provides a concise and practical reference tutorial, which equ…
Chapter 1: Introduction to Outdoor Recreation and Recreation Ecology.-Chapter 2: Recreational Walking -- Chapter 3 Mountain Marathons, Adventure Racing, and Mountain Tours -- Chapter 4 Recreational Climbing and Scrambling -- Chapter 5 Gorge Walking, Canyoneering, or Canyoning -- Chapter 6 Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles, Including Snowmobiling -- Chapter 7 Mountain Biking -- Chapter 8 Camping…
1.0 Setting the Scene -- 2.0 Contemporary Geoethics within Geosciences -- 3.0 Exploring Societal Intersections of Geoethical Thinking -- 4.0 Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche -- 5.0 Reframing Geoethics?This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system. It…
1. Geography and Ecological Sustainability -- 2. Ecological Security Assessment -- 3. From Urban Remote Sensing to Urban Sensing -- 4. Green Development Strategies for Shanxi Province, China -- 5. Lessons for the Future from Perspectives of the Last Great Global Warming -- 6. Soil Security Utilization and Spatial Regulation in the Pearl River Delta, China -- 7. Urbanization in the Pearl River D…