Gary Austin.
GREATER KENYIR: LANDSCAPE, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY -- The weather and climate of tropical Kenyir Lake, Terengganu -- Water quality status in Kenyir Lake, Malaysia: a preliminary assessment -- Comparative study of physico-chemical analyses of different water sources in Setiu Wetland, Terengganu -- A baseline assessment on the distributions and sources of aliphatic and…
Part1. Resettlement Challenges of Refugees -- Chapter1. Resettling Syrian Refugees in Canada: Challenges Faced by Non-Governmental Service Providers -- Chapter2. Settlement Policies for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan: An Analysis of the Benefits and Drawbacks of Organized Camps -- Chapter3. A Landscape Perspective on the Impact of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon -- Chapter4. From emergency to…
1. Introduction -- 2. Starting points for creating ecological networks -- 3. Methodological base for development of the territorial system of ecological stability -- 4. Method and procedures of designing the territorial system of ecological stability -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Summary -- 7. References -- 8. Case study: Evaluation of linear formations of non-forest woody vegetation (biocorridors) fo…
Introduction -- 1 Material Base of Sustainable Development - Landscape as a Geosystem -- 2 Landscape as a Geosystem -- 3 Construction and Mapping of Geosystems -- 4 Characteristics of Geocomplexes -- 5 Application of the Geosystems in Model Territory - An Example -- Conclusion.The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to soc…
Concepts and definitions of risk and adaptation -- Disaster risk prevention and reduction -- Disaster recovery strategies and solutions -- Community based initiatives for urban risk management and adaptation -- Innovative methodological and technical solutions for risk management and adaptation -- Institutional frameworks and multi-level governance -- The integration of risk management in spati…
Introduction -- Spatial Planning and Governance: Literature Review -- Conceptual Framework and Methodology -- Changing Spatial Planning in the Chinese FYP System -- JSYR Plan Articulated in Jiangsu 11th FYP System: The Process, Rhetoric and Realities -- Spatial Planning Articulated in Suzhou Municipal 11th FYP: Plan Coordination and Development Control -- Conclusion and Discussion.As a legacy o…
Living in a fearscape? -- Western paradoxes of security and fear -- Us and Them: otherness and exclusion -- Fear and space -- Planning, fear and power -- Thinking future.This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear,…
Introduction -- The Mediterranean Idea: From the Roman Mare Nostrum to the Book of the Sea by Naḥum Slouschz (1948) -- Mediterranean as a Supra-Regional Interaction Sphere during Late Prehistory An Overview on Problems and Prospects -- Settlements in the Hellenistic Period in Cilicia -- Anthroscapes: A Robust Basis for Mapping Land Quality and Sustainable Land Use Patterns -- Visible / Invisi…