Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction-. 1. Water -- 2. Natural and Cultural Landscapes -- 3. Natural Resources -- 4. Energy, Environmental Pollution and Policy -- 5. Demography -- 6. The Netherlands, Europe and the World -- 7. Cultural and Electoral Geography -- 8. Governance -- 9. Economic Geography -- 10. Cities, Suburbs, Villages -- 11. Infrastructures -- 12. Social Map -- 13. Prospect…
Introduction -- I. Principles and theoretical and methodological basis of landscape-ecological planning -- 1. Change or preservation of landscape structure? -- 2. Ecologisation of landscape management -- 3. Institutional instruments for integrated landscape management in Slovakia -- 4. Landscape as a geosystem -- II. Landscape-ecological planning LANDEP - a tool for the ecologisation of spatial…
Introduction -- Biosphere as a still unlearned living sphere -- How many of us will be? Population of the Earth -- Technogenesis and Its impact on the biosphere state -- Populaltion load. Adaptation corridor of a man -- What does happen with the climate? -- Living with natural disaster risk -- Market economy and ecology -- Nature conservation and nature use. Ecological safety -- Nature as a liv…
The concept and practice of Smart Metropolitan Regional Development -- Metropolitan Region of Abuja, the New Capital of Nigeria -- Surat Metropolitan Region Gujarat, India -- Kozhikode Metropolitan Region, Kerala, India -- National Capital Metropolitan Region Delhi, India -- Metropolitan Region of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa -- Metropolitan Region Naples, Italy -- Metropolitan Region of Chan…
Chapter 1. Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships -- Part 1: Viewpoints on the Mediterranean and Europe -- Chapter 2. EU Elite Representations of Mediterranean Space: Arab Student Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The EU and the Symbolic, Territorial and Institutional Organisation of the Mediterranean as a Global Mobile Space: Moroccan Student Perspectives -- Part 2: Narratives…
The World Water Issues -- Fifty years of water policies, 1960-2010 -- The National Water Balance -- The holistic water balance: Blue Water, Green Water and Virtual Water -- Managing water demand and unconventional resources -- Water Security in Tunisia: debated issues -- Conclusion -- References.This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new po…
Chapter 1: Methods to study Pedology and Edaphology of Indian Tropical Soils: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Evidence of Clay Illuviation in Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) and Red Ferruginous (RF) Soils -- Chapter 3: Clay Illuviation and Pedoturbation in SAT Vertisols Chapter 4: Cracking Depths in Indian Vertisols: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Unique Depth Dis…
Part I: Introduction to the Geomorphological Landscapes and Landforms of Georgia -- Chapter 1. Long Term Geomorphological History of Georgia -- Chapter 2. Climate, hydrography and soils of Georgia -- Part II: Landscape Types of Georgia -- Chapter 3. Coastal (Abrasive) Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 4. Karst Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 5. Nival-Glacier Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 6. Urb…
Landslides: An Overview -- Geomorphic, Geo-tectonic and Hydrologic Attributes and Landslide Susceptibility -- Slope instability analysis: A Sub-Watershed Scale Study -- Geomorphic Diversity and Landslide Susceptibility: A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Approach -- Landslide Susceptibility Prediction and Assessment using Bivariate Models -- Multivariate Models and Prediction and Assessment of Landsli…
Chapter1. Origins 1828-48 -- Chapter2. America 1849-50 -- Chapter3. The early coast survey 1851-52 -- Chapter4. Stellwagen bank 1853-57 -- Chapter5. Hydrographic draftsman 1857-61 -- Chapter6. Casco bay 1861 -- Chapter7. North carolina 1862 -- Chapter8. Casco bay continued 1862 -- Chapter9. Florida reefs 1863 -- Chapter10. Maine: portland rocks 1853 -- Chapter11. North carolina lighthouses 1861…