Preface -- Ch.1. Introduction (Looking for the origins of regional spatial planning – Short presentation of chapters – Appendix on regional planning in the interwar period) -- PART I (Chapters 2-11) -- Ch.2. Historical periods, regions and examples -- Ch. 3. Greek colonization -- Ch. 4. Colonies and towns in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires -- Ch. 5. New capitals -- Ch. 6. M…
Introduction: The Evolving Data–Driven Smart Sustainable Approach to Urbanism for Tackling the Challenges of Sustainability and Urbanization -- Smart Sustainable Urbanism and Big Data Computing: A Topical Literature Review -- Conceptual, Theoretical, and Disciplinary Foundations: An Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Perspective -- The Data-Driven Smart Sustainable Paradigm of Urbanism: …
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…
Scholar-Participated Governance as an Alternative Solution to the Collective Action Dilemma -- Four Major Roles of Scholars Participation: A Game Theoretical Analysis -- A Product-Institutional Analysis (PIA) Framework -- Significance and Mechanisms of Scholars’ Participation -- Seven Design Principles of Successful Scholar-Participated Governance -- Institutional Performance, Institutional C…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Geographies of Latin American Corruption -- Chapter 3. European Corruption in Geographic Perspective -- Chapter 4. Spatiality of Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa -- Chapter 5. Geographies of Sub-Saharan African Corruption -- Chapter 6. Geographically Uneven Landscapes of Asian Corruption -- Chapter 7. Corruption in Oceania -- Chapter 8. Corrup…
Chapter1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World -- Chapter2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change -- Chapter3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge -- Chapter4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations -- Chapter5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory -- Chapter6: Stewarding Sustainabilit…
Energy Footprints of Food Products -- Energy and Carbon Footprint of Food Industry -- Energy Footprints of Textile Products.This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors. Each footprint case study presents essential background information and discusses the scientific consensus, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tools and techniques, applications…
Introduction -- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices -- 2. The City as an Economic Driver -- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney -- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces -- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism -- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City -- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid -- 8. Landscapes and…
Introduction -- Part 1: Territorial Cohesion and the Urban Dimension -- Debating the Urban Dimension of Territorial Cohesion -- Territorial Cohesion and Spatial Inequalities: A New Approach on Spatial Injustice -- Territorial Cohesion: the Economy and Welfare of Cities -- Part 2: Territorial Cohesion and Urban Balanced Systems -- Polycentric Urban Systems and Territorial Cohesion -- Cross-borde…
Social Life Cycle Assessment of Agricultural Products: Experiences on rice, sugarcane and cassava in Thailand -- A LCA Technique to Measure the Socially Business Responsible Profile: the case of Food Industry -- Case Study on Social Life Cycle Assessment of the Dairy Industry.This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the agri-sector for rice, sugarcane, and cassava in Thai…