Management & Development of historic Area -- Cultural & Religious Identities & their manifestation of heritage -- Awareness of heritage rehabilitation project -- Legislative tools and policies for cultural heritage protection -- Economics of Conservation and Sustainable environment.History is one of the main aspects that shapes a country’s culture and leaves its traces on the built environmen…
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…
Energy Footprint of Biorefinery Schemes -- A Technical Review on Methods and Tools for Evaluation of Energy Footprints, Impact on Buildings and Environment -- Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emission in Hotel Industry.This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint cas…
Introduction Lanzarote, a Unique Geopark -- Part I: From Earth -- Geological and Geographical Setting of Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands UNESCO Global Geoparks -- Geoheritage Inventory of the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands UNESCO Global Geopark -- Historic Volcanic Landforms Diversity on Lanzarote -- Evaluation of Geoconservation in Geosites of Paleontogical Interest from Lanzarote and Chinijo Isl…
Tourism Issues -- Tourism & Environment -- Culture & Tourism -- Tourism & Development -- Tourism & Health.This book includes research papers submitted to and presented during the first international conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November of 2017. Discussing complex relations between Culture, tourism, and the role of planners and archit…
Introduction -- The Geological Evolution of the Galapagos Islands -- The Origins and Ecology of the Galapagos Islands -- Geoconservation, Geotourism and Sustainable Development in the Galapagos -- The Geodiversity and Geoheritage of the Galapagos Islands: A Geotouristic Guide.This book provides the first-ever overview of and guide to the geological setting and related features of the famous, vo…
1. Introduction -- 2. Can We Evaluate the Scenic Beauty in a Landscape? -- 3. Review of the Existing Landscape Evaluation Techniques -- 4. The Coastal Scenery Evaluation Methodology -- 5. Coastal Scenery Around the World -- 6. Coastal Scenery Management -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. References.This book describes an easy to apply methodology to determine the scenic value of a coast. As one of the mos…
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from on…
Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary -- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys -- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller -- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands -- Botkin: Letters on Spain -- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy -- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian wri…
Introduction to the Handbook; Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe and Spencer Swain -- Part One: Traditional Theories of Leisure -- Section One Introduction; Erin Sharpe -- 1. Islam and Leisure; Kirsten Walseth and Mahfoud Amara -- 2. Centring Leisure: A Hindu View of Leisure; Veena Sharma -- 3. Listening to 19th Century Kanaka ʻŌiwi Voices; Re-Imagining the Possibilities for Leisure; K…