For students and graduates, this textbook details the history of microfossil biostratigraphy and its core scientific concepts. It presents the practical uses of 25 microfossil groups and provides a numerical method to calculate their biostratigraphical resolution.
Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
Bridging diverse disciplines from the genesis of the Maldives to robotic agriculture, this book presents cutting-edge research from leading experts. It offers vital recommendations for future work, making it essential for academics, students, and practitioners.
This book refutes the Malthusian paradigm—which forecasts conflicts due to water scarcity—by showing that this perspective has no empirical or conceptual basis. It argues that sharing water politics and the use of technology can annul the scarcity-conflict paradigm worldwide.
The essays here investigate the reasons why India has fared better than other emerging market economies, and discuss whether other countries can take inspiration from this model and rebuild their own countries based on their national resources and cultural heritage.
Urban life and mobility have been greatly affected by globalization and postmodernization. The essays here delve into a number of significant issues in urban research, including urban governance, city branding and commodification, and the conservation of the urban ecosystem.
Fragile and Resilient Cities on Water
Venice and Tokyo exemplify the challenges confronting cities on water. This volume explores the “rediscovery of water,” highlighting the socio-economic, environmental, and cultural process of re-evaluating heritage in these fragile, liminal spaces.
As a result of the recent serious academic interest in tourism as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment, this volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment.
The Outback Within
Byrne explores the evolving national mythology of the Australian outback, discussing why narratives of outback journeys are so often suffused with the aura of death. He argues for a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth in this environment.
This title tackles the need for a deeper understanding of rural tourism, focusing on the tourist experience. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.
This collection raises awareness of ways of healthy ageing that are facilitated by different forms of physical activity and exercise, and imparts knowledge about recent advances in recreation and wellbeing initiatives that will benefit the academic community and the wider public.
Surrounded by Water
This work investigates the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex and varied features. Each chapter offers an analysis of a specific facet of the island, complemented with insights gained from in-depth research.
This collection of research charts 40 years of applied climatology, representing the evolution of the subfield. It provides a framework for appreciating the impacts of climate on society, covering topics from water and energy to agriculture and human health.
Connections, Mobilities, Urban Prospects and Environmental Threats
This volume provides specialized insights into pressing Mediterranean issues, from climate change and urbanization to tourism and info-communication technologies, offering new perspectives on emerging threats in a region at the interface of many worlds.
A World of Innovation
Gerhard Mercator was the 16th century’s most important cartographer, famed for his Atlas and the map projection still used today. This book presents the latest research on his sources, his relationships, and his role in Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
Rural Tourism
Rural tourism is seen as a solution to rural decline, but its benefits are often overstated and unrealistic. This collection questions the contribution tourism makes to rural regions through diverse, research-driven case studies.
How do we balance economy, ecology, and social justice for a sustainable future? Experts show the way forward in this essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals in environmental sciences, forestry, and geography.
As ecosystems are destroyed, commercial seed mixes harm biodiversity. This book shows why native species are vital for ecological restoration, compiling best practices from Europe and the US and providing guidelines for successful implementation.
Cartographies of Nature
This volume expands the links between nature conservation and border studies, showing how nature conservation produces borders. By exploring species’ borders and those created by conservation areas, it enriches our conceptualisation of borders.
Human-Environmental Interactions in Cities
This book examines human-environment interactions to foster biodiversity under the pressure of urbanisation. Using international case studies, it introduces concepts like biophilic urbanism and offers planning recommendations for sustainable green infrastructure.