Geography: Geographic Information Systems

Edited by Sisi Zlatanova, Jonathan Li

Disaster management is generally understood to consist of four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. While these phases are all important and interrelated, response and recovery are often considered to be the most critical in terms of saving lives. Response is the acute phase…

Paperback – 2019-10-18
CRC Press

Edited by Ian Masser

This book draws on author’s wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries. It provides a clear overview of the development of the SDI concept and SDI worldwide implementation and brings a logical chronological approach to the linkage of GIS technology with SDI enabling data…

Hardback – 2019-10-08
CRC Press

By Mike J. Barnsley

Increasingly used to represent climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, computer modeling has become an important tool that should be in every environmental professional’s toolbox. Environmental Modeling: A Practical Introduction is just what it purports to be, a practical introduction to…

Paperback – 2019-09-19
CRC Press

By Peter Fisher, David Unwin

The ideas and techniques of virtual reality are now being made available for the creation of artificial or virtual geographies (a virtual geography refers to the creation of artificial geographies for use in research and teaching, using ideas and techniques from the field of virtual reality (VR)).…

Paperback – 2019-09-16
CRC Press

Edited by Claudia Yamu, Alenka Poplin, Oswald Devisch, Gert De Roo

The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
Routledge
Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Edited by Ciro Gardi

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for other purposes, particularly soil for agriculture and drainage. This book presents a review of current knowledge of the extension and…

Paperback – 2019-01-23
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology

Edited by Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen

This book seeks to bring together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of human mobility within the discipline of geography. With five thematic sections – conceptualizing and analyzing mobility, inequalities of mobility, politics of mobility, decentering…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
Routledge

Edited by Elaine Stratford

Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Edited by Richard Reed, Chris Pettit

Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding property and real estate discipline. Whilst a thorough understanding of location is understood to be fundamental to the property discipline, real estate professionals and…

Paperback – 2018-07-13
Routledge

By Jennifer Whyte, Dragana Nikolić

Like the first edition, the central question this book addresses is how virtual reality can be used in the design, production and management of the built environment. The book aims to consider three key questions. What are the business drivers for the use of virtual reality? What are its…

Paperback – 2018-02-21
Routledge

Edited by Kristene Unsworth, Andrea Forte, Richardson Dilworth

Information shapes urban spaces in ways that most people rarely stop to consider. From data-driven planning to grassroots activism to influencing the routes we walk, bike, and drive, new information technologies are helping city dwellers to leverage information in new ways. These technologies shape…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
Routledge

By Tony H. Grubesic, Elizabeth A. Mack

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context, but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate…

Paperback – 2017-12-18
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy