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Since the last century of ecological history, landscape ecologists have played a role in solving many hot issues linking development and conservation of landscape. Recently, cause and consequences of landscape change are significantly related to rapid urbanization and land transformation in populated area. Therefore, ecological applications on the man-influenced area are a worldwide issue and challenge in landscape ecology.

The aim of Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas is not only to expand concept of landscape ecology, but also to apply its principle to...

Providing an East-West flow of language teaching knowledge and know-how to balance prevailing Western-centric perspectives, this book is an in-depth investigation of the impact of Western-based language teacher education on the pedagogy and practice of Chinese English language teachers who received their training in Western institutions or those that emphasize Western-based teaching approaches. A significant and growing number of these teachers will influence millions of language learners in China over the next decades.

The Pedagogy and Practice of Western-trained Chinese English...

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2016, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in April 2016.

The volume contains 32 full papers (selected from 43 submissions) from 4 workshops, each focusing on a specific area that contributes to the main themes of DASFAA 2016: The Third International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Personalization, SeCoP 2016; the Third International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service, BDMS 2016; the First International Workshop on Big Data Quality Management, BDQM...

The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China's remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong is one of the key industrial centres and economic powerhouses in China and as a pioneer province, instigating economic reform as China opened up to the world, it offers an ideal focus upon which to question and enrich the Western theories of economic geography and regional disparity. Based on...