This SpringerBrief provides a brief review on cartographic practices and their changes. This brief also presents example case studies using historical maps in scientific studies and their real-world applications. The authors describe the challenges and best practices in extracting and modeling map Contents in this brief. This state-of-the-art introduction manual will help researchers, professionals and students interested in using the embedded human knowledge in historical maps to better understand the possibilities of current tools and to employ an efficient workflow for generating...
This SpringerBrief provides a brief review on cartographic practices and their changes. This brief also presents example case studies using histori...
This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis.
This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban cris...
This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan. A new methodology for child centered vulnerability assessments both on school and community levels has been developed.
This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in sc...
This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried archaeological landscapes.
This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried ...
This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "healthy cities" and "urban planning", examining various best practices in Europe. It uses the above as a starting point and investigates different aspects of healthy cities, examining various best practices in Europe.
This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "healthy cities" and "urban planning", examining various best practices in Europe...
While the need to integrate financial markets into coastal (and environmental) management is increasingly recognized, the difficulty of this task is made greater by the speed of financial innovation and the obscurity and complexity of its practices.
While the need to integrate financial markets into coastal (and environmental) management is increasingly recognized, the difficulty of this task is m...
This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia's 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century.
This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such...
This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them.
This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities ...
