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Niche Construction and Long-Term Trajectories of Food Production
Niche construction theory has played a prominent role in archaeology during the last decade. However, the potential of niche construction in relation...
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Industry: Global Trends, Players, and Networks in the Theme Park Industry
The theme park industry is expanding worldwide, merging with other entertainment and attractions firms, and diversifying toward other areas of...
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Pandemic Recovery
Capacity building for a neo-industrial pathway to digital development, during or post pandemic times, is an innovative process by which new...
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Putting Things Together to Have a Better Understanding of the Big Picture
This chapter constitutes the epilogue of the handbook. The chapter is designed to place much of the content of the handbook into four categories,...
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Assessment of Development Plans for Small Urban Areas of Bangladesh: Remote Sensing and GIS-based Approach
Assessment of development plans particularly in terms of land use and land cover can strategically support conventional land use planning practices....
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Freeway Removal: From Cheonggyecheon to Seoullo 7017
Between 2003 and 2005, Seoul planners ripped up downtown’s largest expressway and turned it into a clean stream, running through the middle of the...
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A Case Study in Maritime Heritage Ecology: Understanding How Structural Changes to the 1898 Shipwreck Portland Affect Biological Diversity and Colonization
Shipwrecks are irreplaceable cultural and historical resources, and they also serve as biological habitats. The physical structure of a shipwreck...
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Environmental Learning and Communication
Environmental learningEnvironmental learning is an act of communicationCommunication. Whether it is self-directed learningSelf-directed learning,...
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Contingent Urban Nature and Interactional Justice: The Evolving Coastal Spaces of the City of Tallinn
Waterfronts in cities have become contested spaces often involving negotiated dimensions of environmental justice. On one hand, urbanisation expands...
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Water Resources Governance in Indonesia Towards Environmental Sustainability Along with Social and Economic Development
Indonesia’s water resources governance aims at delivering the basic needs of a growing population whilst being constrained by ecosystems’ carrying...
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Geographical Names in Argentina: Present and Challenges
Spaces to discuss toponymy both as geospatial data and for its value as intangible cultural heritage, are expanding. Its vitality grows, not only in...
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Game board rock carvings in Hong Kong and Macao: reexamining their significance and dating
The present study is divided in two parts: first, it offers a description of the game boards unearthed in Hong Kong and Macao, outlining the...
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Archaeological Evidence of the Development of a Regional Society in Santarém (AD 1000–1600), Lower Amazon: A Path to Understanding Social Complexity
This article sets out to broaden our knowledge of the sociopolitical dynamics of Santarém (AD 1000–1600), a regional society in the Lower Amazon, by...
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Economics and Zero-Carbon
Several agreements in the last decade have established the urgent need to intensify the efforts toward “net zero” carbon emissions. Globally, more...
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Human Settlement, Inhabitation, and Travel Environment Construction Theory and Technology
Human settlement, inhabitation, and travel environment construction theory and technology include (1) resources protection and development: from 3 to...
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Dried, Tanned, Frozen, Embalmed, Smoked: A Glimpse into Mummification Mechanisms
Mummification as a cultural practice appears in many forms around the world with varying degrees of complexity and ultimately generates different...
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Dried, Tanned, Frozen, Embalmed, Smoked: A Glimpse into Mummification Mechanisms
Mummification as a cultural practice appears in many forms around the world with varying degrees of complexity and ultimately generates different...
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Cloud, Edge, and Mobile Computing for Smart Cities
Smart cities evolve rapidly along with the technical advances in wireless and sensor networks, information science, and human–computer interactions....
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A View from a Jamaican Foreign Service Officer During and Post-COVID-19
This chapter describes the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica during COVID-19. Jamaica is predominantly an...
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Senescence in Plants
The plants, be they herbs, shrubs, or trees, growing old or leaving their century-old traces, serve as models for the senescence of higher-ordered...