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Societal Change
A major task of comparative/historical sociology is to examine the array of different economic and sociopolitical characteristics of a range of...
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Managing National and Game Parks in Africa
National and game parks have been strategies used to control natural ecosystems for centuries. However, their relevance has been made more acute...
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Biophilic Vision, Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism and Circular Economy
The Paris Agreement (COP21) emerged as a significant global response to address the risks associated with climate change by emphasising the urgent...
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Natural Heritage
Singapore's remarkable evolution into a garden city can be attributed to years of unwavering commitment and continuous efforts to embrace greenery....
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Ocean Ecosystem and Its Multidimensional Eco-functionality and Significance
The earth is being considered as blue planet because such of its unique appearance from space and the blue color obviously is being imparted by the...
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Reinventing Destination Management and Planning: Taking Stock of a Decade of Smart Destinations Development in Spain
This chapter analyses the development of smart destinations (SDs) as a new approach to destination planning and management in Spain 10 years after...
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Classification and Characteristics of Human Settlement, Inhabitation, and Travel Environment Background
The total area of land and ocean on the Earth is around 510 million km2, 71% of which is ocean, and 29% percent of which is land with the area of 149...
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From Traditional Grey Infrastructure to Blue-Green Infrastructure
Despite traditional grey infrastructure systems quickly collecting stormwater runoff and draining it from the city, reliance on it has led to...
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Estuarine territorialization and the port of Hamburg
The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe and located approximately 120 km from the North Sea in the inner delta of the vast Elbe...
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Exploring Human Behavior Through Isotopic Analyses: Tools, Scales, and Questions
Isotopic analyses have become an important tool in archaeological and bioarchaeological research. This chapter provides an overview of the...
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Guanche Mummies
Guanche mummies from Tenerife have been a permanent focus of attraction for scholars from many countries, especially Europeans, and for the...
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Guanche Mummies
Guanche mummies from Tenerife have been a permanent focus of attraction for scholars from many countries, especially Europeans, and for the...
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Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism and Planning
In a period of climatic breakdown, the instruments of sensing environmental change are critical. Aerial photography was the first tool in the...
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Water Heritage and the Importance of Local Knowledge in Climate Action
Thousands of significant archaeological and heritage sites line the coasts of every continent, threatened by loss and damage from rising sea levels...
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Urban Metabolism—An Approach for Enhancing Resilience
Along with the increase in the size of the city and the high rate of urbanization, unsustainable urban development can cause severe ecological and...
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The Gathering: Collectivity and the Development of Bronze Age Cretan Society
In this paper, we argue that the sociopolitical trajectory of Bronze Age of Crete was characterized by the progressive but intentional manipulation...
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Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
This chapter introduces the book Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. We reflect on the terms ‘difficult death’, ‘dying’ and the...
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Electrifying Development: Consumption Booms and Household Energy Demand
Energy is at the core of development and everyday life, and household energy consumption has well deservingly become a core topic of consumption...
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Additional Solutions
Alongside the financing and implementation activities aimed at conserving tropical coral reefs, there are a variety of additional solutions. Such...
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Art and the City: An Exploration of Creatives’ Lived Realities in the Context of Cebu’s Place Branding Initiative
Following more developed countries in sha** and reinventing cities to be recognized in the creative and cultural economy, the Philippines meets the...