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  1. Northern Sea Route and Its Geoeconomic Importance

    With the melting of the Arctic ice in recent decades, new opportunities arose for Asian countries to ship manufactured goods. Instead of using the...
    Martin Grešš, Mariia I. Ermilova in The Handbook of the Arctic
    Reference work entry 2022
  2. Do We Need to Topple Watson?

    A very public debate in St Catharines, Ontario, provides a valuable case study of one community’s decision to remove a contentious monument. St....
    Chapter 2024
  3. Traveling the Country: Transportation Challenges and Mobility Management

    Territorial fragmentation, abrupt mountain reliefs, insular nature, outermost regions, limited land management capacity, and major shortages in...
    Régis Darques in The Geography of Greece
    Chapter 2024
  4. Greece Beyond the Crises, an Enhanced Resilience

    Although Greece has been brought to the forefront of international attention over the last 10 years, much is still to be learned from this badly...
    Régis Darques, George Sidiropoulos, Kostas D. Kalabokidis in The Geography of Greece
    Chapter 2024
  5. The Quaternary Climate of Israel

    Israel is located in the southern sector of the LevantLevant, spanning the climatic transition between the hyperarid Sahara Desert in the south and...
    Chapter 2024
  6. Polygenetic Lowland Relief Around the City of Łódź—Glacial Inheritance and Periglacial Transformation

    The Łódź region in central Poland straddles the Middle Polish Lowlands in the north and the Upland belt in the south. The most elevated area, above...
    Jan Goździk, Jacek Forysiak in Landscapes and Landforms of Poland
    Chapter 2024
  7. Historical-architectural analysis of Cartagena de Indias heritage

    In the last four decades, the historical heritage of Cartagena de Indias has been at the center of national and international attention due to its...

    Manuel Saba, Jorge Luis Álvarez Carrascal, Alfonso Rafael Cabrera Cruz in City, Territory and Architecture
    Article Open access 16 January 2023
  8. Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater—A Review

    Fluoride contamination in groundwater is a major environmental issue, mostly in the develo** world, due to the extensive negative impact that it...
    Riddha Chaudhuri, Satiprasad Sahoo, ... Sugata Hazra in Geospatial Practices in Natural Resources Management
    Chapter 2024
  9. The Wonderful Weather of Greece

    The Greek area can be characterized by a large spectrum of atmospheric phenomena and climatic conditions, some of which have a high impact on many...
    Haralambos Feidas, Theodore Karacostas, Prodromos Zanis in The Geography of Greece
    Chapter 2024
  10. The Black Sea Basin, Physical–Geographical Conditions

    The Black Sea is a natural inland water basin situated between Europe and Asia and has the aspect of a deep basin, oriented from west to east,...
    Chapter 2022
  11. Geoecology I: Retreating Glaciers, Plant Succession on Mount Kenya Due to Climate Change

    Tyndall Glacier on Mount Kenya has retreated notably in recent years due to warming atmosphere, i.e., climate change. It was evinced that the fronts...
    Chapter 2022
  12. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Coastal Wetlands and Reclamation in the Yangtze Estuary During Past 50 Years (1960s–2015)

    Reclamation is one of the fastest-growing land use type developed in coastal areas and has caused degradation and loss of coastal wetlands as well as...

    Lin Chen, Chunying Ren, ... Kaishan Song in Chinese Geographical Science
    Article 02 May 2018
  13. The Periglaciation of Europe

    Europe includes a vast surface extent from subtropical to polar latitudes. The rough relief of the continent with several peninsulas, islands, capes,...
    Marc Oliva, José M. Fernández-Fernández, Daniel Nývlt in Periglacial Landscapes of Europe
    Chapter 2022
  14. Respecting Country and People: Pathways Forward

    Key ethos of contemporary Aboriginal culture in Australia includes a desire for sovereignty recognition, a request for equality of voice in...
    David S. Jones, Kate Alder, ... Oshadi L. Yapa Appuhamillage in Learning Country in Landscape Architecture
    Chapter 2021
  15. Has Drought Intensified During 1981–2021 Global Warming?

    Since the mid-eighteenth century, the Earth climate has been warming up. In the past 60 years, Earth warmed up intensively, leading to never before...
    Chapter 2022
  16. Reassessing the Karakoram Through Historical Archives

    The Karakoram region is an integral part of the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya (HKH) mountain system and forms the great divide between the drainage...
    Rakesh Bhambri, Pritam Chand, ... Sameer K. Tiwari in Environmental Change in South Asia
    Chapter 2022
  17. Ground Temperature and Active Layer Regimes and Changes

    Permafrost is degrading worldwide due to climate, leading to serious consequences for regional hydrology, climate, and ecosystems. Over the past...
    Lin Zhao, Cangwei **e, ... Tingjun Zhang in Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems
    Chapter 2021
  18. Spatiotemporal evolution of surface urban heat islands: Concerns regarding summer heat wave periods

    Many cities face heat wave (HW) events, combined with the existent surface urban heat island (SUHI) effects. This places pressure on human...

    Jiayi Ren, Jun Yang, ... Xueming Li in Journal of Geographical Sciences
    Article 08 June 2024
  19. Geomorphology of the Continental Shelf

    The continental shelfContinental shelf around Scotland covers an area of ~286,500 km2, around 3.5 times the size of the Scottish landmass. This...
    Heather A. Stewart, Tom Bradwell, ... Joana Gafeira in Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland
    Chapter 2021
  20. The Greenlandian

    The first of the Holocene’s three ages. The concept of the “ح” (“haa”) curve. The 3500 years spanning the transition from the LGM to the 8.2 k Event....
    Chapter 2023
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