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This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s.

This book describes This book entails the developments in the field of e-waste management with particular focus on urban mining, sustainability, and circular economy aspects. It further explains health and environmental effects of recycling processes and associated issues, challenges, and solutions, and economic potential of resource recovery.

The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain of place and space in cinema and the film industry's role in establishing cultural connections and economic cooperation between India and Europe.

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect what impact Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals has made, or may yet make, towards reducing violence in 'all its forms'.

The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe.

Gen Z, Tourism and Sustainable Consumption is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Generation Z in relation to sustainable consumption practices and travel cultures.

This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal actions and external relations and highlighting the EU's diverging powers and capabilities in achieving the core objectives.

This book presents an in-depth understanding of the progress of the need for new innovative and next-generation materials. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of manufacturing engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, and environmental engineering.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis, along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and international media and literature.

This book explores the potential of 5G and beyond technologies in smart city setup, including introduction to 5G along with challenges, limitations, and research areas. Applications related to Visible Light Communication, network management in smart cities, role of 5G in various areas, and 6G research framework are included.

This book is a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. It fills a gap in current research, adding empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.

This book provides a resource for understanding the effluent discharge mechanisms and the approaches for modeling them. It bridges the gap between the fundamentals of jets and numerical techniques in hydraulic engineering by integrating the numerical modeling techniques in effluent discharge modeling.

Living in a Man-Made World (originally published in 1991) is the first to make a complete examination of the relationship of gender housing design. Design is seen in broad terms and revealed as part of the social process of society, rather than a separate sphere in which the architect has sole responsibility for decision making.

Virunga National Park, the green lung in the eastern DR Congo, is Africa's oldest nature reserve. This publication, written by around forty experts, explores the complex history of this UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology provides an engaging way to learn geology, focusing on active exploration and real-life applications. Allan Ludman and Stephen Marshak are influential researchers and expert teachers who know how to make geoscience exciting for students. They introduce and reinforce key concepts and skills through rich illustrations, accessible explanations, intuitive labs with easy-to-follow instructions, and pedagogical tools that help students think like geologists.?The manual's modular chapters make it flexible and easy to assign with any introductory geology textbook, especially Marshak's Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology. To make the lab experience more dynamic, the manual is supported by interactive resources, including 3D models of geologic specimens, videos, animations, interactive simulations, and Google Earth activities.?New to this edition:A reorganized Table of Contents designed to follow the typical sequence of the geology lab course.Revised and expanded discussion of plate tectonics, which is introduced in Ch. 2: The Way the Earth Works: Examining Plate Tectonics and further explored in a brand-new Ch. 10: Plate Tectonics II: A Deeper Understanding, which builds on the coverage of minerals, rocks, rock deformation, and earthquakes presented in the preceding chapters.New and revised exercises and activities based on reviewer feedback, including the earthquake epicenter exercise central to Ch. 9 and two groundwater pollution exercises in Ch. 14.?Coverage of recent geological events, including earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, accelerating climate change, and glacial retreat.