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This handbook presents an authoritative overview of South Asia through the lens of geopolitics, political dynamics, economics, human security, and sustainable development.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's Constitution, this book gauges its development from 1972 to 2022, focusing on its foundational goals, performances, and current challenges. The work brings together legal professionals and constitutional law scholars to encapsulate the panorama of the country's constitutional evolution.

The first volume of this comprehensive global prospective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts. It explains different types of drought: agricultural, meteorological, hydrological, and socio-economic droughts, their indices and the impact of climate change on drought.

The second volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on drought modeling, meteorological prediction, and the use of remote sensing in assessing, analyzing, and monitoring drought. It discusses risk management, planning, policy, and societal impacts of drought.

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows that risk and responsibility combine in ways that give rise to new philosophical questions and problems.

Global climate change has generated new rainfall extremes, with unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows. This text presents recent conceptual developments in disasters, risk, and resilience; surveys UN policies; and gives an integrated approach; with the Japanese experience of effective flood management and disaster recovery.

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of 'prison ecologies' - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a 'product' of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts.

Written by experts in academia and industry Artificial Intelligence and Modeling for Water Sustainability: Global Challenges helps governments, industries, and homeowners address water pollution problems more quickly and efficiently, and gain better insight into the implementation of more effective remedial measures.

This book explores the future of liberalism in India. The volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of political science, especially political theory, and South Asian studies.

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorizes artists' responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centers.

This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field.

Edited by medical geographer and GIS Professor Dr. Esra Ozdenerol, this book highlights key GIS capabilities and lessons learned during the COVID-19 response and can help communities prepare for the next crisis. 12 global projects are discussed with a multidisciplinary approach, illustrating the role of GIS in crisis management.

This book gives readers a practical introduction to machine learning and sensing techniques, their design and ultimately specific applications that could improve food production. It shows how these sensing and computing systems are suitable for process implementation in food factories.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment. The mitigation and adaptation strategies involving sustainable development are also explained.

This book presents a detailed know-how regarding sustainable management of wastes produced in municipal and industrial activities through novel state-of-the-art techniques used for the treatment of toxic industrial wastes and municipal wastewater. It deals with the management of municipal sludges and solid wastes produced from landfill sites.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field.

Volume III discusses water and watershed issues such as water quality, evapotranspiration, water resource management, and ecological services. It reviews the existing knowledge and highlights the advances made in different areas. This is the most comprehensive reference for the water research community worldwide.

Volume II discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using integrated modeling as applied to advanced water resource assessments. Written by leading global experts and through numerous applications at local and global scale, this is the most comprehensive reference for the water research community worldwide.

Volume I discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements and analyses of water features and watersheds including lakes and reservoirs, rivers and streams, and coasts and estuaries. This is the most comprehensive reference for the water research community worldwide.

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.

This handbook presents evidence that there has not been an end of public space and its varied use. In cities in different parts of the world people still use public space to pursue activities of their choice, including for recreation, commerce, protest, living and celebration.