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Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of eighteen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.

This book provides a systematic and multifaceted overview of urban wellbeing. It explores the characteristics and complexities of urban wellbeing of lower and middle classes in Asian megacities.

ASEAN's real gross domestic product (GDP) had declined sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers insights into regional and country-level perspectives and ways to keep the greenness of the economic recovery plans.

This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management approach. It includes examples of SWM systems in practice in diverse locations from Korea, Mexico, Paris, the Canary Islands and southern Africa, aimed at addressing a diverse set of problems, including monitoring water supply to refugees.

The ageing population is a global societal issue. Policymakers, planners, and the public, third and private sectors must rethink the delivery of built environment and services to meet the needs of a changing demographic. This is the first book to systematically review the evolution, development and progress of age-friendly thinking in the UK.

This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavi¿. Bringing a flaneur's sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavi¿ developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when 'New Nepal' was rising on the horizon.

This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It describes, discusses and analyzes the period from China's opening up to foreign investment in the 1980s until the New Silk Road project, from 2013 onwards.

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. It will be of interest to anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, and cultural and social theory.

This book presents an overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores the upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime presiding over worsening economic conditions has been confronted by increasing social mobilisation which demands a transformation of state-society relations.

This book explores power in international relations, in a world of growing competition of major powers for smaller nations. Focusing on the major powers and smaller countries of Eurasia, it argues that power in international relations is different from coercion and is rather a social contract between a leader state and follower states.

This book will be an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provide Lean tools for the implementation.

This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization mean and imply in the Nordic region.

This book examines conservation agriculture in India, discussing the current situation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation agriculture, sustainable agriculture, crop and soil management, and environmental and natural resource management more broadly.

Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

Open Access at www.routledge.com from SmartCast ERC Advanced Grant Project, this outlines rheology & stiffening control methods for controlling the rheological &stiffening behaviour of fresh self-compacting concrete during casting, by modifying the concrete with responsive superplasticizer or magneto-responsive mineral additions.

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city and outlines approaches for services such as such as health, transport, energy, and others. It is a practical and detailed demonstration for professionals using blockchain technology for effective city management.

This book focuses on feature extraction methods for optical geospatial data using Machine Learning (ML). It is a practical guide for professionals and graduate students starting a career in information extraction. It explains spatial feature extraction in an easy-to-understand way and includes real case studies.

Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the relationship between religions and ecology, presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. It examines how faith traditions of the world see and respond to our current unprecedented climate change issues.

This reference text discusses the various aspects of smart cities and their architecture along with the application of the latest technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence. The concept of smart cities, their development, technological advancements, and issue related to them will be discussed in detail.

Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and tenacious world-making they are engaged in.

The text comprehensively discusses basis of mathematical modelling of the heat transfer process in a fast reactor cooled by sodium in a single volume. The text will be helpful for senior undergraduate, graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, and power cycle engineering.

Chambers, Nuangjamnong and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for understanding the region's political economy.