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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kohei okamoto”
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  • Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos

    Edited by Satoshi Yokoyama, Kohei Okamoto, Isao Hirota, Chisato Takenaka ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development and urbanization have progressed, and people’s livelihoods are about to change significantly. Compared ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future

    Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013

    Edited by Kohei Okamoto, Yoshitaka Ishikawa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

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  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

    Edited by Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Field Informatics

    Kyoto University Field Informatics Research Group

    Edited by Toru Ishida ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Here we use the term "field" to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "field informatics" describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field. The components of field informatics are description, prediction, design and transfer, and the methods for those components vary widely. For example, we consider the social goal of revitalizing a mountainous ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

    Pattern and Process

    by Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field ... Read more

    $109.29 CAD

  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    by Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

  • Satoyama

    The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan

    Edited by K. Takeuchi, R.D. Brown, I. Washitani, A. Tsunekawa, M. Yokohari ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields of rural Japan made possible the sustainable interaction of nature and humans. Radical changes in the ... Read more

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  • Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

    Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Qisheng Pan, JiYoung Park, James E. Moore II ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice

    Edited by Eric Koomen, Judith Borsboom-van Beurden ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model, which has been used in spatial planning for well over a decade. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for trend extrapolation, scenario studies and optimization, yet can also be employed in a smaller-scale regional context ... Read more

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  • Post-Tsunami Hazard

    Reconstruction and Restoration

    Edited by V. Santiago-Fandiño, Y.A. Kontar, Y. Kaneda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems and agricultural redevelopment as well as pollution assessment are included. The reader will ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD