Science and Technology

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create...

The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of...

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive re...

Remote sensing is the process of acquiring and interpreting spectral measurement at distant location to collect information about earth’s surface f...

Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, i...

The scope of renewable energy generation technologies has far exceeded that of a laboratory, as they now require large-scale commercial generation....

Rural Development is a textbook that critically examines economic, social and cultural aspects of rural development efforts both in the global nort...

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current i...

Developing countries worldwide have been embarking on ‘smart cities’ programmes using new technology solutions to improve public services. Faced wi...

Soil genesis that studies the evolution of soils and the changes taking place in soil bodies has received increasing interest and attention in the ...

Rocks and other parent materials weather to form soils which inherit their characteristics from their respective parent geological materials. There...

The arbitrary exploitation of natural resources and ignorance of the deleterious effects have resulted in the alarming increase of environmental po...

The book Spatial Concerns in Development: A Sri Lankan Perspective, based on analyses of experiences gained with various aspects of the development...

More than ten thousand ‘surface’ weather observing stations are currently being operated and maintained by countries all over the world. These make...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and bus...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business,...

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Hi...

Every individual, organisation, or society uses energy in some form or the other. Increase in world population, and consequent material consumption...

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 2...

For the past two centuries the basic composition of the Earth’s atmosphere has been materially altered by the fossil fuel effluvia of machine cultu...

Almost every advance in science and technology brings new and unexpected problems in its wake. Thus the motorcar, aeroplane, high-speed machine too...

Remote sensing technology in India started in the 1960s. Space technology was developed during the 1970s and 1980s to use satellites and sensors in...

Earth science forces, including earthquakes, fossils, the Earth's spheres, the Big Bang Theory, El Nino, and the atmosphere, are presented at a lev...