Managing Geo-Based Challenges - World-wide Case Studies and Sustainable Local Solutions

This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to energize research thinking and develop locally driven practical and sustainable solutions, ultimately moving management and decision making from being reactive to being proactive. This book fills a void as there are no published books to show the way forward or to present real case studies for this purpose.
Case studies that utilize new technologies and scientific thinking are presented for developing sustainable management options based either on producing local applied research or on utilising relevant international research. These case studies are based on the author's first-hand experiences in arid/semi-arid (Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan), temperate (UK) and tropical environments (Malaysia, the Caribbean region, Indonesia and Australia).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An academic exploration of geo-based environmental issues.- Geo-science studies.- Water resource studies.- Land use/cover and biodiversity studies.- GIS-based suitability studies.- Sustainable development studies.- Education-related studies.

Zusammenfassung

This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to energize research thinking and develop locally driven practical and sustainable solutions, ultimately moving management and decision making from being reactive to being proactive. This book fills a void as there are no published books to show the way forward or to present real case studies for this purpose.
Case studies that utilize new technologies and scientific thinking are presented for developing sustainable management options based either on producing local applied research or on utilising relevant international research. These case studies are based on the author's first-hand experiences in arid/semi-arid (Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan), temperate (UK) and tropical environments (Malaysia, the Caribbean region, Indonesia and Australia).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Serwan M J Baban, Serwan M. J. Baban
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.05.2014
• EAN: 9783319073798
• ISBN: 978-3-31-907379-8
• Seiten: 228
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 243 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 473 g
• Illustration: IX, 228 p. 126 illus., 95 illus. in color.
• Serien: Environmental Science; Environmental Science and Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Environmental Science
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik; B, Sustainability, Urban Planning, Water, Sustainable Development, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Regional & area planning, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental management,, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Human Geography, Environmental Monitoring, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis