1 Investigates the interdisciplinary approach in urbanism including urban ecology, ecosystem services, sustainable landscapes, and advanced geographical systems. 2 Analyses unique case studies of rapid urbanization, from local to national scale, in countries like India, Sri Lanka, China, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and their global impact. 3 Examine the use of GIS and spatial statistics in analyzing urban sprawl and the massive amount of data gathered by every operational activity of municipalities. 4 Focuses on the holistic perspective of sustainable urbanism and the harmony in man - nature relationship the achieve sustainable development 5 Covers a wide range of issues manifested in urban areas with economic, societal, and environmental implications contributed by leading scholars in Global South

Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today's environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges, the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology and environment management. Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, this book helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today's environmental problems from new perspectives.