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The investigation of the interactions between human and physical
systems poses unique conceptual, methodological, and practical
challenges. This book establishes a spatial science framework for
policymakers, social scientists, and environmental researchers as
they explore and analyze complex problems. The authors provide
guidance for scientists, writers, and students across a broad range
of fields on how to tackle discipline-specific issues of space,
place, and scale as they propose and conduct research in the
spatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends
plenty of concrete examples of spatial research and case studies to
familiarize readers with the research process, demystifying and
illustrating how it is actually done. The appendix contains both
completed and in-progress proposals for MA and PhD theses and
dissertations, as well as successful research grants. By
emphasizing research as a learning and experiential process, while
providing students with the encouragement and skills needed for
success in proposal writing, "Research Design and Proposal Writing
in Spatial Science" can serve as a textbook for research-design or
project-based courses at the upper-division undergraduate and
graduate level.
This book discusses urban planning and regional development
practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are
currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What
are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional,
national and global scales? With the push to adopt a market
paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship
between resource management, sustainable development and the role
of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving
way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also
in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related
decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it.
Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world
and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a
valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban
transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers,
practitioners or policymakers.
This book discusses urban planning and regional development
practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are
currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What
are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional,
national and global scales? With the push to adopt a market
paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship
between resource management, sustainable development and the role
of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving
way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also
in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related
decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it.
Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world
and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a
valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban
transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers,
practitioners or policymakers.
This book examines the relationship between natural resource
management, sustainable development, and governance with case
studies from India and other places covering disaster risk
reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change
adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological
conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India,
the volume discusses how governance can be employed to help develop
and implement sustainable practices globally through the lens of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.
Readers will learn how to integrate concepts of resource
management, sustainable development, and governance to improve
human resilience to global environmental change, and to assess the
proper development approaches to assist economically stressed and
resource-deprived individuals. The book will be of use to graduate
students and academics, policy makers, planners, and nonprofits.
This book examines the relationship between natural resource
management, sustainable development, and governance with case
studies from India and other places covering disaster risk
reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change
adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological
conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India,
the volume discusses how governance can be employed to help develop
and implement sustainable practices globally through the lens of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.
Readers will learn how to integrate concepts of resource
management, sustainable development, and governance to improve
human resilience to global environmental change, and to assess the
proper development approaches to assist economically stressed and
resource-deprived individuals. The book will be of use to graduate
students and academics, policy makers, planners, and nonprofits.
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