Spatial Planning in Ghana
Spatial Planning in Ghana

Author: Ransford A. Acheampong

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3030020118

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This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana’s spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management. It covers important themes in contemporary spatial planning discourse, including the evolving meaning, scope and purpose of spatial planning globally; the scales of spatial planning (i.e. national, regional, sub-regional and local); multi-level integration within spatial planning; public participation; the interface between urbanization, sustainable growth management and spatial planning; spatial planning and housing development; integrated spatial development and transportation planning; and spatial planning and the urban informal economy. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers and practitioners/policy-makers in the multidisciplinary field of spatial planning, it appeals to readers seeking an international perspective on spatial planning systems and practices.

Resources and Environmental Management for Green Development
Resources and Environmental Management for Green Development

Author: Fengtai Zhang

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-02-09

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 2832544576

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Resources are the material basis for human development, while the environment is the fundamental condition for human development. The exploitation and utilization of resources will lead to environmental changes, which in return will have an impact on resources. At present, due to the increase of population and the continuous expansion scale of human production activities, how to address the trade-off between resources exploitation and environment protection has become an important issue for human sustainable development. Green development is a mode of economic growth and social development that emphasizes efficiency, harmony and sustainability. It can realize the coordination and sustainability among population, economy and social development, resources and environment, and is a promising means to solve the current problems associated with resources and environment.

EVOLUTION OF SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND SYSTEM IN JAIPUR DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN
EVOLUTION OF SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND SYSTEM IN JAIPUR DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN

Author: Izhar Ahmad

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1387143816

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The present study on evolution of settlement patterns and system in Jaipur district shows that evolution of settlement and its growth in an area is out¬come of, interplay of prevailing socio-economic, physico-cultural and techno-organizational factors in temporal and spatial aspect during the process of growth many more changes are found due to coming of different racial stock in the region and putting their imprints on physical landscape of the region in accordance with their cultural norms of society.

Spatio-temporal Approaches
Spatio-temporal Approaches

Author: Hélène Mathian

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1118649230

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Spatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order to represent and understand the evolution of social and environmental phenomena within the space. It is basedon examples in human geography and archeology (which will enable us to explore questions regarding various temporalities) and tackles social and environmental phenomena. Chapter 1 discusses how to apprehend change: objects, attributes, relations, processes. Chapter 2 introduces multiple points of view about modeling and the authors try to shed a new light on the different, but complementary approaches of geomaticians and thematicians. Chapter 3 is devoted to the construction of spatio-temporal indicators, to various measurements of the change, while highlighting the advantage of an approach crossing several points of view, in order to understand the phenomenon at hand. Chapter 4 presents different categories of simulation model in line with complexity sciences. These models rely notably on the concepts of emergence and self-organization and allow us to highlight the roles of interaction within change. Chapter 5 provides ideas on research concerning the various construction approaches of hybrid objects and model couplings.

Geographical Research
Geographical Research

Author: Kalluri Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9788170227069

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With reference to India.

Territorial Spatial Evolution Process and its Ecological Resilience
Territorial Spatial Evolution Process and its Ecological Resilience

Author: Xiao Ouyang

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-02-09

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 2832544541

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The evolution of land space demonstrates the shift of land use types from natural and semi-natural land (e.g., forest land and cropland) to built-up land, altering ecosystem cycling patterns and leading to degradation of ecosystem services in terms of regulation, provisioning and support. At the same time, production and living space crowding out ecological space brings high potential threats, such as soil erosion, forest productivity decline and habitat fragmentation. Accordingly, in response to the problems of imbalanced territorial space development, inefficient resource utilization and ecological environment degradation, how to improve the diversity, stability and sustainability of ecosystems is an urgent issue to promote modernization and green development in the new era of territorial space evolution.

CAA2014: 21st Century Archaeology
CAA2014: 21st Century Archaeology

Author: F. Giligny

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 1784911011

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This volume brings together a selection of papers proposed for the Proceedings of the 42nd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA), hosted at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University from 22nd to 25th April 2014.

Landscape Pattern Language
Landscape Pattern Language

Author: Yuncai Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9811964300

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This book presents a landscape pattern language framework for describing landscape spaces and offers a new approach to landscape expression and spatial reasoning. In addition to describing a conceptual model of landscape pattern language and its inner logical connections, the book discusses the functionality of landscape pattern language from both local and universal perspectives—effectively demonstrating that it can be used to highlight the individuality and characteristics of landscape space shaping. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for all graduate students, lecturers, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of landscape architecture, landscape planning, and regional planning, especially ecological planning and design.

Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Helena Hamerow

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-07-05

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0199203253

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The first major synthesis of the evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and a study of what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them.