This book presents essential case studies on the integrated modelling of ecosystem services and land-use change in the field of landscape ecology.

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluently and confidently in different social and academic contexts.

This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.

A comprehensive new textbook on Chinese foreign policy addressing the dramatic changes in China’s place in the world. It is unique in combining coverage of economic and security dimensions of…

This volume arises from the work of the International Geographical Union Working Group on Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change and Global Warming under the chairmanship of Professor Changming Liu…

At home, the development thought after the conclusion of the hundred-year change is the guiding thought for China’s further development, and abroad, the international communication and the construction of international…

A unified presentation of engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design, this book presents a wide ranging coverage of the whole subject of earthquake engineering so that the reader is given a…

This book provides arthroscopy techniques and applications to clinical practitioners, including sports medicine therapeutics, orthopaedic surgeons, specialist training candidates, rehabilitation clinicians. It also includes small incisions per minimally invasive surgery…