Overview
- Provides information on using geospatial techniques to address environmental issues in a tropical megacity
- Helps informing decision makers, particularly for rapidly urbanising countries
- Provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities
- Based on case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The book Dhaka Megacity: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health presents the use of geospatial techniques to address a number of environmental issues, including land use change, climatic variability, urban sprawl, population density modelling, flooding, environmental health, water quality, energy resources, urban growth modelling, infectious diseases and the quality of life. Although the work is focused on the Megacity of Dhaka in Bangladesh, the techniques and methods that are used to research these issues can be utilized in any other areas where rapid population growth coupled with unplanned urbanization is leading to environmental degradation.
The book is useful for people working in the area of Geospatial Science, Urban Geography, Environmental Management and International Development. Since the chapters in the book cover a range of environmental issues, this book describes useful tools for assisting informed decision making, particularly in developing countries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ashraf M Dewan is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Spatial Sciences at Curtin University, Western Australia (on leave from his substantive position as Associate Professor in the Geography & Environment Department at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Robert J Corner has been a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia since 2001, prior to which he worked for the CSIRO. He has worked extensively on the use of geospatial tools in environmental and health geography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dhaka Megacity
Book Subtitle: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health
Editors: Ashraf Dewan, Robert Corner
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6735-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6734-8Published: 23 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0049-6Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6735-5Published: 09 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 405
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Environmental Management, Epidemiology, Quality of Life Research