Download or read book Geography and Environment of Hong Kong written by Amelie Novak and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the captivating world of Hong Kong, where the hustle and bustle of urban life harmonizes with serene natural landscapes. In "Hong Kong: A Symphony of Urban Splendor and Natural Wonders," students will embark on an enlightening journey through one of the most dynamic regions on the planet. Exploring Geographical Marvels: Hong Kong's unique geographical features unfold across its myriad of islands, each with its own distinct character. From the towering skyscrapers of Hong Kong Island to the tranquil beaches of Lantau, this module paints a vivid picture of a region that seamlessly blends modernity with nature. Discover the bustling urban areas, home to some of the world's most impressive architectural feats, alongside untouched natural landscapes that offer a sanctuary from the city's relentless pace. Urban Areas and Natural Landscapes: The book delves into the contrasts that define Hong Kong's geography. Students will explore the densely populated urban areas where innovation and tradition coexist, creating a vibrant cultural tapestry. Beyond the urban jungle, the verdant hills and pristine beaches beckon, providing a haven for nature enthusiasts. From the iconic Victoria Peak to the serene Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's diverse topography is revealed in stunning detail. Environmental Challenges and Conservation Efforts: In a region known for its rapid development, the environmental challenges are significant. This module addresses the pressing issues of pollution, habitat loss, and climate change that Hong Kong faces. Through comprehensive discussions, students will gain insights into the innovative conservation efforts and sustainable practices that strive to balance development with environmental stewardship. Learn about the policies, initiatives, and grassroots movements dedicated to preserving Hong Kong's natural beauty for future generations.
Download or read book A Geography of Hong Kong written by C. L. So and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Hong Kong written by Pui-yin Ho and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of urban development in Hong Kong since 1841. Pui-yin Ho explores the ways in which the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the city's development. From colonial governance, wartime experiences, high density development and adjustments before and after 1997 through contemporary challenges, this book explores forward-looking ideas that urban planning can offer to lead the city in the future. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change, this book looks at how a local Hong Kong identity emerged in the face of conflict and compromise between Chinese and European cultures. In doing so, it brings a fresh perspective to urban research, providing historical context and direction for the future development of the city. Hong Kong's urban development experience offers not only a model for other Chinese cities but also a better understanding of Asian cities more broadly. Urban studies scholars will find this an exemplary case study of a developing urban landscape. Town planners and architects will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book as it shows how Hong Kong can be taken to the next stage of urban development and modernisation.
Download or read book China s Geography written by Gregory Veeck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite China's clear and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey, the most current and authoritative introduction available, vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors show contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces. They consider historical and current successes and difficulties, including economic, political, cultural, and environmental challenges, while placing China in its international context as a massive, developing, diverse nation that is meeting the needs of its 1.4 billion citizens while becoming an aggressive major regional and global player. Through clear prose and 160 insightful maps, tables, and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great economic, political, and social differences found throughout China's many regions. Accompanying the book is a companion website that provides a wealth of additional materials, including sample lectures, color versions of all the graphics, time series and provincial data files for student projects in Excel, lists of favorite films and websites, and public domain maps for student use.
Download or read book Global Cities written by Robert Gottlieb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.
Download or read book Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education written by Michael C. Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-12-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.
Download or read book China written by David W. S. Wong and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become a superpower, exerting significant influence globally. This accessible text integrates thematic and regional coverage to provide a panoramic view of China--its physical geography; population, including ethnic diversity; urban development; agriculture and land use; transportation networks; dynamic economic processes; and environmental challenges. Cultural and political geography topics are woven throughout the chapters. The text also offers in-depth assessments of selected regions, capturing the complexity of this vast and populous country. It is richly illustrated with more than 150 maps, tables, figures, and photographs--including 8 pages in full color--which are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. Pedagogical Features *Chapter-opening learning objectives. *Chapter-opening key concepts and terms. *Extensive notes pointing students to relevant online resources. *Engaging topic boxes in every chapter.
Download or read book International Handbook on Geographical Education written by Rod Gerber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am very pleased to have been asked by Rod Gerber to provide a preface to such a book. Not least because of the twenty-four chapters, eight are written by former students or colleagues with whom I have worked in the past and whom I still meet at conferences on geographical education. It is with a certain pride and joy that I note the progress which has been made in geographical education both in its day to day teaching and in research, in the twenty years following the end of my term of office as Chair of the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union (CGEIUG). My successors, Joe Stoltman, Hartwig Haubrich, Rod Gerber and now Lea Houtsonen, have done much and are continuing to work hard, to foster the development of geographical education. This book is proof, if proof were needed, that the international collaboration in this field, is alive and well, with contributions coming from all the continents (except Antarctica!). It would be a moribund subject that remained unaffected in one way or another by developments on the 'great world stage', as Fairgrieve (1926) would have put it. And, as Rod Gerber shows, the issues of globalisation, of cultural encounters, of differing value systems, of new technologies, of variable economic development and of environmental quality, all feature as topics which influence and are influenced by, geographical education.
Download or read book Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis written by David R. Meyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centres, to its celebrated handover to China in 1997. Throughout this period, Hong Kong has been prominent as a pivotal meeting place of the Chinese and foreign social networks of capital and as such has been China's window on to the world economy, dominating other financial centers such as Singapore and Tokyo. Looking into the future, the author presents an optimistic view of Hong Kong in the twenty-first century, challenging those who predict its decline under Chinese rule. This accessible and broad-ranging look at the story of Hong Kong's success will interest anyone concerned with its past, present and future.
Download or read book Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability written by Zijian Li and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography, environment, sustainability, culture and education standing alone or in any combination, provide the ingredients for a variety of stews. They are all difficult to define and they generate endless debates for theoreticians and practitioners about their meaning and significance. The editors have divided the chapters that follow into two parts in an effort to unit these diverse disciplines. Part 1 is concerned with cultural foundations and curriculum issues related to geographical and environmental education for sustainability. Part 2 comprises a series of chapters presenting education for sustainability in the contexts of national cultures.
Download or read book Environment Education and Society in the Asia Pacific written by John Fien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book explores the interaction of global environmental discourses and local traditions and practices in twelve countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Based upon two parallel groups of studies, reviewing cultural influences in individual countries, and the attitudes of young people across the region, it has important implications for environmental policy and education.
Download or read book Environmental Geography and Natural Hazards written by A. A. Pirazizy and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Download or read book Hong Kong Macau and the Pearl River Delta A Geographical Survey written by Koon-kwai Wong and published by 香港教育圖書公司. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collective undertaking of all faculty members of the Geography Department, HKBU. It provides readers with a concise and authoritative account of the geography of one of China’s most dynamic development regions — Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta region. This book is divided thematically into 4 parts. Part I introduces the unique geographical characteristics of the region. Part II focuses on environmental and landscape dynamics and the impacts of rapid economic development on the natural environment since 1978. Part III ponders on developmental issues, such as urbanization, industrialization, energy development, transportation, socio-economic development and planning issues. Chapters of this part succinctly analyze these issues in the context of regional development and globalization concerns. Part IV discusses the sustainable future of the region.
Download or read book Continuum Guide to Geography Education written by Graham Butt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to geography education. Entries, arranged alphabetically, cover: government legislation and reports; famous geography educators; resources; research findings; movements, trends, debates and issues; organizations; and key concepts. An analytical index helps the reader to choose paths through the book, connecting entries.
Download or read book Handbook on China s Urban Environmental Governance written by Fangzhu Zhang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. With in-depth case studies on governing waste management, climate change, and energy transition, it will illuminate the relationship between the state, market, and society in environmental governance.
Download or read book Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments written by Philip Neil Owens and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be little doubt that issues relating to soils and sediments are moving up the political agenda, and a realization that we need to collectively manage and protect both soil and water resources. In order to manage this delicate interface, attention is being increasingly directed towards holistic land-river management, demanding a greater appreciation of the interaction between soils and sediments. This book reviews the major achievements recently made in soil erosion and sediment redistribution research and management, and identifies future requirements.
Download or read book Young People and the Environment written by John Fien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours that comprise the environmental attitudes of young people in the Asia-Pacific region and the cultural, political and educational contexts that have shaped them. The findings are based upon a questionnaire survey of over 10,000 young people together with focus group studies in India, South China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the west coast of the USA.
