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  1. Silk Road to the contact zone: protestant movement in the Eastern Himalaya

    Why Kalimpong was considered a ‘contact zone’ to the missionaries during pre- and post-independence? How successful was the Protestant movement in...

    Anmol Mukhia in SN Social Sciences
    Article 06 January 2024
  2. Divulvæva: A Village in the Dry Zone

    Chapter 2 sets the stage by introducing Divulvæva village and providing the historical and contextual background necessary for understanding the...
    Chapter 2024
  3. Conclusion: Out of Their Comfort Zone

    The shift in Americans’ understanding of religious identity from ascribed to chosen has proven especially challenging for the American Jewish...
    Jerome A. Chanes, Mark Silk in The Future of Judaism in America
    Chapter 2023
  4. Impacts of the ‘3-layered Quarantine Zone’ on Compartmented Urban Spaces

    The Coronavirus pandemic primarily affected urban populations due to its high transmissibility, constant mutations, and the unavailability of...
    Maycon Sedrez, Ali Cheshmehzangi, ... Hang Zhao in Resilience vs Pandemics
    Chapter 2023
  5. Water Stresses and Responses in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone

    The Central Dry Zone (CDZ) of Myanmar is the heartland of the Burmese culture, and in many ways, it is socially and culturally coherent with the...
    Leonard Drury, Robyn Johnston, Petra Schmitter in Climate Risks to Water Security
    Chapter 2023
  6. Human-elephant conflict in the Sri Lankan dry zone: investigating social and geographical drivers through field-based methods

    Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Sri Lanka has escalated over the recent years, with, on average, 300 elephant deaths annually and human casualties...

    Sören Köpke, Sisira S. Withanachchi, ... Andreas Thiel in GeoJournal
    Article Open access 02 July 2023
  7. Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Late Adulthood: Lessons From Sardinia’s Blue Zone

    This study was conducted to investigate whether socio-cultural context (i.e., urban versus rural), perceived physical health, marital status, and...

    Maria Chiara Fastame, Marilena Ruiu, Ilaria Mulas in Journal of Happiness Studies
    Article Open access 06 July 2021
  8. Special economic zones location decision and quality of life in Ethiopia: the case of Bole Lemi-1 and Eastern Industry Zone

    Ethiopia’s special economic zone (SEZ) development program features fuzzy knowledge about location decision-making and its effect on host urban...

    Eyasu Kumera, Berhanu Woldetensae in GeoJournal
    Article 28 February 2023
  9. Cycling Through the Buffer Zone: Working-Class Cyclists on Rudolf Greyling Street, Bloemfontein

    This paper presents an ethnographic exploration of working-class commuter cyclists on Rudolf Greyling (RG) Street in Bloemfontein, Free State, South...

    Tarminder Kaur, Shawn Forde, Lyndsay Hayhurst in Urban Forum
    Article 08 November 2022
  10. GIS-based AHP analysis to recognize the COVID-19 concern zone in India

    This study was planned to identifying the Corona concerns zone during COVID-19 transmission in India. The death rate was very high due COVID-19...

    Prasoon Soni, Ithi Gupta, ... Dilip Kumar in GeoJournal
    Article 06 March 2022
  11. The Gulf as a Global Contact Zone: Chronotopic Identities and (Linguistic) Landscapes

    The Gulf distinguishes both as a regional system in international relations and a global contact zone for the occurrence of many social issues....
    Letizia Lombezzi in Social Change in the Gulf Region
    Chapter Open access 2023
  12. Dengue risk zone mapping of Thiruvananthapuram district, India: a comparison of the AHP and F-AHP methods

    Dengue fever, which is spread by Aedes mosquitoes, has claimed many lives in Kerala, with the Thiruvananthapuram district bearing the brunt of the...

    G. Harsha, T. S. Anish, ... Sekhar L. Kuriakose in GeoJournal
    Article 16 September 2022
  13. Art in Contact Zone in the UAE and Qatar: Trans-Regional Cultural Policy and Rise of New Artistic Movements

    Dubai and Doha are attempting to be known as transcultural places. These cities are trying to be in a status that Mary Louise Pratt has named...
    Mohammad Reza Moridi in Social Change in the Gulf Region
    Chapter Open access 2023
  14. Coping strategies of rural households to drought in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Northwestern Nigeria

    The impact of drought may vary from community to community and people over time. However, this depends on the effectiveness and sustainability of the...

    Nuraddeen Abdullahi, Maharazu A. Yusuf, ... Murtala U. Mohammed in GeoJournal
    Article 23 January 2022
  15. The “Social License to Operate” in the OHADA Zone

    The African continent is going through a profound period of change. For much of its recent history, its natural resources have been exploited with...
    Living reference work entry 2022
  16. The Zone of Cheap Labor

    This chapter empirically turns from cheap scrap metal resources and industrial recycling to labor resources to examine the heterogeneous groups of...
    Umut Kuruüzüm in Building from Scrap
    Chapter 2022
  17. Exploration and Innovation of Zhoushan Marine Tourism Industry in the Context of Free Trade Zone

    Zhoushan is one of the most important node city on the maritime Silk Road. Zhoushan Islands have distinct geographical advantages and abundant...
    Conference paper 2022
  18. Mapping of sacred groves in Ghana: the case of Talensi district in the guinea ecological zone

    Sacred groves are a means of conservation or sustainability of natural resources through cultural beliefs or spiritism; hence, their essence and...

    Michael Batame, Isaac Sarfo, ... Dzifa Adimle Puplampu in SN Social Sciences
    Article 19 August 2023
  19. Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone

    In recent years, archaeological studies of long-term change and transformation in the human past have often been dominated by the discussion of...

    Article Open access 13 April 2021
  20. The Imagined Latent Zone: How the Myth of Cultural Authenticity Survived the Covid-19 Lockdowns

    Computer-mediated interactions dramatically increased in volume, frequency, variety and duration globally, amid the ‘lockdowns’ of the Covid-19...
    Elizabeth Kath, Marcelo El Khouri Buzato in The Digital Global Condition
    Chapter 2023
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