This book focuses on urban water supply and governance in the Global South using urban Zimbabwe as a case study to provide insights and perspectives into the realities of the water governance.
This book examines India's geopolitical gravity, and argues that the country is well positioned to play a game-changing role in the evolving world order.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the pressing issue of environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling a gap in the existing literature.
This book examines how the concept of the just transition - the idea that environmental and social concerns must be reconciled - has been implemented in European Union policies.
This comprehensive handbook presents the current state of knowledge on geospatial technologies, techniques, and methods that are imperative for providing solutions to sustainable cities.
Island, dicht südlich des Polarkreises und fernab von Europa und Nordamerika im subarktischen Milieu des Nordatlantiks gelegen, fasziniert seit jeher Forscher und Reisende mit seiner einzigartigen Natur und Naturgeschichte.
Island, dicht südlich des Polarkreises und fernab von Europa und Nordamerika im subarktischen Milieu des Nordatlantiks gelegen, fasziniert seit jeher Forscher und Reisende mit seiner einzigartigen Natur und Naturgeschichte.
This book investigates the critical phenomenon of reverse migration during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, revealing the lived experiences of reverse migrant workers amid unprecedented social and economic upheaval.
The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like.
The book revolves around narrative as an intriguing, as well as intricate object of analysis and demonstrates how theoretically sound and empirically founded narrative research can look like.
Grenzregionen im Fokus: Europäische Zusammenarbeit und die Rolle der EVTZGrenzregionen stehen oft vor besonderen Herausforderungen – wirtschaftlich, infrastrukturell und sozial.
Grenzregionen im Fokus: Europäische Zusammenarbeit und die Rolle der EVTZGrenzregionen stehen oft vor besonderen Herausforderungen – wirtschaftlich, infrastrukturell und sozial.
This book investigates the critical phenomenon of reverse migration during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, revealing the lived experiences of reverse migrant workers amid unprecedented social and economic upheaval.
Evocatively demonstrates the power of walking as not only a source of individual connection to place, but as something that helps us rediscover, and fight for, what matters to our communities Leslie Kern, author ofFeminist CityA moving and delightful wander through the personal and the political.
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits.
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
L'Asie est baignee par des espaces maritimes nombreux et divers qui sont exploites pour leurs ressources principalement halieutiques et minerales ; outre des detroits strategiques qui sont d'une importance vitale pour les echanges commerciaux, tout en etant des cibles pour les activites illicites - notamment la piraterie, le terrorisme, l'immobilisation et l'arraisonnement de navires.
Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.
Cet ouvrage est issu du troisieme colloque international du laboratoire Pole de Recherche et d'Expertise sur la Dynamique des Espaces et des Societes (PREDES) organise du 29 au 31 mai 2024 a l'Universite de Kara, au Togo.
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder.
This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisner's contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development and sustainability.
This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the diverse applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in land and ocean mapping and surveying across different fields and regions, bringing forward the best practices and innovations happening worldwide.
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in low quality employment, among other damaging results.
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cultural experiences of African and African-descended peoples, from ancient times to the present.
This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.
This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems (SGPSs) in Latin America, with analysis and comparison across 10 different countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
