Human geography

This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities.

This volume presents the innovative methodologies, tools and techniques, as well as the challenges and ethical complexities of doing geographies of young people.

This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning.

This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age.

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian 'high-tech' workers living in the United States.

This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China.

This book highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities.

This book presents a comprehensive framework and indicators that can be used to assess a city's degree of resilience.

Management geography explores the spatial characteristics of management-related issues, especially of firms.

This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements.

This book introduces the issues of the contemporary state of Bihar, India, in terms of its performance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators and the initiatives taken by the central and state governments towards realizing human development.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study.

This volume explores the discourse of disaster and women in the existing social settings and state disaster-related affairs in coastal Bangladesh.

This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age.

This book provides an institutional interpretation of state-facilitated gentrification in Chengdu, an emerging central city of China.

This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead.

This book investigates domestic migration and migration intentions in China from the individual, city, and provincial levels.

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale.

This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of reaching positive peace.

This book investigates the historical evolution, regional differences, and quantitative measurement on street interface, which forms the street space and plays a very important role in urban form.

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles.

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.

This book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research.

This book provides a snapshot of the COVID-19 pandemic situation from the perspective of the tourism, aviation and hospitality industries.

This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings.

The Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly poor people living along the coastal regions of South Asia lose their lives almost every year.

This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.

This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design.

This book concentrates on the changing patterns of work and global social order as a result of COVID-19.

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities.

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India.

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer's perspective.

This book evaluates African Special Economic Zones from the perspective of learning from China's experiences with such Zones and the impact of Chinese policy and investment on African Zones.

This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future.

This book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South.

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Otautahi Christchurch.

This book offers a critical analysis of the diverse knowledge and knowledge production  processes  through  which 'alternative  agro-food networks'  can constitute a more plural 'knowledge economy'.

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of principles to accurately understand and analyze features on or near the earth's surface.

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China.

This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa.

As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond this failing social order.

This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).