Human geography

This book offers a comprehensive examination of spatial and environmental governance in contemporary Bali.

This book explores dominance in Australia's medical culture through the positioning of international medical graduates (IMGs).

This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China's economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration.

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.

Himalaya, one of the global biodiversity hotspots, is the abode of a variety of flora and fauna.

This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice.

This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town's intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta.

How do second-generation migrant women connect with their cultural heritage when ethnic ties have been weak or absent for most of their lives?

This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures.

Memory studies is a nascent and multidisciplinary research field, drawing from an impressive array of qualitative investigative methods deployed to do memory research.

This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is facing as it undergoes a profound social transformation.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Junger.

This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities.

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan.

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks.

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies.

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

This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based.

This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity.

This book presents the series of lectures on the "e;Belt and Road Initiatives"e; from the Guang Ming Forum organized by Guang Ming Daily.

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives.

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human's benefit.

This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh.

This book examines the social and political dimensions of migration from a perspective between the realms of demography and politics.

For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas.

The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

This book presents water insecurity issues in urban areas while developing a water security index and explores the innovative approaches to water development and management with examples from Asian cities.

This book highlights computationally enabled and digitally fabricated strategies used in the design of a series of full-size wooden structures.

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions.

This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies.

This book brings forward the concept of the geology-environmental capacity of ground buildings.

This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements.

Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city.

This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities.

The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the ';urban age' inaugurated in the twentieth century.

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional economic development.

This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries.

This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality.

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration.

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism.

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility and associated problems.

This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process.