Human geography

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c.

This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics.

This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives.

Anne-Katrin Schührer beschäftigt sich in diesem Buch mit der Motivation bürgerschaftlichen Engagements im Kontext von Migration und sozialer Ungleichheit.

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In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "e;March to the East.

This volume comprehensively discusses marine bioprospecting and its applications in the marine bioeconomy, specifically in clean energy generation, and in biomedical, industrial and agricultural sectors.

The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to landscapes of hopes, fears, migration, manufacturing and mortality?

The aim of this book, first published in 1977, is to use the tools developed by modern microeconomics to provide a framework for the analysis of policies towards the allocation of land and the control of activities using land.

This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism.

The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a 'could-be' risk management approach.

This guide for tomorrow's urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions.

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability.

Each of the jurisdictions within the United Kingdom is constantly refining the operational characteristics of its planning system and while there are some common practices, there are also substantive divergences.

Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field, North America's Natural Wonders guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in North America, points out features of interest, explains what they are seeing, and describes how these features came to be.

This book critically examines the public participation processes in urban planning and development by evaluating the operations of Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) through two meta-criteria of fairness and effectiveness.

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.

This book provides an original, impassioned exploration of memory studies and the uses of the past in the present.

This book explores the complex and various forms that privatization of education takes on a global scale at different ages of schooling.

This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing.

Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development.

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous.

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China's domestic and international migration.

Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool.

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for 'landscape', a term which has many uses and meanings.

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving the development of regional innovation systems (RISs), and explores regional innovation policy approaches.

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India's economic growth.

Ernesto Caravantes was among the multitudes of people who were affected by the Recession of 2008, the financial impact of which continues to be felt to this day.

Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field, North America's Natural Wonders provides everything the reader needs to understand the landscape.

This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China.

Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide.

Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics.

This "e;ingenious work about the course of human history"e; examines why civilizations evolved so differently in the Americas and Eurasia (Kirkus, starred review).

Volume II of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on digital image processing including image classification methods in land cover and land use.

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change.

Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

The concept of Third Culture Kids is often used to describe people who have spent their childhood on the move, living in many different countries and languages.

This book provides new insights and research studies on how developing countries come to terms with the nationalisation policies of Gulf economies that provide employment for their nationals.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.

Satellite remote sensing, in particular by radar altimetry, is a crucial technique for observations of the ocean surface and of many aspects of land surfaces, and of paramount importance for climate and environmental studies.

Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers.

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

This book takes a new look at the study of emigration since publication of Americans Abroad in 1992.