Human geography

European countries, including the DIALOG countries, have faced a major de- graphic change and transition in the last thirty years.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, definition, causes, effects, impacts and implications of climate change on young people globally, with a focus on Small Island Communities (SIDS) in particular.

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci presents a multitude of mathematical morphological approaches for processing and analyzing digital images in quantitative geomorphology and geographic information science (GISci).

This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation.

Increasingly, we hear of 'smart' cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an 'intelligent' connection with the 'network society'.

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context.

While the 'spatial turn' within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attention has so far been paid to the question of what we can learn about families when exploring space in its different facets.

Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy, but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity, and of the relationships among individuals and social groups.

This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Geographical information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for reporting on the environment, natural resources and social and economic development; modelling the environmental, biophysical, social and economic processes; assessing environmental and social impacts; evaluating environmental, social and economic policies and actions and dissimilating spatial information.

Today, remote sensing technology is an essential tool for understanding the Earth and managing human-Earth interactions.

Although globalization has led to increased cross-border traffic, there has been little examination of how crossing political boundaries affects tourism and vice versa.

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quality, evapotranspiration, water resource management, and ecological services.

This book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

This book examines the current situation, levels of adoption, management practices, and the future outlook of conservation agriculture in India, and also in other tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting, dynamic ecological d- cipline.

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces.

The consumption and distribution of food, as well as its production, has become a major public policy issue over the past few decades; what we eat is no longer merely a private matter but carries significant externalities for wider society.

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.

This book examines place and place-making in London's Borough Market.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India.

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "e;cartographic abstraction"e; - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction.

Environment and Society explores ways to promote the behavioural shifts necessary for creating a 'sustainable society'.

There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social.

Rural Development in the Digital Age explores current theoretical and policy developments in EU rural policy during the 4.

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why?

Big geospatial datasets created by large infrastructure projects require massive computing resources to process.

Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "e;ferocious"e; architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places.

First published in 1999, this collection of papers represents the latest thinking on the effects of globalisation and agri-food restructuring from a regional and peripheral perspective.

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down.

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

With the advance of science and technology, there have been breakthroughs in the field of classical research and methods of map projection.

This book investigates the strategic use of America's historical crime control, counterterrorism, national security and immigration policies as a mechanism in the modern-day Trump administration to restrict migration and refugee settlement with a view of promoting national security and preservation.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

Explores the complex relationship humans have with the environment.

Do large cities grow more or less rapidly than small ones?

Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China's economic rise.

Superb!

For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications.

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

"e;Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought.

'Big freeze' conditions, storms, severe flooding, droughts, and heatwaves - recent extremes in weather, with their resultant physical, economic and human losses, highlight the vulnerability of society to changes in the atmosphere.

The Supply Chain concept is one of the most important ideas to emerge in management research and practice in the last twenty five years.

What are the global challenges of the twenty-first century?

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities.