Human geography

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl redevelopment in Mumbai, India.

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations.

The Western powers established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after World War II as "e;"e;permanent machinery"e;"e; to anchor the Bretton Woods system.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

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This title was first published in 2003.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the "e;migration crisis"e;, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.

This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Africa.

This book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration.

The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated 'systems' approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people's livelihoods.

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries.

This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography's resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique.

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined.

The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged.

This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography.

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention.

China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020.

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation.

The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.

Covering a wide range of topics and citing examples from the developed and developing countries the present set shall be of great use and immense utility for those who are interested in the study of man and environment relationship and those who are concerning increasingly with the problems of environmental pollution, sustainable development and future of man his use and misuse of the biotic and abiotic resources.

Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent.

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.

Insurance is the world's largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure.

Dieses Buch zeigt die Chancen und Herausforderungen auf, die sich in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft durch Flüchtlinge ergeben.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.

Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region.

This book is written to transform land disputes toward win-win outcomes utilizing the latest sustainable development theory.

In both academic scholarship and the popular imagination, the globality of modern society has been represented by global cities as the corporate and financial epicentres for capital accumulation, cosmopolitan cultures and innovative change.

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 5 typical human settlement types: river valleys, water networks, hills, plains, and arid areas.

Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city.

In the wake of globalization, numerous social scientists are turning to concepts of mobility, fluidity and hybridity to characterize a presumed de-territorialization and de-bordering of contemporary social and economic relations.

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country's development landscape and urban-rural relationships.

This book examines urban planning and infrastructure development in Japanese cities after the second world war as a way to mitigate the risks of disasters while pursuing sustainable development.

This book provides a concise and informative introduction to how geography and institutions shaped the development of nations, showing that while the role of institutions for the development of nations is indisputable, the role of geographic factors remains underexplored and underestimated.

Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today.

This volume foregrounds some of the unknown or lesser-known incidents of xenophobia and genocide from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Rwanda.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

Originally published in 1996.

Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers.

Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process, from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research.

This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales.

This book addresses one of the most important research activities in empirical macroeconomics.