Human geography

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage.

In "Heimatlos: Die Geschichte der menschlichen Vertreibung" entführt Anke Weidel die Leser auf eine faszinierende und tiefgründige Reise durch die Jahrhunderte der menschlichen Geschichte, geprägt von Flucht und Vertreibung.

This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements.

Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental ContextFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC.

Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte eines Landes, das als Wiege der nordischen Kultur gilt.

Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry.

Cities and towns are the original producers of many of the global environmental problems related to waste disposal, and air and water pollution.

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.

The book creates an augmented knowledge about human security beyond the warfare concept in the Arctic.

When compared to classical sciences such as math, with roots in prehistory, and physics, with roots in antiquity, geographical information science (GISci) is the new kid on the block.

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change.

This volume provides a broad outlook on migrant youth and schooling in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the United Kingdom.

This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House, Norway.

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature.

In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths.

Geographic information, spatial analysis and geospatial technologies play an important role in understanding changes in planetary health and in defining the drivers contributing to different health outcomes both locally and globally.

This title was first published in 2003.

Cet ouvrage a été conçu pour permettre de consolider et d'élargir les connaissances déjà acquises.

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings - whether urban design, border management or organisations - shape and form experiences of gender.

Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of Europe to CEE, pose new challenges for the regional study of race and racialisation, including growing diversity and the tightening of border security.

This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments.

The book focuses on the urban dimension of "e;global China"e;, especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures.

The fourth edition of the bestselling Remote Sensing for Geoscientists: Image Analysis and Integration expands the scope of remote sensing to cover image systems that did not exist 11 years ago when the third edition was published.

Découvrez l'art de vivre en camping-car à travers ce guide pratique qui vous accompagne vers une vie simple et minimaliste sur la route.

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives.

Descubra como transformar sua vida através da experiência única de morar em um motorhome, combinando liberdade, minimalismo e desenvolvimento pessoal.

Leaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites.

Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens.

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine).

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change.

Paseo La Estacion, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housing meet.

This title was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming countries for the past few decades.

In the 1980s feminist geography offered a stimulating new approach to the subject, providing fresh perspectives on traditional areas of the discipline.

This book sets out to historicise our understanding of contemporary trends by studying the long relationship between science, food and drink marketing and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

This book examines the relationship between sacred landscapes, indigenous knowledge, ethno-culture, and natural resource management.

Geographical economics starts from the observation that economic activity is clearly not randomly distributed across space.

The perfect Christmas gift for geography-lovers.

Geographic information system (GIS) computer technology is revolutionizing the way we interact with information.

A Heart For Imbabura: The Story of Evelyn Rychner is about persecution, romance, celebrationof the life and ministry of Evelyn Rychner, missionary to Ecuador, has it all.

The Arab Spring demonstrated the crucial importance of understanding the political awareness and behavior of the general public.

As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information.

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his urban geography.

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).

The Arab Spring demonstrated the crucial importance of understanding the political awareness and behavior of the general public.

The significance of modeling in managing the environment is well recognized from scientific and engineering perspectives as well as in the political arena.