Human geography

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

This book explores how we create deep maps, delving into the development of methods and approaches that move beyond standard two-dimensional cartography.

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing.

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears, wolves and big cats.

First published in 1999.

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology.

Discussing common understanding of the concepts of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion, this volume critically examines the interpretation and praxis of diversity and inclusion in relation to marginalized populations-from women, sexual minorities, minority newcomers, and aboriginal communities.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday.

This book discusses the responsibility, or otherwise, of tourism activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability.

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America.

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light.

Although Foucault's work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some 'mobilities' scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic.

Climate change is a critical issue for heritage studies.

Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries.

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries.

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA.

This book of critical rural geography breaks new ground by drawing attention to sex and sexualities outside the metropolis.

Big Data Analytics for Smart Urban Systems aims to introduce Big data solutions for urban sustainability smart applications, particularly for smart urban systems.

There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel.

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

Latin America's Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America.

This text shows how the principles and technologies of object-oriented programming, distributed processing and internet protocols can be embraced to further the reliability and interoperability of datasets for the professional GIS market.

This book increases the awareness of youth political agency and how it relates to adults, governments, communities, and local and global discourse.

This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims.

The articles in this collection discuss the role of marketing in development, and include case studies from various developing countries.

Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value.

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

This book provides an overview of the emergence of geography as a discipline in Bangladesh and the contributions made by local geographers towards the development of the country.

Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation.

The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious.

This book focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region.

South Africa's transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country's national climate change response strategy.

This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice.

An historical and contemporary account of migrant crime in Australia, this book explores a range of issues from mental health and victimology to immigration policy and legal analysis, arguing that it is birthplace, not race, which impacts upon crimes committed by migrants.

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe.

Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "e;best"e; through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "e;worst"e; as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers.

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.

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This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy.

It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered.

Atmospheric Processes and Systems presents a concise introduction to the atmosphere and the fundamentals of weather.

Maarten Vink explores change and resilience of citizenship under pressure from European integration.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.