Human geography

This volume examines Canada's migration policy as part of its foreign policy.

Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations.

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

With respect to the developing and threshold economies, it is no longer the poor who are the only focus of media attention.

In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development.

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using integrated modeling as applied to advanced water resource assessments.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

In the annals of India's history, a monumental uprising unfolded in 2020, echoing the resilience and coming together of large sections of its agrarian base.

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia.

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India.

Modern Advances in Tourism Research provides a thorough assessment of state-of-the-art academic research in this recent field of economic science.

This book critically interrogates how young people are introduced to landscapes through environmental education, outdoor recreation, and youth-led learning, drawing on diverse examples of green, blue, outdoor, or natural landscapes.

The book examines management strategies for developing and implementing strategic resilience and sustainability plans for sustainable and climate-resilient communities and organizations.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development.

Atmosphere is a term often used in everyday life to describe how a consumption space feels and has long been an important theme within marketing.

Globalization has, essentially, come to an end.

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of hospitality as a social phenomenon.

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy.

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrA-ncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature.

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

This title was first published in 2003.

Information shapes urban spaces in ways that most people rarely stop to consider.

Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place.

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

This book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa.

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.

Friends play a crucial role in international students' lives.

Cities are now home to 55% of the world's population, and that number is rising.

This book constructs a number of discourses, dialectics and analyses across the disciplines of urban form, architecture and urban experience, thus incorporating both conservation and design issues.

This is an unusual book.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources.

Environmental psychology is an increasingly important area of research, focusing on the individual and social factors responsible for many critical human responses to the physical environment.

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches.

This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a recognisable geographic entity.

Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes is a collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist over a number of years.

The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area's preferred cultural and racial identity.

Rural Regeneration in the UK provides an accessible yet critical overview of rural regeneration policy and governance in the UK.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book re-conceptualizes energy justice as a unifying agenda for scholars and practitioners working on the issues faced in the trilemna of energy security, poverty and climate change.

"e;Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner.

A full account of the people of Cuttack and their circumstances was written by Mr.