Human geography

This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective.

This book presents new research on solar mini-grids and the ways they can be designed and implemented to provide equitable and affordable electricity access, while ensuring economic sustainability and replication.

The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy.

This book provides a practice-based analysis of European Union (EU) diplomacy and community-building.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.

This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens.

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This book offers a comparative study of the progress made by two regional economies with many similarities-India and South Africa-in pursuit of human development by applying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As the COVID-19 crisis began to take shape, all eyes were on Italy, the first Western country to attempt a response to the deadly pandemic.

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies.

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities', this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places.

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and internationally.

Over the last two decades there have been numerous profound changes in UK society which have had an impact on the scale, geographies, meaning and experiences of internal migration.

The book analyzes the problems and potential of renewable energy development for the Coachella Valley of California and provides a useful case study for renewable energy feasibility assessments for other areas.

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'.

This book provides a strong multidisciplinary examination of the links between migration, remittances and sustainable development in Africa.

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization.

This volume offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people''s rich relationship with the natural world.

This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991.

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation.

In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence in 1962.

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others.

Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.

Bringing together case studies from several European countries, this book provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of European spatial policy.

Drawing on contemporary and historical case studies from Finland, Sweden and Norway, Progress or Perish highlights the roles that art, culture and academic research play alongside technology and economics as bearers of change, approaching the study of progress from the human level.

The Chinese shipping industry is a particularly prominent industry and has rapidly expanded over the last decade.

Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development.

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature.

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country.

Recent scientific development and politico-institutional experiences related to the conservation of the South-American Pantanal are explored in this book in relation to what is happening in other tropical wetland areas of international importance such as the Everglades in North America and the Okavango in Africa, as well as considering the European experience.

British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality examines whether colonial rule is responsible for the historical, and continuing, criminalization of same-sex sexual relations in many parts of the world.

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

This book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues.

This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions.

Nothing is more important to our world than finding a more comfortable relationship between the economy and the environment.

This book provides an overview of the diversified soil regimes in India.

This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad.

Modern Europe has rural roots.

This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, the Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Until about 1970, Western Europe was regarded as the great food-importing region of the world.

This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought, and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

In an increasingly global world, societies are being provisioned from a bewildering array of sources as new countries and new food commodities are drawn into international markets.