Human geography

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program.

Focusing on recent regional policy and important planning debates across the English regions, this book analyzes the issues, disputes and tensions that have arisen in regional planning in the new millennium.

This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state.

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West-a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migrationThe economic boom-and the devastation left in its wake-has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes.

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "e;March to the East.

The 'Aral Sea Encyclopedia' is the first one in the new series of encyclopedias about the seas of the former Soviet Union.

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route.

This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter.

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'.

Advances in high spatial resolution mapping capabilities and the new rules established by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States for the operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) have provided new opportunities to acquire aerial data at a lower cost and more safely versus other methods.

The devastating impacts of natural disasters not only directly affect humans and infrastructure, but also animals, which may be crucial to the livelihoods of many people.

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.

Migration - both within and between countries - is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues.

This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.

Climate may be defined as the synthesis of long-term atmospheric conditions characteristic of a particular place.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country.

Public Finance: A Normative Theory, Fourth Edition provides a classic text on the normative theory of government policy.

First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography.

This book offers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to place attachment from a European perspective.

This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education.

This edited collection from across the African continent offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives.

Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

The hard part of problem solving using GIS analysis is the selection of the proper tools.

During the 2015 and 2016 refugee crisis the EU called on the Member States to engage in protection burden-sharing.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary assessment of the major verticals of Blue Economy relevant to the mangrove ecosystem in Indian Sundarbans, which is a deltaic complex at the apex of Bay of Bengal.

There are many books about teaching in Geography, but this is the first dealing specifically with Pedagogic Research, its methods and practices.

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent.

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives.

This book presents the spatio-temporal and gender appraisal human development index (HDI) of all the 237 Panchayat Samitis of Rajasthan.

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations.

In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis.

In the last ten years, while GATT and (later) WTO were actively advocating the doctrine of free trade, the world witnessed unprecedented formation of regional trading blocs.

" Hic sunt leones " - " ici sont les lions " - écrivait-on, sur les atlas anciens de l'Afrique, comme si cet espace-là était, plus qu'un autre, voué à l'investissement de l'imagination.

Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections - connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes.

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

'An urgent and extraordinary book.

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

With the emergence of a truly global marketplace, regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment, and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest.

The dead are gone.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding.

Ornamental Lakes traces the history of lakes in England, from their appearance in the early eighteenth century, through their development in the 1750s, and finally to their decline in the nineteenth century.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.