Human geography

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities.

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement.

Researching Internal Migration is a comprehensive guide for researchers and professionals to study internal migration in developing and underdeveloped economies.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the 'global city' but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million.

Considered the most significant recent agrarian movement in Mexico, the 1994 EZLN uprising by the indigenous peasantry of Chiapas attracted world attention.

Land degradation and desertification are amongst the most severe threats to human welfare and the environment, as they affect the livelihoods of some 2 billion people in the worlds drylands, and they are directly connected to pressing global environmental problems, such as the loss of biological diversity or global climate change.

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.

This book explores what happened to the homelands - in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace - after the fall of apartheid.

Religious Pilgrimages in the Mediterranean World examines the evolution of recent theoretical and methodological trends in pilgrimage studies.

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world.

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective.

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europe's most renowned social scientists working in the field of fisheries management and policy.

This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines.

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism?

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place.

This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country.

Written by experts, Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology provides comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field.

After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations.

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather.

Fieldwork is a hallmark of geographical scholarship, encompassing all the approaches by which we learn first-hand about the world.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly, and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark.

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

This book provides basic and advanced concepts of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), PolSAR, InSAR, PolInSAR, and all necessary information about various applications and analysis of data of multiple sensors.

This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences.

Urban Process and Power has two chief aims.

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today.

This book provides solid empirical evidence into the role that countries and communities of origin play in the migrant integration processes at destination.

The taxicab makes a significant contribution to the accessibility of a city, and provides a wide range of services across many different social groups and urban environments.

Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people.

This book describes the spatial and temporal perspectives on COVID-19 and its impacts and deepens our understanding of human dynamics during and after the global pandemic.

The digital age is also a surveillance age.

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked.

,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich.

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city.

How do drugs get to the market?

Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage incremental change.

What makes a visually appealing landscape?

This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region.

This 2-volumeset focuses on adolescent health in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), and presents the latest research on the health risk behaviours and social behaviours that adolescents from the MENA region engage in.

Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win.

This three volume reference series provides an authoritative and comprehensive set of volumes collecting together the most influential articles and papers on tourism, heritage and culture.

The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up.

Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives?

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.