Human geography

This book highlights the latest improvements in cadastre with examples and case studies from various parts of the world.

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

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s.

This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility.

Given the increasing shift of care from state residential services to community-based support, this book examines the complex geographies of family caregiving for young adults with intellectual disabilities.

First published 1997, this volume examines the way in which political corruption remains neglected as a matter of scholarly enquiry and research.

This book interrogates the persistence of Roma and migrant segregation in camps in order to understand how the creation of temporary enclosures can lead to enduring marginalisation.

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

Eine ernsthafte Diskussion über die Problematik des Klimawandels ist schwierig - vor allem wegen der wissenschaftlichen Unsicherheit über Ausmaß und Geschwindigkeit, aber ebenso wegen der Komplexität der Materie, die nur disziplinübergreifend erfolgversprechend bearbeitet werden kann.

Die neue Attraktivität von Städten ist ein faszinierendes Thema
- für Stadtplaner und -politiker: sie setzen auf neue Entwicklungskräfte,
- für Investoren: sie wollen für neue Nutzungen bauen,
- für Stadtnutzer: sie erwarten anregende Wohn- und Arbeitsmilieus,
- für Wissenschaftler: sie suchen nach neuen theoretischen Erklärungsansätzen.

This book is the first to focus on state-led 'extractive bargains,' designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated.

Borderland Religion narrates, presents and interprets the fascinating and significant practices when borders, migrants and religion intersect.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan's Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Traditionally, the study of 'power in the city' was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.

This thesis explores the physics of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) quantum gases.

This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa.

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant.

This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent years.

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories-a place that has grown enormously through "e;creative class"e; strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness.

Home to close to 60 per cent of the world's population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent.

This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit Leitfragen in der Landschaftsplanung.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed?

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes.

Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia.

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy.

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to power, inclusion/exclusion and hierarchy in a Turkish border town, with a focus on the impact of nation-state border on social stratification and change.

Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved.

The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by the fact that nearly 1,000 properties have now been designated as possessing Outstanding Universal Value and recognition given to the imperative for their protection.

Homo sapiens rank among the most parasitized of all animals.

This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology.

Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city.

Africa has experienced a number of territorial disputes over land and maritime boundaries, due in part to its colonial and post-colonial history.

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region.

Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress.

Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "e;otherness"e; and "e;encounter"e; which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism.

This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations.

This handbook is unique in its consideration of social and cultural contributions to sustainable oceans management.

49% of the world's population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusively on urban crimes.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

First published in 1997.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This book documents the practice-led research of painting as a peripatetic art practice through travel and transient life in Australia, India, and Pakistan.

Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans brings together authors who are thinking in, with and through the spaces of ocean/s and beaches in South African contexts to make alternative knowledges towards a justice-to-come and flourishing at a planetary level.

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space.

Für die Erfassung, Bewertung und Lösung komplexer Umweltprobleme ist eine interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung von Forschung und Lehre unerlässlich.