Human geography

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.

Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe.

This book presents research on how geography as a science, as a university degree and as a school subject can get ready for the "e;future.

This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.

"e;Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with which they are allied.

This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple suppliers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

Originally published in 1979, this book explains why so many people suffer behavioural changes in later life; how this affects those around them; the services that exist to assist older people and those who work with them and how such services can be profitably used.

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, information communication technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work.

This book describes the potential and challenges of cosmopolitanism from a philosophical and historical point of view.

The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time.

A study into the consideration of the temporal dimension of computerized spatial data handling using GIS.

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.

Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them.

National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA.

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide.

This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name.

Utilizing research from the U.

Volume V of theSix Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing technologies for studying water resources, including groundwater, floods, snow and ice, and wetlands.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework.

Sevnur Bülbül-Emanet fokussiert in ihrer Studie aktuelle gesellschaftliche Stereotype gegenüber Menschen mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund und beschäftigt sich mit dem Konzept der Integration.

In this volume the dynamic patterns of human density and distribution are examined in relation to the viability of native species and the integrity of their habitats.

Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region's place in the contemporary political and economic world.

Losses of forests and their insect inhabitants are a major global conservation concern, spanning tropical and temperate forest regions throughout the world.

Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines.

Social psychologists argue that people's past weighs on their present.

The essays in this collection show how electoral geography has shifted from empiricist activity towards a closer involvement with the wider issues addressed by social scientists.

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East.

Since the issues and discourses surrounding sustainable development entered its phase in our contemporary world, the political, social, economic, ecological, and cultural existence of our modern world has inevitably adopted varied measures to respond better to the demands of our time.

The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics.

In this book leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermaths.

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil.

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora.

There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development.

The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.

This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name.

This book explores the discipline of social-cultural anthropology through an extensive study of the Nicobarese people in one of the remotest human settlements of the Indian Ocean.

Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.

This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities.

In recent decades, extreme rains and drought have struck urban regions in Africa like never before.

This leading text offers a comprehensive, richly nuanced, and authoritative introduction to European geography.