Human geography

This book describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in contemporary Guyana and examines how Hindu traditions have been transformed in this multi-religious and multi-ethnic society.

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless.

Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics explores the implications of Zen Buddhist teachings and practices for our moral relations with the natural world.

This book analyses the development of geography as a scientific discipline in Brazil, highlighting how the established partnerships with French geographers have helped shape scientific progress in the country.

Originally published in 1988.

Over the past fifteen years or so, there has been a widespread and increasing fascination with the theme of mobility across the social sciences and humanities.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences.

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.

This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict.

This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom.

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The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies.

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract.

Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK.

This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life.

Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as has the Covid-19 pandemic.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an integrated and comprehensive approach to ocean governance and is used to establish a rational use of marine space and reconcile conflicting interests of its users.

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities.

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship.

Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers.

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

This collection brings together contributions from a new wave of research into language, space, and place, at the intersection of various disciplines, from geography to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

GeoSensor Networks addresses multiple research challenges related to real-time geosensor data collection, management, analysis, and delivery.

Wim Heijman Wageningen University, The Netherlands, E-mail: wim.

This book offers an introduction to public administration by a veteran practitioner, written for planners, as well as students seeking a public administration career and individuals simply wanting to learn more about responsible government.

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

This book includes twelve newly commissioned and carefully curated chapters each of which presents an alternative planning history and theory written from the perspective of groups that have been historically marginalized or neglected.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region.

Contemporary young people are situated within a complex and disorienting set of social changes that are reshaping how youth is constructed, governed and experienced across the globe.

From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment.

Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the way national and European identities are intertwined in old and new member states of the European Union, this volume assembles nine country case studies.

This title was first published in 2000: The book analyses the development of arctic environmental cooperation since the late 1980s until the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996.

Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into aging, older people and their families.

This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health.

Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate.

This edited collection, first published in 1981, presents a discussion of the urban problems faced in the developed world, and addresses the plans and policies devised by governments to solve them.

Set against a backdrop of concerns about the potential break-up or radical change to the global world order, this volume sets out to investigate the use of sports mega-events by a number of emerging states.

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

What makes people cosmopolitan?

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This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.