Human geography

Originally published in 1979.

Explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supportersIslamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West.

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "e;global(izing)"e; city are creating more division between social classes, not less.

Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world.

In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world.

Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings.

The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities.

The author of the international bestseller Why We Buypraised by The New York Times as a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deservesnow takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about.

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south.

The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country.

The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

This book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts.

How should international law approach the critical issue of movement of peoples in the 21st century?

This book traces the assemblage that comes into being in the spaces and experiences of childbirth.

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress.

Heritage is a prized cultural commodity in the marketing of tourism destinations.

This book contains recent geographic work examining the changing geography of protected areas in the U.

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

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance.

The book provides a concise and interdisciplinary outlook on the impacts of climate change on coastal areas and how coastal communities adapt to them.

Recent years have seen a growth in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and collaborative networks involving knowledge-intensive and hi-tech industries.

Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit.

Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality.

This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces.

I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done.

Luxembourg has an atypical, efficient migration.

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions.

Harald Schernthanner verfolgt das Ziel, aus geoinformatischer Sicht eine konzeptionelle Grundlage zur räumlichen Optimierung von Immobilienportalen zu schaffen.

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

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

Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East.

The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times.

We are constantly told that New Labour forms an historic departure from the traditions of the Labour Party.

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change.

This book provides essential guidance to help schools in developing countries to promote and maintain hand hygiene practices, thus reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infection that cause both illness and absenteeism.

For the last 136 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

Defining markets has never been an easy task.

This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa.

Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world.

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

European metropolitan areas have experienced a marked reorganization associated with the processes of globalization and the European integration of economic act- ities on various spatial scales.

DER URSPRUNG DER NEUEN WELTRAUMFLOTTE UND WAFFENSYSTEME, die China einsetzt, liegt in den USA.

This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth.