Human geography

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing countries embarking on the path of democracy and economic development.

In the global economy, regional development and innovation are increasingly an imperative to increase the competitive edge of EU economies.

Retailer's buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration.

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects.

The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage.

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

This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local communities were excluded.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 'megacities' - urban areas with more than five million inhabitants.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the field of overlap between historical ecology and the emerging sub-discipline of applied archaeology to highlight how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans.

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands.

In response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate.

Addresses the issues faced by developing nations in attempting to secure sustainable economic development.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.

Digital technologies, now ubiquitous around the world, can promote positive values, as well as support those that are less socially acceptable.

This fourth edition of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development guides readers through the procedural and practical aspects of developing land from the point of view of both planner and developer.

Published in 1998, this is a very timely book, especially with the current global concern for sustaining socio-economic development projects through increased civil society participation.

Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development.

The present work gives a firsthandauthoritative information on the Burdwan district of Bengal.

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography.

Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls.

Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components.

Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words.

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work.

Judaism is a religion and a way of life that combines beliefs as well as practical commandments and traditions, encompassing all spheres of life.

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities.

The early 21st century marks a new era in space exploration.

Drinking and drunkenness have become a focal point for political and media debates to contest notions of responsibility, discipline and risk; yet, at the same time, academic studies have highlighted the positive aspects of drinking in relation to sociability, belonging and identity.

Transport is an essential element of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and destinations.

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

Urban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places.

Pastoralism as a land use system is under recognized in terms of its contribution to food provision, livelihoods as well as to human security.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy.

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character.

The political and economic geography of Europe is changing - the European Community is expanding its boundaries towards EFTA and is resuming a closer association with Central and Eastern European regions engaged in radical restructuring.

Retaining all the material from the second edition and adding substantial new material, this third edition presents models and statistical methods for analyzing spatially referenced point process data.

This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations.

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe.

Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape.

In the most complete, accurate and accessible presentation of Karl Marx's theory of capitalism to date, Johan Fornas presents a guide for anyone who wants to understand how today's crisis-ridden society has emerged and is able to sustain and intensify its own deep inner contradictions.

This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics.

This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus on four theatres in the Greater Paris region.