Human geography

This volume discusses the impact of geographical factors on the cultural and political history of Europe with specific chapters dedicated to impacts on the Protestant, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox regions.

This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state.

The devastating impacts of natural disasters not only directly affect humans and infrastructure, but also animals, which may be crucial to the livelihoods of many people.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This groundbreaking book delves deep into the history of AI, the major techniques and algorithms of machine learning and deep learning, and the critical role of data sources and processing in these disciplines.

For more than 35 years, planners have depended on The Planner's Use of Information to help them address their information needs.

Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy.

 This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration.

This book provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub national case studies.

Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term "e;heritage"e; from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects.

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

The so-called 'creative industries' are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of "e;otherness"e; in seven European countries.

Das Buch beschreibt die türkische Musikszene Deutschlands, ihre Entstehung seit den 1960er Jahren, ihre Strukturen um das Jahr 2000 und seither bis heute, sowie ihr Verhältnis zum Musikleben der Türkei.

Does travel broaden the mind?

The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries.

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.

This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today.

Cities house the majority of the world's population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change.

Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals.

In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent's history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike.

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "e;police of the border"e;?

This title was first published in 2001.

Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and practice of designing for gender in urban spaces.

Increasingly, everyday living and practices depend on how mobility (and immobility) is articulated through the ever-present influence of a range of physical and virtual infrastructures.

In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now in a "e;stakeholder democracy,"e; which is working to strengthen represented democracy in a time of fear.

This book investigates how the externalisation of EU migration policies is implemented in Tunisia after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 through the involvement of civil society organisations.

Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism.

Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary relevance and vibrancy.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

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As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.

This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia's fastest growing cities.

This book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology.

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community.

The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike.

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

Multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) is an important method that is used across many disciplines for exploring spatial heterogeneity and modeling local spatial processes.

Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia.

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century.

Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes.

Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities.

This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media.

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This book, first published in 1984, examines the economics and political issues raised by foreign investment in mineral development.

This book critically investigates the pervasiveness of anthropomorphised animals in popular culture.