Human geography

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration.

This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals.

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development.

This book examines how migration and mobility were controlled, supported, and restricted in early modern Europe and European colonies.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

This book analyses various forms of liminality and transgression in different geographies and demonstrates how and why various physical and symbolic boundaries create liminality and transgression.

Shifting dynamics of peoples, livelihoods and territories, influenced by global warming, require new ways of thinking and new kinds of politics beyond the sovereignties of idealized traditional European nation-states.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

Shifting dynamics of peoples, livelihoods and territories, influenced by global warming, require new ways of thinking and new kinds of politics beyond the sovereignties of idealized traditional European nation-states.

Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities.

Exploring Cuba: Erasing Fears Through Multicultural Education details the cultural and professional exchanges to Cuba organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) between 2015 and 2019, with additional reflections on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Cuba-U.

Viewed as a symbol of urban blight and decline in the late 1970s and 1980s, Bushwick today is bustling and bursting with color, creativity, and commerce.

Viewed as a symbol of urban blight and decline in the late 1970s and 1980s, Bushwick today is bustling and bursting with color, creativity, and commerce.

Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment.

Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment.

Ideas about matters of public concern are shaped by the spaces associated with them: Events occur in particular places, political regulations apply to specific territories, people in different locations are differentially affected by issues.

This book is about home and international law.

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York.

Lunar explorations have received increasing attention in recent years with tremendous application values, including using the Moon as a remote sensing platform for Earth observation.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects.

The book describes a novel method of engaging rural communities in partnership initially with nurse learners to research and employ the Community Health Assessment Sustainability Education (CHASE) model.

Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses.

This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route.

This book describes the ethnic identity construction involved in 'being', 'feeling' and 'doing' Chinese for multi-generation Australian-born Chinese, who were born and raised in a different social environment.

L’eau est aujourd’hui un bien particulièrement précieux.

This volume offers a wide-ranging discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.

This book examines the extent to which the environment is addressed in the sustainability plans of Canadian cities.

This book is a critical study of international adoption in Sweden, based on analysis of adoption-related texts, images and videos.

This book is written to transform land disputes toward win-win outcomes utilizing the latest sustainable development theory.

Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa's diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space.

Discover Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, in this thematic encyclopedia that covers everything from geography and economics to etiquette and pop culture.

This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China's Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China's rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc.

This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015.

First published in 1965, Africa provides a geographical, political, economic and social description of the continent.

This book provides in-depth perspectives on communal food and dining practices.

Discover Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, in this thematic encyclopedia that covers everything from geography and economics to etiquette and pop culture.

By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept.

This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making.

La vitesse est au cœur de nos sociétés.

This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China's Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China's rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc.

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores "e;Rastahood"e;, a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium.

This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre's work for empirical research on the U.

This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories.

This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country.

This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country.

Francis Stache, auteur passionné, engagé totalement, nous raconte dans un langage courant, de temps en temps technique, parfois anecdotique, les premiers pas de cette ville hors du commun, sortie de terre très rapidement pour accueillir en 1972 les premiers étudiants.

This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland transformation, agriculture development, climate change, and environment with the application of advance geospatial technology.