Human geography

An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand.

This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices.

This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami triggered by an underwater earthquake pummeled the coasts of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and other countries along the Indian Ocean.

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day.

Originally published in 1961, this book was the first comprehensive work on South African geography that also presented a balanced account of all facets of the economic life.

This book discusses the past, present, and future of migration in the Arctic.

The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change.

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?

At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions.

This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio.

A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research.

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter.

Capitalist agriculture relies heavily on the pollination work of bees, but this system harms bees in innumerable ways.

The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies.

The only book of its kind to cover both the Achaemenid period and the thousand years following Alexander's conquest, The Persians explores the period from the seventh century BC, to the seventh century AD, and presents a comprehensive introduction to ancient Persia.

The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena.

In recent years, western discourse about the Balkans, or "e;balkanism,"e; has risen in prominence.

Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict.

Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world.

This book explores the relationship between land use planning and ethno-religious segregation.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

Das Buch greift die Diskussion um Inklusion in den letzten Jahren in den unterschiedlichsten gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen kritisch auf.

The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo.

This volume focuses on the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), education, to look at sustainability from various angles with the purpose of challenging preconceptions about what sustainable education might entail and how it should be conducted.

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

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

This book addresses the complex socio-political context of natural resource management in coastal and marine environments throughout the contemporary Pacific Islands and provides lessons that can be applied around the globe.

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

Originally published in 1987.

During the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in issues of land reform in developing and transitional countries.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

Comprehensive examination of restraint in international politics, considered across a range of contexts as a political process, device, and strategy.

This book offers an analysis of the territory of Barcarena, in the Brazilian Amazon.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

This book focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered.

This book studies the historical changes of the cityscape of Nanjing from the point of view of geographical systems.

This contributed volume considers the emergence of coworking as centered in labor issues.

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

In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty.

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two.

This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities.

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border.