This book explores how Earth Sciences including Geosciences can be reimagined to serve people in a world increasingly shaped by planetary-scale anthropogenic change (PSAC), commonly referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’.
This book highlights the remarkable technological changes taking place today that is profoundly changing almost all aspects of society including job creation and destruction, invasion of privacy to a degree nullifying its protection, the environments, replacement of human persons with machines, and innumerable other effects.
This book highlights the remarkable technological changes taking place today that is profoundly changing almost all aspects of society including job creation and destruction, invasion of privacy to a degree nullifying its protection, the environments, replacement of human persons with machines, and innumerable other effects.
Debt is not something that can be circumscribed to the relationship between economies, finance, 'development' and society, but operates within phenomena of intensifying social, gender and racial inequalities, as well as in the various forms of environmental and climate injustice.
Debt is not something that can be circumscribed to the relationship between economies, finance, 'development' and society, but operates within phenomena of intensifying social, gender and racial inequalities, as well as in the various forms of environmental and climate injustice.
As our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexities continue to increase, this book presents a refreshingly unconventional, creative, and radical meditation on urbanism and city living.
As our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexities continue to increase, this book presents a refreshingly unconventional, creative, and radical meditation on urbanism and city living.
This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.
This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.
This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.
This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.
Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.
Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume Six reviews the latest research topics, empirical findings, and methods that constitute frontier research in the field.
Throughout Europe regionalist movements claim more autonomy for their region, pointing at cultural and historical distinctiveness and the demands of their populations.
Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed.
Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed.
Addressing the issue of scale in governance, legal and extra-legal, the book draws on post-colonial studies, Indigenous geography and empirical and historical studies of the legal logics of Empire.
Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.
Throughout Europe regionalist movements claim more autonomy for their region, pointing at cultural and historical distinctiveness and the demands of their populations.
Ce travail vise a explorer les (re)configurations politiques survenues au cours de la decennie suivant la chute de Ben Ali en 2011, ainsi que leur relation complexe avec la dimension spatiale a Teboulba, une ville du Sahel tunisien (environ 42 000 habitants en 2024).
This unique book investigates the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through geospatial information lenses, making the case that geospatial information is central to the SDGs and is imperative to understand the place, location, communities, and the people to identify where the root of the problem lies.
The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle - and the looming threat of invasion by China.
This unique book investigates the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through geospatial information lenses, making the case that geospatial information is central to the SDGs and is imperative to understand the place, location, communities, and the people to identify where the root of the problem lies.
WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT provides a detailed introduction to the full range of advanced, multidisciplinary techniques used in the study of water resources from understanding individual aquifers to the protection and management of water in a sustainable way, compatible with the preservation of the environment.
