Human geography

This book is a comparative analysis of children of international migrants in Britain, France and Germany, using survey data from the EFFNATIS project.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

First published in 1999, this book goes beyond the standard economic tools used to evaluate the effectiveness of arts in redevelopment processes.

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are 'one' people in two countries and explores how that claim intersects with the politics and development needs of the two countries.

This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country.

What is family farming?

For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the world's needy, from sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of natural disasters.

This book is about the city of Peiping in China, also known as Beijing and Peking, and a city of great historical significance.

This book presents a groundbreaking examination of the intricate dynamics shaping the customized bus (CB) service industry.

The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition.

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.

The Economics of Globally Shared and Public Goods responds to an urgent need to consolidate and refine the economic theories and explanations pertinent to globally shared resources.

Originally published in 1993, Urban Land and Property Markets in the Netherlands provides a detailed explanation of how the land and property markets of the Netherlands work.

Every movement has its bellweathers, the ideas that lead the way and rally its adherents towards a set of shared values and visions.

What makes a sustainable city?

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.

Urban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen the economic competitiveness of their cities.

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers.

In this revealing new book, B s and Dunn explore the phenomenon of 'autochthony' - literally 'son of the soil' - in African politics.

In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city.

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology.

In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death.

Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process, a genuinely globalised sphere of biomedical production and consumption.

Originally published in 1963, this book was the first to survey the rural transport problem as a whole, and it includes the results of extensive research in an important but until then neglected field.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

A sustainable city has been defined in many ways.

This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

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

This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization.

This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

Many disciplines are concerned with manipulating geometric (or spatial) objects in the computer - such as geology, cartography, computer aided design (CAD), etc.

With the widespread use of GIS, multi-scale representation has become an important issue in the realm of spatial data handling.

Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi's mantra connecting "e;swaraj"e; and "e;charkha"e;.

Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000.

This book provides a concise overview of the current state of the art in cybersecurity and shares novel and exciting ideas and techniques, along with specific cases demonstrating their practical application.

In the large body of literature produced during the last fifteen years on the transformation of Eastern European societies after the fall of communism, studies investigating changes in urban form and structure have been quite rare.

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies.

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The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left.

The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities.

Looking beyond a purely scientific discussion of hydrology, the authors of this volume emphasize that mankind needs to recognize the urgency of the situation in which our water is threatened.