Human geography

Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary.

With its diverse histories of slavery, plantations, colonialism and independence, the Caribbean is richly layered, highly complex and a wonderful example of people's resistance.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on Military Geosciences (ICMG), held 24-28 June 2019 in Padua, Italy.

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios.

Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Deng Xiaoping's rule has seen fundamental economic change in China.

This book depicts the evolution of Singapore's family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges.

In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the "e;migration crisis"e;, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists.

This book presents strategies and models for cultural heritage enhancement from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Model-based Geostatistics for Global Public Health: Methods and Applications provides an introductory account of model-based geostatistics, its implementation in open-source software and its application in public health research.

This book presents some of the most recent tools, methods and concepts in historical ecology.

High Resolution Site Surveys brings together the full range of site surveying techniques for the first time, to provide a unified approach to marine and land-based resolution surveying.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

This text reflects the interdisciplinary nature of GIS research and includes coverage of such themes as: virtual GIS; spatial analysis; artificial intelligence; spatial agents and fuzzy systems; and space-time GIS and GIS applications.

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities.

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities.

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where 'alternative' food practices are increasingly visible.

What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today?

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders.

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

Published in 1997, this book traces the development of European Food Aid Policy from its inception in the 1960s through to the 1990s.

This book was first published in 1947.

This work reflects preoccupations with the threats posed to our environment due to climatic factors, major and natural hazards of all kinds and demographic influences.

The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a 'successful' polycentric metropolis.

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem.

This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.

Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

This volume focuses on the process of return migration, from a holistic and policy-oriented perspective.

European Immigration Policy is devoted to the problems of minorities and immigrants within the European Community.

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal).

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.

Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural environments.

EU studies increasingly recognize the salience of new regional insights.

In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet's fish stocks.

This volume explores the links between gender, space and agency in India.

How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces?

In this illuminating history, Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the development of Jewish history from ancient times to the present day.

This book examines the influence of architectural design in the conservation of historic buildings by discussing in detail an important building complex in Rome: the Temple of Venus and Rome, the monastery of Santa Maria Nova and the church of Santa Francesca Romana.

This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece.

This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives.

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.