Human geography

This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive.

In diesem essential wird praxisorientiert dargestellt, wie interaktive Exkursionen im Hochschulkontext von Studierenden vorbereitet und moderiert werden können.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011-12, increasing numbers of civilians sought refuge in neighboring countries.

This book explores significant aspects of the New Urban Agenda in the Asia-Pacific region, and presents, from different contexts and perspectives, innovative interventions afoot for transforming the governance of 21st-century cities in two key areas: (i) urban planning and policy; and (ii) service delivery and social inclusion.

This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices.

This book examines the impacts of tourism-led transformations on the industrial historical waterfront at Darling Harbour and The Rocks in Sydney, Australia in the context of urban restructuring and deindustrialisation.

This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors.

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia.

This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world.

This volume is devoted to the geographical-or spatial-aspects of population research in regional science, spanning spatial demographic methods for population composition and migration to studies of internal and international migration to investigations of the role of population in related fields such as climate change and economic growth.

This book focuses on the urban wind environment of urban center district.

Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book presents a comprehensive debate and analysis of existing Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodologies, designed under the auspices of the ESPON programme since the mid-2000s.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, in its 2017 and 2018 editions, which were held in Cadiz and Madrid, Spain.

This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of contemporary Asia's architectural theorisations and phenomena based on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character.

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus.

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam.

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the municipal incorporation activity in the United States over the last several decades and the geographic consequences of the incorporation of new cities.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region.

This edited volume sheds new light on the impact of rapid Land Use/Cover Changes (LU/CC) on greenhouse gases (GHG's) and aerosol emissions in South and Southeast Asia.

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration.

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries.

Songs from Sweden shows how Swedish songwriters and producers are the creative forces behind much of today's international pop music.

This book provides empirically driven discussions and investigations in the relevance of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and its theoretical concepts.

This book provides an overview of the ecological indicators of landscape dynamics in the context of geographical landscape integration.

The book studies the "e;Manchurian immigrants"e; from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women's issues.

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages.

This book describes the health status of internal migrants in China and explores a number of related factors, which include their physical health, mental health, fertility, social integration, the current state of basic public health services in China and so on.

This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent factors in migration.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Developments (ICRACEID 2019).

This book examines the manufacturing, supply chain and product-level sustainability of leather and footwear products.

This book situates Taiwan's indigenous knowledge in comparative contexts across other indigenous knowledge formations.

Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies.

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century.