Human geography

This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means.

This volume presents the innovative methodologies, tools and techniques, as well as the challenges and ethical complexities of doing geographies of young people.

This volume has been compiled with great assistance from the Report on the Settlement of the Sadar subdivision of the Puri district, by Mr.

This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning.

This monograph discusses the dispute in geographical naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, which has been a long-lasting issue in East Asia and beyond.

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.

Dieses Buch bewertet systematisch die politischen und sozialen Werte der mehr als 1,3 Milliarden Katholiken auf der ganzen Welt, der bei weitem größten Konfession des westlichen Christentums.

This volume demonstrates the multiple ways that space, place and environment interact with children and young people's lives.

Geotourism is a new, emerging scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth science in the study of natural and human tourism resources.

This book provides extensive information on craftsmen-built houses in China.

This book focuses on urban morphology and its application to urban conservation and management.

This book introduces the issues of the contemporary state of Bihar, India, in terms of its performance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators and the initiatives taken by the central and state governments towards realizing human development.

This book evaluates African Special Economic Zones from the perspective of learning from China's experiences with such Zones and the impact of Chinese policy and investment on African Zones.

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

This book focuses on the resistance practices digitally enacted by a group of refugees in the context of the Australian detention policy.

This book offers a comprehensive depiction of the causes and consequences of the Rohingya crisis, based on detailed ethnographic narratives provided by hundreds of Rohingya people who crossed the border following the Clearance Operation in 2017.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book presents the spatio-temporal and gender appraisal human development index (HDI) of all the 237 Panchayat Samitis of Rajasthan.

This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the energy policies in the European Union and Japan in terms of electricity markets and climate action, including energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, and the reduction of emissions.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

This book, bringing together a multi-voiced dialogue between academic scholars and professionals from diverse fields, shares a comprehensive and heterogeneous look at the interdisciplinarity of Galician Studies while examining  a chronologically broad range of subjects from the 1800s to the present.

This  book looks at the background to the policy of free movement in Europe and discusses the consequences.

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field.

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This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional economic development.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of issues related to climate change in the Pacific and will be an invaluable reference for those working in this important field.

Der vorliegende Sammelband leistet einen Beitrag zur Konturierung des Konzepts sozialer Innovationen.

This book offers a critical analysis of the diverse knowledge and knowledge production  processes  through  which 'alternative  agro-food networks'  can constitute a more plural 'knowledge economy'.

This book explores, situates, and discusses the contours of urban inclusivity amidst and beyond the well-researched neoliberal turn in urban governance.

This book deals in different ways with the politics of death, with art and politics and with the politics of refuge and asylum.

This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants' agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether "e;migration crisis"e; is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region.

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics.

This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age.

This book features a collection of novel and original contributions to the study of urban sustainability from a human health perspective in the light of the current corona pandemic and the challenge of cities to offer inclusive, appealing, and healthy infrastructures.

This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings.

This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead.

This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements.

This book presents and critically evaluates the results of a European territorial cooperation project addressing the planning challenge of brownfield transformation in fragile territories.

This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author's journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements.

This book seeks to better understand the meaning and implications of the UKs calamitous encounter with the COVID-19 global pandemic for the future of British neoliberalism.

Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction provides students with an accessible overview of the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies.