Human geography

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts.

This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health.

This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal.

This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

This edited collection includes (but is not limited to) contributions in the form of chapters from the participants of the Workshop on the Macroeconomics of Migration at the University of Sheffield in June 2018.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland.

We are living at the dawn of what has been termed 'the fourth paradigm of science,' a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

This book focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book compiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada.

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

This book examines the geography of partisan polarization, or the Reds and Blues, of the political landscape in the United States.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it.

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Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire.

In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies.

This book discusses motherhood of Nigerian and Romanian women in Italy and Romania, who are human trafficking victims for sexual purposes.

The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena.

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

This book is about the impact of austerity in and on everyday life, based on a two-year ethnography with families and communities in 'Argleton', Greater Manchester, UK.

The chapter entitled "e;Truth or Dare; Women, Politics, and the Symphysiotomy Scandal"e;, by Oonagh Walsh, was published in this book "e;GeoHumanities and Health"e; by Springer Nature AG.

This book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges.

This book focuses on the intersection of place and overall community health thereby focusing on some of the most critical contemporary social problems, including the opioid crisis, suicide, socioeconomic status and ethnicity, mental illness, crime, homelessness, green criminology, and social and environmental justice.

This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas.

This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe.

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of the changes that have been taking place in the Himalayas.

This book presents new research on policy innovations that promote the development of the circular water economy.

This book introduces environmental participation as a distinct field comprising diverse practices.

This volume examines Canada's migration policy as part of its foreign policy.

This book examines the experiences of seasonal, migrant sugarcane workers in Brazil, analyzing the deep-seated inequalities pervasive in contemporary Brazil.

This book develops a new concept of post-refugee transnationalism to describe experiences of Bosnian refugees who settled in Ireland after fleeing the conflict in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This is the first volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science.

This book builds on the highly successful Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Society (2014) and investigates the geography of beer from two expanded perspectives: culture and economics.

The first anthropological account of the Irish diaspora in Europe in the 21st century, this book provides a culture-centric examination of the Irish diaspora.

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century.

This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its approach to environmentally displaced persons.

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union's legal framework on migration.

This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty.

This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, definition, causes, effects, impacts and implications of climate change on young people globally, with a focus on Small Island Communities (SIDS) in particular.

This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world.