Human geography

This book is an exploration of the relationship between irregular migrants, many originating from southern Philippines and the sea, in their struggle against the realities of state power in Sabah.

This book provides comparative, multi-disciplinary research on the surplus food distribution in Europe and its relation to food poverty, with a focus on the interaction of for-profit and non-profit organisations.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book seeks to re-envision the purpose and pedagogy of sexuality education, disrupting its conventional instrumental and health related aims.

This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development.

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.

This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade.

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship.

This book describes how powerful computing technology, emerging big and open data sources, and theoretical perspectives on spatial synthesis have revolutionized the way in which we investigate social sciences and humanities.

The study is aimed at reconstructing the historical process at the base of any significant theatre architecture.

This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research.

This book takes a critical look at the role of language in an increasingly diversified and globalised world, using the new framework of 'sociolinguistics of globalisation' to draw together research from human geography, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication.

This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution.

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Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives-cinematic, photographic, and literary-produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind.

This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustain it.

This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events.

The book addresses the issue of disease diffusion across the geographical span of India during the colonial period.

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the role of local governments around the world in the management of the migration, integration and development nexus.

This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007.

This book explores how Pacific Island communities are responding to the challenges wrought by climate change-most notably fresh water accessibility, the growing threat of disease, and crop failure.

When we talk about clusters, it's the fabulous destiny of Silicon Valley that first comes to mind - the place where entrepreneurs and policymakers alike flock.

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning?

This textbook examines strategies of investing in human health and investing in economic growth as distinct approaches to development.

Drawing from military geography's spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia.

This book argues that COVID-19 revives a much deeper climate of terror which was instilled by terrorism and the War on Terror originally declared by Bush's administration in 2001.

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting-Mannheim, Germany.

This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany.

Près de 30 ans de périurbanisation ont fait émerger, en France comme ailleurs, de vastes régions urbaines, parmi lesquelles la région urbaine de Lyon-St Etienne.

This book studies the relationship between pukaras and their surrounding landscape, focusing on the architectural and settlement variability registered in both contexts.

The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands' adaptive capacity to climate change.

This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India.

 Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples' lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm's innovation and performance.

This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood.

This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries.

This book is the second Volume of the INPUT2020 Conference Proceedings on 'Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning'.

Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities.

This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand.

The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "e;petroleum economy.

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.