Regional geography

This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of transport efficiency in China.

The use of legislation by EU governments to define environmental standards for industry has been criticised for its poor track record in arresting the decline in the quality of Europe's environment.

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe.

As the new Russian state struggles with the transition to a market economy, the need for radical monetary reform becomes increasingly urgent.

This book offers a unique and highly illustrated overview of the desert geomorphology of Iran.

Nobody denies that trust in schools is key to success in generating any educational outcomes.

The integration of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe into the EU is one of the success stories of European development.

What role does the state have over national development within an increasingly globalized economy?

The present volume curates papers presented at an international conference organized at OUCIP to engage with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge embracing Social Sciences, Humanities and, Physical Sciences to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines.

Since 2007, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in Pakistani politics through its hyper-active use of judicial review, or the power to overrule Parliament's laws and the Prime Minister's acts.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

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

Disrupting Mainstream Journalism in India offers a comprehensive and empirically-grounded analysis of the production of digital journalism by marginalized groups within Indian society.

Migration from Central Asia analyzes migration from Turkestan to Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the United States and the identity formation of these people living in different countries.

The ten chapters collected in this book manifest the current global interest in trans-border dialogues and trace the origins and development of Italian and Bengali internationalisms in the period from the mid-19th to the early 20th century.

How can school leaders foster more effective teamwork and collaboration among teachers to improve instruction and culture?

Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses.

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development.

This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques.

There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse.

This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective.

Terms such as "e;Third World"e;, "e;developing countries"e; and "e;Global South"e; are ubiquitous in the discipline of development studies, but they are often poorly defined, ideologically weighted and misleading.

There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations.

This book assesses the drivers and impacts of new international residential mobilities by considering a range of mobilities in different countries across the globe from investment, amenity and retirement mobilities to those of the new global middle class and the transnational elites.

Heritage in Eight Acts brings together contributions on cultural heritage at an international level with an emphasis on Latin American and Ibero-American studies, addressing points of convergence between the local and the global in an accessible and direct way.

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.

Due to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries.

The book is dedicated to the Ionian Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change, and looks at how this affected the growth of towns and cities of nineteenth century France.

First Published in 1966 Four Aspects of Egypt provides a picturesque tour of Egypt for visitors and new arrivals in the country.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy.

This book provides the first in-depth, multidisciplinary study of re-urbanization in Russia's Arctic regions, with a specific focus on new mobility patterns, and the resulting birth of new urban Arctic identities in which newcomers and labor migrants form a rising part of.

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule.

The share of global CO2 emissions from the core Northeast Asian (NEA) countries in 2015 was estimated to be as high as 33.

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1970 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of urban planning, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries.

The electoral process has been an integral part of the political landscape of independent Africa for more than a quarter-century and has roots going back to traditional African societies.

If civil society is being encouraged to more fully embrace inclusiveness and respect for diversity, then so must the multiplicity of service support organizations with which it interacts.

This book analyzes China's climate and environmental change facts, impacts and vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.

Governance and Environment in Western Europe: Politics, Policy and Administration, provides an up-to-date overview of developments in this area focusing on a selection of ten countries in Western Europe and the European Union.

Children and Knowledge sheds light on what it is to be a child in India in the contemporary moment and in history.

This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia.

This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India.

This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism.

During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape.