Regional geography

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis.

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

Canadian Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography is a compendium of published works on geographical studies of Canada and its various provinces.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

“A commanding and inspiring biography of a river that gave rise to an art movement, progressive social quests, [and] landmark environmental cases.

In a never-ending battle to match population growth with food and energy production, the countries of the Middle East have been frenziedly developing water resources, including international rivers and groundwate, without considering their neighbors' needs.

The book summarizes the latest research achievements of the "e;CAS Earth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles"e; project in actively responding to the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them.

Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies.

Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them.

Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west.

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the impact of globalization on port evolution within the different regions of Africa.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book is the latest and most comprehensive reference to the regional geography of Spain, taking into account emergent issues such as biodiversity, climate change and nationalism.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of several urban related aspects that are of central importance to successful territorial cohesion processes.

This book provides an overview of innovative and new directions being chartered in South African tourism geographies.

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

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 presents recent innovative trends in land, water and energy management in Vietnam.

This book presents the characteristics and limitations of geological units, Cenozoic and geochronological concepts.

This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin - specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments - and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period.

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2015.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive report on the soils of Wisconsin, a state that offers a rich tapestry of soils.

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape.

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications.

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.

This book describes the geography of Uzbekistan and its unique history and culture.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

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

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.

This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world.

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

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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 explains how learning from past mistakes in urban design can help to enhance sustainable cities and how the principles of Green Urbanism can yield more resilient urban settlements.

This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment of Hungary.

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

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.

This book underpins the geography of the Black Sea, covering topics such as morphology, morphography, geology, and history of the Black Sea.

Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India.

This book explores and analyses women's participation in local urban governance in West Bengal, India.

This book presents and discusses methodological approaches and operational tools aimed at increasing the awareness and skills necessary to face the social, economic and environmental challenges usually encountered in spatial planning.

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or more distant settings.