Regional geography

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM.

The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind.

This book addresses the highly differentiated spatial, social, cultural and demographic structure(s) of Germany, with a particular focus on the reciprocal relations between different levels of spatial development.

For the last 138 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China's manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective.

This book presents the outcome of the Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (SLUAS) project, which was the pilot undertaking for development in a series of projects on land use.

This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens.

We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change.

This title was first published in 2003.

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

Originally published in 1982, written at a time when Scotland was emerging from a recession, it offered a comprehensive appraisal of the Scottish economy.

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps.

The aims of this book are: systematization and theorization of these projects; clarify and deepen the social and territorial effects of these initiatives; in-depth study of the causes that lead to the generation of successful projects in rural development; and abound in the reasons that lead specific projects to be failed in the access to LEADER support and be finally not implemented.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa's diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space.

Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels.

Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be either possessed or endowed, and demonstrates it is an emergent condition that has temporal and spatial dimensions.

In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity.

This title was first published in 2003.

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood.

This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country.

This book explores the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism as well being concerned with a collective analytic that addresses these processes through the lens of disassembling and reassembling dynamics.

Originally published in 1990 and unique in terms of diversity and extent, this book covers a wide geographical area, including Jamaica, Tunisia, Malaysia, India, Mauritius, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus and Panama.

This book focuses on the background, migration, and settlement of new migrants in China.

Originally published in 1957.

The book draws upon the expertise and international research collaborations forged by the Worldwide Universities Network Global Africa Group to critically engage with the intersection, in theory and practice, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa's development agendas and needs.

The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil.

This title was first published in 2003.

Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.

The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce.

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for urgent action is compelling.

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

Policing reveals much about rural society.

Bringing together a wide range of studies from twelve European countries, this book offers a state-of-the-art overview of the driving forces behind spatial diversity and social complexity inherent in second home expansion in all parts of the continent - from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the British Isles to Russia - in the context of contemporary mobility patterns largely induced by tourism.

Originally published in 1979, this volume begins with an historical summary of housing development in Scotland.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor ) of 1845-1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nalkavuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932/1933.

The issues surrounding the provision, preparation and development of food products is fundamental to every human being on the planet.

Policing reveals much about rural society.

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why people take collective action and engage in social development projects.

Focussing particularly on urban fringe and rural areas, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline.

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Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems.

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity.

September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of a new era of security imperatives for many countries.

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental scientific insights into the geographical features of a country which was and still is in the centre of the geopolitical battle of the large world powers and especially neighboring countries.

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