Regional geography

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes.

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination.

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora.

Since publication in 1957 the importance of Bohannan's study of judicial institutions and procedures among the Tiv has been widely recognized.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the tourism market development in Central and Eastern European countries.

This book analyzes India's impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the 'silent emergency' of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths.

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice.

This book unpacks the links between oil energy, state power, urban space and culture, by looking at the Petro-Socialist Venezuelan oil state.

This book presents a review of the work of the architect Michael Balz, pioneer of concrete-shell architecture.

This focused study is one of the few analytical resources in English that covers the ancient and early medieval history of one of the least studied areas of the vast mountainous Pamir region of Central Asia: Shughnan.

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ('normal' vs.

As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted.

While decisions for working overseas are often based on expectations and promises of better jobs, opportunities, economic gains and, eventually, a better future, such assumptions may not always be realized.

Originally published in 1979.

Examining local content law and policy in the oil and gas industry, this book uses Nigeria as a primary case study, comparing its approach to countries such as Brazil and Norway which have also adopted local content laws in relation to their gas and oil industries.

The definitions for 'marginality' and 'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic disciplines.

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.

This book describes an archaeological investigation of human occupation in the northern area of the Patagonian archipelago in the far south of South America.

Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of economic growth is critical for promoting development in less developed countries, including India.

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas.

This book introduces the fundamentals of research methods and how they apply to the discipline of urban and regional planning.

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious.

The control of multinational corporations is an area of law that has attracted immense attention both at national and international level.

Stephen Phillips has devoted his career to excavating some of the most valuable gems of Indian philosophy and bringing them into conversation with contemporary thought.

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change.

The current anti-cancer synthetic medicines are deemed inefficient and unsafe, state the editors of this new book.

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist.

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cultures in the region.

This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the tenth c.

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of poverty and interprets it across a range of policy reforms and project interventions in different geographical settings.

This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored.

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

This multidisciplinary book develops a synthesis of traditional ecological knowledge in the Caucasus region in Georgia - a hotspot of natural and cultural diversity.

The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside.

This book discusses the importance of socio-spatial patterns in cities that are embedded in the cultural heritage and self-understanding of a society, showing that Indian cities follow different urban concepts.

Swedish society has recurrently shown a keen geographical sense, meticulously documenting all matters relating to environments, resources and human activities through space and time from the sixteenth century on.

From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy.

This book discusses the issue of riverbank erosion and its associated causes, risks and social challenges in the Bengal Delta.

The term 'Swahili' describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia examines the complex mosaic of physical environments which comprise Southeast Asia, and the current environmental problems and management practices which have arisen in this part of the world.

This volume is the result of a group of researchers applying their insights and experience to a common theme.

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

This title was first published in 2003.

This book introduces a planning support system called Strategic Spatial Plan Support System (SSP-SS) to visualize population growth and predict energy demand, land use, and waste discharge resulting from urbanization.

This book outlines evidence-based and data-driven strategies for combating grand corruption in Africa.

This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon.

This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore's creative art, social commitment, literary and artistic representation and his unique legacy in the cultural history of modern India - as a blend of the quintessentially Indian and the liberal universalist.

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam.

Sustainable Intensification (SI) has recently emerged as a key concept for agricultural development, recognising that yields must increase to feed a growing world population, but it must be achieved without damage to the environment, on finite land resources and while preserving social and natural capital.

This book explores the nature of the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, and who is often characterized as "e;the last dictator in Europe"e;.