Regional geography

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

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

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography.

Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality.

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.

Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways-for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of captives and through the avoidance strategies that vulnerable communities used against slaving.

This book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powers-the US, China, Japan, and France.

The essays in this collection show how electoral geography has shifted from empiricist activity towards a closer involvement with the wider issues addressed by social scientists.

Since the issues and discourses surrounding sustainable development entered its phase in our contemporary world, the political, social, economic, ecological, and cultural existence of our modern world has inevitably adopted varied measures to respond better to the demands of our time.

The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics.

South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India's complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours.

This book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective.

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

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development.

The volume covers issues related to poverty, inequality, inclusiveness development, role of institutions, and socio-political perspectives on development in India with a special focus on North-East India.

The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.

The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India.

This book discusses policy instruments for sustainable infrastructure developments.

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe's large cities.

Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people.

This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits.

This book discusses the history and contemporary practice of studying cultures 'at home', by examining Europe's regional or 'small' ethnologies of the past, present and future.

In the examination of gender as a driving force in disasters, too little attention has been paid to how women's or men's disaster experiences relate to the wider context of gender inequality, or how gender-just practice can help prevent disasters or address climate change at a structural level.

This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners.

This book describes the progress and prominent theories of regional development research in the past decades, especially in the past decade, discusses the industrial structure, spatial structure, resources, and environment, as well as a series of practical issues, and reveals the general characteristics of spatial structure evolution in the process of regional development.

Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers' sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main - Vienna - Moscow - Prague - Budapest - Berlin.

Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples.

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia.

The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain.

This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.

Invisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK.

The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India.

Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself.

The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar's path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy.

Originally published in 1995.

First published in 1965, this reissue is a report on the Second Rehovoth Conference of August 1963, convened by the then Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Mr Abba Eban, in order to enable the scientists and political leaders of developing countries to establish meaningful communication on the overall topic of comprehensive planning of agriculture in developing countries.

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

This book systematically analyses state responses towards Maoism in India and studies the role of state policies in prolonging conflict.

The story of the Santee is, in fact, the story of a major part of the Carolinas east of the Appalachians, for the river drains an immense area of both states from the mountains to the ocean.

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

India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence.

This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island's two distinct political units.

This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors.

This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa.

Contributing to our understanding of the impact of the 2015 migrant "e;crisis"e; on the future of EU integration, this book views the "e;crisis"e; as an accelerant to existing problems, namely Brexit, the growing popularity of anti-immigrant far right parties and the rise of xenophobic and antiliberal governments from the Baltics to the Balkans.