Regional geography

Based on substantial ethnographic, textual and archival research, this interesting book offers a new perspective on the anthropology of the western Indian Ocean.

This book argues that the new great power contest between the United States and the People's Republic of China, which has as its epicentre the complex Indo-Pacific region, is having a detrimental impact on the region's existing order system.

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South.

This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil.

This book examines innovation as social change in South Asia.

More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War.

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing countries embarking on the path of democracy and economic development.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

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

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary issues of regional development.

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography.

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990.

The objective of Arab Criminology is to establish a criminological subfield called 'Arab Criminology.

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities.

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.

This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe.

Pastoralism as a land use system is under recognized in terms of its contribution to food provision, livelihoods as well as to human security.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character.

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

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

The decline of the Mughal Empire, the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Marathas, the Rohillas, etc.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe.

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history.

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

This book examines innovation as social change in South Asia.

Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true.

Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice.

This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature.

This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects.

This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesis, pollution and management.

First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country.

This new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia.

This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in bridging societal differences to create a shared economy.

The first volume to explore Muslim piety as a form of economy, this book examines specific forms of production, trade, regulation, consumption, entrepreneurship and science that condition - and are themselves conditioned by - Islamic values, logics and politics.

The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for individual and collective identities.

This book will provide readers with an understanding of the employability concept and develop an employability skills improvement model to enhance the employability of built environment graduates to foster economic development.

The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China, particularly because of the large number of people to be resettled (officially 1.

This groundbreaking book delves deep into the history of AI, the major techniques and algorithms of machine learning and deep learning, and the critical role of data sources and processing in these disciplines.

This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot.

In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent's history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike.

There has long been considerable debate about the nature of non-Western IR theory.

This book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and locates India and its interests within the overarching geostrategic framework.

As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.

This book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology.

Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia.

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.