Regional geography

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

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

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

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially 'fuzzy' in their nature.

Presenting an updated overview of transformational entrepreneurship, this book explores how critical concepts can be contextualised for different regions and countries, underlining the fact that no one system fits all.

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

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India.

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of `the nation'.

South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics.

Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres.

This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions.

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics.

This book provides a new and different perspective on human geography as an umbrella understanding of the social science of disaster management, but it is simple to understand, where disaster-affected communities anywhere, for example in this study in disaster communities in Malacca-Timor, eastern Indonesia (female/customary land) can respond to flood disasters with the resilience capacity they have day after day.

This book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern Patagonia.

Real estate development shapes the way people live and work, playing a crucial role in determining our built environment.

The European Mosaic is an up-to-date introduction to all aspects of the politics, economics, culture and recent history of the European Union in particular and Europe in general.

This book is a practitioner's guide to sustainable development, laying out strategies for attracting investment for communities and their partners.

Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union.

This book gathers the proceedings of the INPUT2023 Conference on 'Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning.

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror.

Widely respected as an authoritative and accessible reference work.

Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today.

This book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions.

Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development.

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

This book provides an institutional interpretation of state-facilitated gentrification in Chengdu, an emerging central city of China.

Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African Continent, but frustrated by the slow pace of large scale change, this book is focused on filling the knowledge gap for those tackling Africa's serious social problems.

This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity.

Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects.

This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city.

This book critically and succinctly examines recent changes in land ownership, mobility and livelihoods in various Pacific island states, from East Timor to the Solomon Islands, where climate change, environmental change (including hazards of various origins), population growth and urbanization have contributed to new tensions and discords and resulted in complex structures of migration and resettlement.

This book is a first in its own way.

Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow.

Contemporary processes of economic, social, political and cultural restructuring are having profound impacts on the form and function of rural areas within the countries of the European Union and beyond.

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

This book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989.

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.

The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics.

Originally published in 1974 Sociology and Development are a selection papers from the British Sociological Association's conference on development.

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

This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches.

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Nigeria.

Japan - faszinierend in seinen Widersprüchen, mit einzigartigen Traditionen und zugleich ungebrochenem Glauben an den technischen Fortschritt, mit tiefer Liebe zur Natur trotz schier uferloser Metropolen zwischen Gebirge und Meer.

Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt wird in der Regel mit Metropolen assoziiert und in der Wissenschaft primär als Phänomen großstädtischen Lebens reflektiert.

China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue.

The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies.