Regional geography

This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research.

This title was first published in 2000.

The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s).

This book describes cases and experiences in connection with environmental and cultural ecosystem services in Argentina.

The book addresses the situation of the urban world in Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century.

For the last 136 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.

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.

The twenty-first century will be the age of global interaction and organized patterns of networks.

Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends to become a successful developing region.

This book explores the place of nationalism in the modern world.

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border.

This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy.

Due to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries.

Originally published in 1978.

This book discusses policy instruments for sustainable infrastructure developments.

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.

Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development.

Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries.

First published in 1998, the objective of this book is to provide a detailed examination of steel production, consumption and trade in East Asia.

First published in 1999, this volume begins with a panoramic survey by Nigel Harris of the drama of Asian Urbanization, based on the inaugural plenary lecture he gave to the 5th Asian Urbanization Conference held in London.

In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt.

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development.

The Northern peripheries of Europe, which are covered by this book, are associated with remoteness, the frontier, isolated communities, colonialism and resource extraction.

In this comprehensive study, problems of racial and religious division are examines in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and the West Bank.

Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member States.

The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa's development agenda.

Views on spatial planning and its role have changed significantly over the past few years and the issues it deals with have become increasingly more complex.

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.

This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin - specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments - and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period.

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia - a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters.

The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected.

Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North.

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

This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration that occurred in Iran before and in the years after the Khomeinist Revolution, as well as being an analysis of the impact that Italian restoration culture has had in the country.

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

This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.

Food security is high on the political agenda.

This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan's award-winning "e;Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization.

Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward.

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'.

Fremde Kulturen sind uns oft doch nicht so vertraut, wie wir dachten.

Despite the non-territorialised strategic goals of the EU 2020 Strategy, the long-term aim of EU Cohesion Policy to promote harmonious development of the European territory - social, economic, and 'territorial cohesion' - remains a central goal of achieving a more cohesive EU territory.

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

Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this area.

"e;Human security"e; is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security.