Regional geography

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

Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the 'market' economies of the region usually defined by membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

To understand fully the process of European integration, it is necessary to consider developments at the sub-national and local level.

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

The question of money, how to provide it, and how to acquire it where needed is axiomatic to development.

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA.

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

This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research.

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.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

Originally published in 1980, this book was written by consultants in urban development with wide experience in the developing world and is a source book aimed at advisers (often from developed countries) who assist with urban planning matters on behalf of multi-lateral agencies such as the World Bank.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

As one of the world's largest and most bio-diverse countries, India's approach to environmental policy will be very significant in tackling global environmental challenges.

'Borders' have attracted considerable attention in public and academic debates in light of the impact of globalisation and, in Europe, the end of the divisions of the Cold War era.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.

Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa.

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay).

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.

This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the world's largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops.

Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

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

The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe.

Rising Powers and State Transformation advances the concept of 'state transformation' as a useful lens through which to examine rising power states' foreign policymaking and implementation, with chapters dedicated to China, Russia, India, Brazil, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

This book examines Tokyo's changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city.

This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.

'Hurry' is an intrinsic component of modernity.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

This book explores the interplay and dialogue between faith communities and the humanitarian-development community.

By critically appraising current theories of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and agglomeration, this book explores the variety of links that exist between these two externality-creating phenomena.

This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment.

This book explores the spatial and contextual factors behind citizens' anger, frustration, and sense of abandonment, alongside the role of digital platforms in politically marginalized areas.

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

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

This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities.

The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods.

This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece.

This book provides geographical perspectives on the complex and multifaceted relationship between people and their lived environments.

A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery.

This book provides insights on new geological, tectonic, and climatic developments in India through a time progression from the Archean to the Anthropocene that are captured via authoritative entries from experts in earth sciences.

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Originally published in 1978.

The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of life on Earth.

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable territorial development of the Arctic, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Arctic Territorial Development: Challenges & Solutions (ARCTD), held in St.

Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles.