Regional geography

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.

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience.

This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of ?

Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

It is now accepted that the world's climate has warmed by about 0.

'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.

Looking at two contrasting border regions, one in western Hungary, one in the east of the country, this volume is the first to combine an examination of border related issues with gender and economic development.

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

This is a book about how to manage the processes involved in a construction project towards a sustainable and regenerative endproduct.

In the context of the debate on the future of Europe, this book makes the case for a new approach to structural transformation, growth and cohesion in the EU.

Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage.

Over the last 25 years, the "e;Africa Rising"e; discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals.

This book explores the multiple histories of critical geography as it developed in 14 different locations around the globe, whilst bringing together a range of approaches in critical geography.

»Fränkische Schweiz« ist ein künstlicher, werbender Begriff für eine Region, die seit der Zeit der Romantik diesen Namen trägt.

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

Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development.

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.

This title was first published in 2001.

Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development provides scholarly and practical knowledge on a range of issues often associated with local food system development.

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

This book offers a comprehensive overview of several urban related aspects that are of central importance to successful territorial cohesion processes.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change.

This book is on Iran's geopolitical importance representing a continuum of international competition for political gains and economic benefit, due to the country's unique geographical location that has always been a cause of contention.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of core themes and concepts in community-based tourism management.

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

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.

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

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing 'bottom up' community initiatives successfully.

This book delves into the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe to provide insight into how it facilitated the delivery of housing for low-income urban households.

Faced with the growing demand for nature in cities, informal greenspaces are gaining the interest of various stakeholders - residents, associations, public authorities - as well as scientists.

Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states.

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture.

International scholarship is increasingly aware that the 'geographical tradition' is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions.

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Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has recently dominated geographic writing.

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

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves.

This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe.

This book introduces the fundamentals of research methods and how they apply to the discipline of urban and regional planning.

For nearly one hundred and forty 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.

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s.

Regional policy is an essential in any government's toolkit for promoting socioeconomic prosperity.

Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and is often narrated through the endeavour to 'sanitize' it by both the English and the French in their policy and media discourses.

This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land.

This title was first published in 2003.