Regional geography

This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94.

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

This book represents a pioneering effort, offering a comprehensive summary of the Geoheritage of the Southwestern Pacific (SW Pacific).

From votes to strikes to street violence, politics is intrinsically geographical.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of 'post-politics' has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance.

This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own country as a land of nomads.

Originally published in 1990, this book reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing not just in the African urban settlements that have sprung up but in government-sponsored low-cost housing estates.

Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations.

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

This book introduces the readers to possible aspects of the rainwater harvesting system against urbanization to plan, design, and implement.

Originally published in 1986, Coping with Hunger demonstrates that effective agricultural development in resource-poor regions must be based in a respect for the indigenous farmer's understanding of the environment.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization.

This book describes an archaeological investigation of human occupation in the northern area of the Patagonian archipelago in the far south of South America.

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

This book contributes to our understanding of linkages between carbon management and local livelihoods by taking stock of the existing evidence and drawing on field experiences in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, an area that provides fresh water to more than 2 billion people and supports the world's largest population of pastoralists and millions of livestock.

The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive.

This book discusses management and governance initiatives undertaken by agencies and stakeholders towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) in the Southeast Asian region, specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research.

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation.

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese "e;closed-door"e; policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity.

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s collapse of the party system.

Our understanding of climate and its role in human affairs has changed markedly over recent years, as have climate observation systems and modelling capabilities.

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to Latin America.

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

Presenting recent research on the international integration of infrastructures in Europe, this book combines general and methodological chapters and examples from different a variety of sectors such as transport, electricity and communication networks.

This book introduces a planning support system called Strategic Spatial Plan Support System (SSP-SS) to visualize population growth and predict energy demand, land use, and waste discharge resulting from urbanization.

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

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies.

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

Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade.

Originally published in 1970.

Originally published in 1977.

The collection of reliable and comprehensive data on the magnitude, composition and distribution of a country's population is essential in order for governments to provide services, administer effectively and guide a country's development.

First published in 1999.

The last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues.

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations.

The definitions for 'marginality' and 'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic disciplines.

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.

The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer.

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy.

Food tourism is a topic of increasing importance for many destinations.

The End of the Developmental State?

The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century.

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation.

The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the study of religion.

First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions.

Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is a critical problem on the international development agenda.