Regional geography

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.

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.

For the last 134 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.

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures.

This book analyses the political transition in West Bengal, India, which witnessed longest democratically elected Left regime of the world.

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

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community.

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities.

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis.

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level.

Despite attempts to redress the balance, international relations (IR) as a discipline is still dominated by Western theories.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management, environmental economics, production economics and sustainable agricultural development.

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon, including in India.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs).

Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest.

This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa.

The Angolan War of 1975-1976 focused international attention on an area -long relegated to the sidelines of world diplomacy and accented the historical momentum toward black control of southern African states.

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls.

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas.

India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives.

Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management.

The Arctic has become a global arena.

What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces?

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or more distant settings.

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'.

Megacities are a new phenomenon in history.

Drought has been a long companion in the human story.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book critically examines the questions related to the access to and financing of higher education in India.

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities.

This book offers an overview of digital, IoT and intelligent technologies, applications and solutions that are contributing to shape the digital, inclusive, and sustainable transformation of contemporary cities.

This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics.

An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "e;last frontier,"e; a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination.

A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia.

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia.

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

NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand critically examines the relationships of civil society to nongovernmental organisations in Thailand, and examines the 'NGOisation' of civil society, how NGOs are funded and governed, and in what way the NGOs has been shaped to work with the funder.