Regional geography

Whilst there is an extensive body of research exploring the barriers to gender equality and female empowerment in high-income states, there are far fewer systematic analyses within lower-income settings.

This book examines the position held by most development administrators that citizen participation in the planning and management of development projects is crucial to their lasting success.

This book explores the phenomena of both Political Catholicism and the growth of Euroscepticism across Eastern and Western Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

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.

This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment of Hungary.

The fifth Millennium Development target of reducing infant mortality by two thirds by the year 2015 can only be achieved if mortality due to malaria is significantly reduced.

This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective.

This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict.

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

This short book examines the availability and adoption of new education technologies in higher education institutions in India.

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated, and for closer links between the university and the region.

The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography.

This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia.

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves.

Originally published in 1977.

The book studies the "e;Manchurian immigrants"e; from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women's issues.

By examining a range of experiences from both the north and south of Ireland, this book asks what the ideal of sustainable development might mean to specific rural groups and how sustainable development goals have been pursued across the policy spectrum.

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy.

This book examines Gandhi's idea of swaraj as an alternative to the modern concept of political authority.

This book examines the medical biotechnology industry in India through the lens of a critical political economy.

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong 'colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence.

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.

South-South Development examines the historical background for the current situation: why it suddenly took off again approximately a decade ago; the various vectors of engagement and how they are interrelated; the actors involved; how the revitalisation of South-South development has affected development cooperation 'as it was'; and finally, how it affects the rest of the Global South.

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

This book throws new light on the study of India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process.

This book critically explores the political ecology of human marginalization, wildlife conservation and the role of the state in politicizing conservation frameworks, drawing on examples from forests in India.

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers.

South Asians comprise over 15 per cent of all international migrating population, among the highest in the world.

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and very detailed insight into Chinese Contemporary Geography in English.

Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region.

Focusing on everyday experiences of sexuality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, this book considers personal narratives and other queer artefacts to shed light on linguistic and performative strategies of resistance, referred to as queer word- and world-making.

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey.

The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman).

This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor ) of 1845-1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nalkavuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932/1933.

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof.

Originally published in 2004.

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism development.

Throughout the tropical world, especially in South and Southeast Asia, tropical America, Africa and Oceania, there exists a range of forest garden farming systems.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

This book examines regional economic integration in West Africa within the context of the institutional evolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute.