Regional geography

This title was first published in 2001: Despite the fact that environmental directives are one of the strongest areas of policy decreed by the EU, it has a much poorer record when it comes to actual implementation of these policies.

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

Climate change poses multiple challenges to development.

This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies.

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

This book is a first in its own way.

This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean.

Aquesta publicació es fonamenta en l'anàlisi dels components i activitats del sistema territorial de la província de Valencia, susceptibles de consolidar-la i impulsar-la socioeconòmicament, garantint la qualitat de vida deis seus habitants.

This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries.

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

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

Originally published in 1961, this book was the first comprehensive work on South African geography that also presented a balanced account of all facets of the economic life.

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

In the early 1990s, borders within Europe and between the United States and Mexico began to open.

Originally published in 1991, this book focusses on the philosophies, histories and processes which have made the West European city system rich in internal variety yet distinct from that of the rest of western industrialised urban society.

This book aims at integrating archaeology with science in order to provide additional information with respect to a traditional archaeological anthropological perspective.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book provides an integrated view of each of the four provinces of Pakistan, considered the four micro regions, owing to their relative internal homogeneity and distinctiveness from the adjacent regions.

Este libro tiene como objetivo contribuir al estudio sobre los efectos socio-espaciales de la crisis y, en particular, a los estudios relativos a un «urbanismo de la austeridad» y a un urbanismo desterritorializado en las grandes ciudades españolas, teniendo en perspectiva otros espacios urbanos de países del norte del Mediterráneo.

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years.

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

This second edition of "e;Sustainable Mountain Development"e; is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching in recent years, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood.

Middle East and North Africa brings together some of today's most influential analysts of a region which from colonial times to the present has seen great territorial change.

This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War.

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions.

This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective.

The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularly in the regional and environmental policy areas.

Economic geographers increasingly consider the significance of history in shaping the contemporary socio-economic landscape, and increasingly believe that experiences and competencies, acquired over time by individuals and entities in particular localities, to a large degree determine present configurations as well as future regional trajectories.

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability.

This title was first published in 2001: Bringing together geographers, planners, political scientists, economists, rural development specialists, bankers, public administrators and other development experts, this volume questions the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs).

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors.

This second edition studies the economic reasons for the existence of a variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local.

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the "e;Horizontal Metropolis"e; concept.

The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements.

In this comprehensive study, problems of racial and religious division are examines in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and the West Bank.

Despite Africa's vast and diverse natural resources, the developmental challenges plaguing the continent still remain.

This book provides the first in-depth, multidisciplinary study of re-urbanization in Russia's Arctic regions, with a specific focus on new mobility patterns, and the resulting birth of new urban Arctic identities in which newcomers and labor migrants form a rising part of.

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.

Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade.

Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed adults.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

In the wake of globalization, numerous social scientists are turning to concepts of mobility, fluidity and hybridity to characterize a presumed de-territorialization and de-bordering of contemporary social and economic relations.

Using the theoretical framework of new economic geography and the research methods of GIS and econometrics, this book analyzes the impact of high-speed railway development on China's economic distribution, population mobility and regional integration.

There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues.

This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches.

This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route.