Regional geography

Latinos have emerged as one of the fastest-growing ethnic populations in the American South.

Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country.

The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind.

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into its own.

The interrelations between accounting and food have been hitherto neglected at an international level.

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South.

The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations.

The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions- about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with and absorb the consequent transnational flows of money, ideas, influence and care.

The word 'batik' is possibly of Malay origin from the word 'tik' meaning 'to drip' or 'to drop.

The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.

This book presents the outcome of the Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (SLUAS) project, which was the pilot undertaking for development in a series of projects on land use.

This volume provides a survey of the world's iron-ore resources during the 1960s and the distribution of the iron and steel industries.

This book presents a systematic study of urban green space remote sensing from multi-dimensional and multi-scale technologies.

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic.

This book explores the complexities of landslide susceptibility and critical rainfall conditions in Lower Austria through a detailed analysis and actionable insights.

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system.

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change.

This edited volume surveys how current local governance policies and development strategies across Africa and the Middle east are advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges they make for the communities dependent on this industry.

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the growing Asian tourism market and consumption in Arctic destinations.

Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations.

Rural Development in Practice focuses on the evolving nature of rural development in the Global South.

Latin American Transnational Children and Youth focuses on understanding young people's connection to nature and place within a transnational and Latin American context.

Making Climate Compatible Development Happen introduces readers to the concept of climate compatible development (CCD) through exploring what it might look like, how it could be achieved in practice and identifying challenges and dilemmas raised by CCD.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of the spatial assumptions underpinning transboundary protected areas in Europe, at a time of surging global enthusiasm in creating and managing such areas.

The quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting, policies could not cope efficiently and effectively with contemporary complex, cross-cutting and interdependent socio-environmental problems.

Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes of planning in terms of their structure, practical application and underlying philosophies.

Published in 1999.

Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago.

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

Vietnam and the neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia face diverse challenges created by the rapid evolution of their social, economic and environmental systems and resources.

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date.

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.

Originally published in 1984.

Recent years have seen a growth in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and collaborative networks involving knowledge-intensive and hi-tech industries.

A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa.

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

Originally published in 1991.

The End of the Developmental State?

Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places during and after the experience of mobility.

An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world.

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil, and gas, which is only set to increase.

Originally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequences that have followed this rapid growth.