Regional geography

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South.

Balkanization (territorial fragmentation) is becoming a significant urban and geopolitical pursuit in contemporary times.

The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop "e;Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters"e; workshop held in 2006.

Published in 1997, this book traces the development of European Food Aid Policy from its inception in the 1960s through to the 1990s.

During the 1990s there were two major developments to the Common EU Maritime Transport Policy (CMTP): the establishment of European Union policies on safe seas and on shortsea shipping respectively.

KulturSchock USA ist der informative Begleiter, um die Vereinigten Staaten und ihre Bewohner besser zu verstehen.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development, combining a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere.

How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas?

The book summarizes the latest research achievements of the "e;CAS Earth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles"e; project in actively responding to the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes.

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.

The Arctic has become a global arena.

For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas.

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, ?

This book explores the possibility of building the resilience of the UNESCO cultural landscapes, both using theoretical conceptions and practical strategies and actions.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change.

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment.

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to "e;safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space"e; as outlined in United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No.

Debate still rages over some of the questions Doreen Massey provoked in the classic first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labor, such as the nature of theory, the importance of contingency and uniqueness, and the relationship of Marxism.

Contemporary processes of economic, social, political and cultural restructuring are having profound impacts on the form and function of rural areas within the countries of the European Union and beyond.

This book, originally published in 1987, presents a broad overview of the spatial organization of the European economy, providing a valuable synthesis of recently published material by geographers and other social scientists.

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

This book explores some of the common socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by the cities of South Asia, which remain highly under-researched.

The Arctic is one of the world's regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes.

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrA-ncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature.

The South China Sea is a geopolitical hotspot where China and the US compete for dominance and the adjacent countries try to improve their position by hedging between these two superpowers.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.

Originally published in 1991.

Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system.

Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to reduce poverty and empower disadvantaged communities.

Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security.

Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content.

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers.

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North.

The book presents a reinterpretation of the meaning and practices of uncommoning.

This volume explores the spatial side of sustainability using cases from India.

The book offers a model for city development and renewal based on land value capture (called 'value capture').

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.

Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this timely book brings together the study of conflict and war and the problems surrounding the economic development of developing societies that are most prone to experiencing problems in moving on after war.

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects.

At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions.

The Russia-Ukraine war that began in 2022 turned the world's attention on Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe and one of the leading global exporters of wheat and other valuable commodities.

First published in 1966, Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries traces the distribution, causes and problems of under-development and, from the point of view of the economic geographer, goes on to examine the difficulties and possibilities of industrialization as a remedy.

First published in 2005, this book is the second volume produced by the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG).

Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders.

Quirlige Souqs, der Ruf des Muezzins, orientalischer Zauber: Viele Klischees prägen das Bild des Marokko-Besuchers.

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and development in Europe, this volume contains a series of regional case studies, drawn from current research in various European countries.

There have been very few, if any, books of a practical nature covering the 'art' of drilling holes in the ground especially for water.