Regional geography

This book offers a collaborative investigation of the policies and practices which have redeveloped local and national economies in the aftermath of the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008.

First published in 1976, Industrial Location and Planning in the United Kingdom investigates in detail the nature of the changes taking place in the location of manufacturing industry since the 1950s and the reasons for them, including the effects of government regional policy and of factors such as market accessibility, labour availability and cost, transport facilities and personal residential preferences by industrialists and workers.

Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide.

Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world.

This book assesses the roadmap for the implementation of the SDGs in South Asia, focusing in particular on the areas of poverty reduction, inequality, health/well-being and water and sanitation.

While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses.

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities.

Few people have any coherent idea of whether the shifts taking place in land-use structure are critically important for us all, or whether they are largely immaterial.

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development.

In this book, the authors present a combination of research-by-design, place-based, and policy-oriented approaches to the territorial fragilities of Nicosia.

Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding?

Reflecting on some of Brazil's foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.

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

Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda.

Biopolitics refers to a form of politics concerned with administering and regulating the conditions of life at an aggregated level of populations.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development.

Views on spatial planning and its role have changed significantly over the past few years and the issues it deals with have become increasingly more complex.

This proceedings book provides selections from the 2022 Topical Issues in International Political Geography (TIPG) meeting.

The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective alternative to socialist large-scale agriculture.

This volume redefines the genre of sector studies.

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

This book describes the Central Sahara region, bringing together an unprecedented combination of diverse and often historic research published in different languages in order to describe its varied landscapes and landforms.

There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation.

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017.

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in China's rural development.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory.

This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

This, the 131st edition of The Statesman's Year-Book, has been throughly revised and updated to present a political, economic and social record of the nations of the world in a period of continuing changes.

The attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development.

This title was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming countries for the past few decades.

This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change.

This book discusses the significance of social geography, a multidimensional sub-discipline of georgraphy encompassing social health, social security and social ethos.

The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, are largely marginalized or dismissed.

Der Band dokumentiert ein Lebensprojekt: Für Alexander von Humboldt war die Geographie der Pflanzen empirisches Forschungsprogramm und ästhetische Anschauungswissenschaft zugleich.

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters.

This book aims to understand the predicaments of 'left behind places' and the scale of the policy challenge of 'levelling up' their economic prosperity.

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world.

A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China and India as intrinsically competitive entities.

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.

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

South Africa's transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country's national climate change response strategy.

Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself.

This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts.

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change.

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions.