Regional geography

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights.

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights.

In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth.

In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth.

With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art.

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world.

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world.

Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history.

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceausescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

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

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers.

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The Arctic has become a global arena.

This edited volume examines how climate action plans engage justice at the scale of the city.

This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations.

This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity.

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

This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, and discusses the main issues and their solution alternatives for the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection efforts.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches.

This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesis, pollution and management.

This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies.

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference "e;Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions"e;, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.

This book presents a selection of the best papers submitted to the International Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver, October 7-11, 2019.

This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

The giant Asian monsoon has formed a diverse climate and natural environment.

This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia.

This book presents commuting as a new paradigm in mobility studies in the context of global south.

Border Urbanism presents a global array of authors' research that tackles the perception, interpretation, and nature of borders from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Originally published in 1987, this book discusses the problem of rural employment in developing countries.

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

Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities' lives, livelihood and gendered relations.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

This book investigates how extractive capitalism has developed over the past three decades, what dynamics of resistance have been deployed to combat it, and whether extractivism can ever be transformed into being a part of a progressive development path.

The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology.

This book presents recent advances in renewable energy scenarios for future Indian smart cities including technologies and devices at the scales of both experimental and theoretical models for Industry 4.

This book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern Patagonia.

This book presents recent advances in renewable energy scenarios for future Indian smart cities including technologies and devices at the scales of both experimental and theoretical models for Industry 4.

This book represents a multidisciplinary and international vision across different countries in Europe that are facing similar challenges about ageing and quality of life in present cities.

Various natural and man-made hazards are nowadays increasingly considered as disasters, particularly by individual and communities are lacking in awareness and where a system as a whole has no adequate management mechanism.

Various natural and man-made hazards are nowadays increasingly considered as disasters, particularly by individual and communities are lacking in awareness and where a system as a whole has no adequate management mechanism.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

This book focuses on the transformation of Bangladesh in respect to its people, geography, economy and environment.

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.