Regional geography

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.

This book explores the evolving nature of food systems in Africa, which are at crisis point.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe.

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

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

Since the doi moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic socioeconomictransformation.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in the field of urban planning and management and provide better solutions for numerous urban problems.

Real Estate and Urban Development in South America uncovers how investors are navigating South American real estate markets in commercial, residential and infrastructure development.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

A European Geography provides a geographical interpretation and exposition of the whole of Europe.

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 meta cities as well as at sub-city zonal and community and neighborhood level.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O.

This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest.

First published in 1999.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 is considered to have been one of the worst natural disasters in history, affecting twelve countries, from Indonesia to Somalia.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

This book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history.

As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective.

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This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the transformative journey toward smart cities and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in urban development.

A distinguished team of Western European scholars has written an advanced, full-length physical geography designed to be a state-of -the-art evaluation of the physical environment of Western Europe, being both retrospective and prospective in its perception of environmental change.

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

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf's celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf's contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism, the state, and imperialism.

This book provides an overview of innovative and new directions being chartered in South African tourism geographies.

Reviews of previous editions: `This book should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders.

This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry.

This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, matter, subjectivity, human agency, and politics.

The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental, and political issues in the contemporary world.

Title first published in 2003.

Concerned primarily with statistical data, this text aims to provide a guide to the nature, uses, availability and limitations of the main data sources for interpreting and undertaking regional studies of economic activity.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

This book discusses the history and contemporary practice of studying cultures 'at home', by examining Europe's regional or 'small' ethnologies of the past, present and future.

Originally published in 1984.

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles.

The Pacific Basin: An Introduction is a new textbook which provides an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of the emerging Pacific world.

A substantial proportion of the world's population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged as a major focus for research.

This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa.

Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterranean.

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science.

This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us.

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

The idea that we can meet human needs and simultaneously conserve and even enhance the natural environment is an attractive one.