Geography

Over the past decade, since the publication of the first edition, there have been new advances in solving complex geoinformatics problems.

The present volume Geography and Environment: Issues and Challenges is a festschrift in honour of Prof.

Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition worldwide are the major focus of this book, taken up as the principal areas of human deprivation with wide geographical variations as determined by different factors.

What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today?

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment.

Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra.

What do Germany's memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today?

'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers.

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change.

Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity.

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes.

The European Union (EU) has reached crisis point.

Increasingly, the European Union and its member states have exhibited a lack of commitment to protecting the human rights of non-citizens.

This book explores conservation practices on private land, based on research conducted with landholders in the hinterlands of Melbourne, Australia.

This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century.

Children need the chance to explore and understand where they live and all the places surrounding them to make sense of their world.

Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural.

Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect.

Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an unconscious aspect of our everyday existence.

This book explores the transformation of the Tunisian space of mobility after the Arab Uprisings, looking at the country's emerging profile as a migratory "e;destination"e; and focusing on refugees from Syria, Libya, and Sub-Saharan countries; Tunisian migrants in Europe who return home; and young undocumented European migrants living in Tunis.

America's prairies are home to some of the most abundant and beautiful wildflowers in the country.

This book is the first of its type on NEOM Region, NW of Saudi Arabia.

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This book explores current developments in the African energy sector and highlights how these are likely to be affected by the ongoing global efforts to transition to a low-carbon economy.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, and International Law.

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Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.

This book critically interrogates the role of religious faith in the experiences and practices of migrant entrepreneurs against the backdrop of neoliberal Britain.

This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009-better known as the Stimulus Act-leaves no business, no American untouched.

This volume describes the complex characteristics of almost all Russian coastal estuaries systematized in the following regions: the coasts of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Bering Seas.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

This book analyses efforts to advance the rights of Indigenous People within peace-building frameworks: Section I critically explores key issues concerning Indigenous Peoples' Rights (struggles for land, human, cultural, civil, legal and constitutional rights) in connection with key approaches in peace-building (such as nonviolence, non-violent strategic action, peace education, sustainability, gender equality, cultures of peace, and environmental protection).

Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions.

The study of Asian culture, media and communications is an area that has developed rapidly over the past two decades.

How can we theorise partitions differently?

Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this book provides a nuanced picture of the everyday identifications experienced and expressed among the superdiverse Tamil migrant population in Britain.

This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context.

This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

The climate of the Earth is always changing.

The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.