Geography

This book explains and illustrates how Indonesia as the largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia can become independent of fossil fuels by both reducing its energy needs and using renewable resources.

Squatting is currently a global phenomenon.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus.

This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques.

Kaplans AP Human Geography 2017-2018 provides essential practice, targeted review, and proven strategies to help students ace the AP Human Geography exam.

New York became the world's first megacity in the 1930s.

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts.

To varying extents in developed countries a minority of the population suffers from deprivation.

The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become highly discussed across the social sciences and the humanities.

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields.

Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands.

Originally published in French as Le territoire europeen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has seen in the past half century.

This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central Europe.

Making interactive web maps has never been easier.

The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries.

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change narrates the forty-year quest of award-winning and internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond.

This book is an introduction to the use of the ultraviolet for remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere.

This book aims to offer research at the cutting edge.

Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.

This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role.

The principal barrier to the introduction of more sustainable disposal methods has previously been thought to be the lack of both available knowledge and an awareness of the benefits and ease of these systems.

The relationship between innovation, networks and localities is of central concern for many nations.

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

A complete introduction to the theory and practice of contemporary counselling psychology An excellent resource for students at undergraduate or graduate level, Counselling Psychology: A Textbook for Study and Practice provides valuable insights into the key issues associated with theory and practice in this field.

This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization.

This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2021) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2021 held during 22nd-25th May, 2021 in Nanchang, China.

Census data is widely used by practitioners to understand demographic change, allocate resources, address inequalities, and make sound business decisions.

The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place relationship.

In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced.

From the Amazon Basin to the terraces of Macchu Picchu, here is a complete visual introduction to South America.

This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation.

With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe.

Urban planning is undergoing a period of transformation across Europe, with a major trend towards increased urban competition, national deregulation and greater private sector influence.

Rural Regeneration in the UK provides an accessible yet critical overview of rural regeneration policy and governance in the UK.

This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or Italianita - through migration history.

The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China's manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands a widely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in Geography, Geology and Earth/Environmental Science departments.

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 was first published in 1980.

Economic geographers increasingly consider the significance of history in shaping the contemporary socio-economic landscape, and increasingly believe that experiences and competencies, acquired over time by individuals and entities in particular localities, to a large degree determine present configurations as well as future regional trajectories.

This book gathers and updates the most significant advances of the last two centuries and presents an unprecedented micro paleontological study covering more than 20 stratigraphic sections.

For decades now we have been told that we are living through a governance revolution.

Most African states experienced only a few fleeting years of democratic rule after independence before succumbing to authoritarianism.

First published in 1979.

This book introduces the fundamentals of research methods and how they apply to the discipline of urban and regional planning.