Geography

This book gathers various perspectives on modern map production.

First Published 1970, Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellers' tales from the most important of old and rare books.

This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform the dominant role of citizens and technology in smart cities.

This book explores the use of advanced geospatial techniques in geomorphic hazards modelling and risk reduction.

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay).

This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents.

The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends -- Ali Mazrui, Victor Olorunsola, Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai.

This book aims to introduce scientists and educated laymen to the fascinating geology of the Bergell Alps, first with some background information on geology, tectonics, minerals and rocks and then to lead readers on excursions to observe geological features in the field.

Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott's comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory.

Kyrgyzstan is an interesting example of a relatively weak state, which for its brief period of independence has already ousted two presidents, experienced two revolutions, survived two interethnic conflicts and yet remained intact.

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories.

A comprehensive overview of Saudi Arabia's environment, this volume is a unique and authoritative text on the geological and environmental aspects of Saudi Arabia, a country about which little is known by the outside world.

Locational research has long been concerned with industrial plants and the site selection of retail stores.

The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change.

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place.

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s.

Demand for water in agricultural, municipal, industrial, and environmental uses is growing.

Essentials of Social Psychology: An Indian Perspective offers a comprehensive introduction to social psychology with a focus on the cultural and social fabric of Indian society.

Urban planners who need to design information systems require an understanding of systems analysis, data acquisition and GIS.

This title was originally published in 1983.

At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles.

The Earth's Age and Geochronology provides an outline of geochronological methods, applications, and interpretations.

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the 'global city' but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million.

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character.

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.

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

Der Sammelband Raum und Bild gibt Einblick in die Verortung und Erforschung visueller Kommunikation über Raum und der damit einhergehenden (Re)Produktion von Raum durch die Präsentation von empirischen Projekten aus aktueller sozial-, kultur- und raumbezogener Forschung.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 8th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (8IYGEC 2021) on the following conference themes: Foundation Engineering, Rock Engineering, Slope Stability and Landslides and Deep Excavation and Underground Structures.

This book is a natural extension of the SCOPE (Scientific Committee of Problems on the Environment) volumes on the carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S) biogeochemical cycles and their interactions (Likens, 1981; Bolin and Cook, 1983).

An updated guide to GNSS, and INS, and solutions to real-world GNSS/INS problems with Kalman filtering Written by recognized authorities in the field, this third edition of a landmark work provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity of the theory and contemporary applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Inertial Navigational Systems, and Kalman filters.

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the impact of globalization on port evolution within the different regions of Africa.

Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands.

The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration.

For the last 134 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Societal Influence explores how the coronavirus pandemic impacts the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), paying particular attention to socioeconomic and disaster risk management dimensions.

This book provides a critical analysis of the interactions of humans and wildlife in Zimbabwe.

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

New data acquisition techniques are emerging and are providing fast and efficient means for multidimensional spatial data collection.

This book analyses the political transition in West Bengal, India, which witnessed longest democratically elected Left regime of the world.

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics.

Geography Today provides a thoughtful and thorough introduction to the study of geography-from maps and technology to the study of different cultures, political systems, and economies, and an investigation of plate tectonics and climate systems.

​Naturparke sind die älteste Schutzgebietskategorie in Deutschland, sie nehmen jedoch im Vergleich zu Nationalparken und Biosphärenreservaten in der Außenwahrnehmung einen eher nachgeordneten Platz ein.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization.

Discover the stories behind Jane Goodall's visionary approach to community-led conservation.