Geography

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

How does being located in borderlands impact cultural identity, through both assimilation and distinctness?

An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

Coastal Systems offers a concise introduction to the processes, landforms, ecosystems, and management of coasts.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management, environmental economics, production economics and sustainable agricultural development.

In all, the European Space Agency (ESA) has developed 60 spacecrafts over the last few decades.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon, including in India.

In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean.

This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law.

This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation.

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names, used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes.

This book seeks to provide illustrations of Arctic mysteries and fictions which often occur as a result of misconceptions of Arctic geography.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

Governments that preside over a capable state apparatus can better uphold the rule of law, ensure democratic accountability, stimulate economic development, and provide good governance.

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change?

The Landscapes and Landforms of Spain provides an informative and inviting overview of the geology and geomorphology of Spain.

Destinations are a central feature of tourism and the focus of much tourism research.

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs).

Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own.

This book offers readers a thorough introduction to the Dinaric Karst System in Croatia.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded.

Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed.

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beschreiben die Besonderheiten und die Gemeinsamkeiten der Fachdidaktiken für das gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Aufgabenfeld (Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik).

Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism.

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society.

First Published in 2004.

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

This thesis reports on sparsity-based multipath exploitation methods for through-the-wall radar imaging.

The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia.

This book investigates community interpreting services as a market offering that satisfies the needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) members of the Australian community, with an additional chapter on the Turkish context.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

An exploration of the benefits of cloud computing in geoscience research and applications as well as future research directions, Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach discusses the essential elements of cloud computing and their advantages for geoscience.

Design is central to every service or good produced, sold and consumed.

Degradation of agricultural catchments due to water erosion is a major environmental threat at the global scale, with long-lasting destructive consequences valued at tens of billions of dollars per annum.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

Originally published in 1973, this book begins with the arrival of the Europeans in South Africa.