Geography

The Angolan War of 1975-1976 focused international attention on an area -long relegated to the sidelines of world diplomacy and accented the historical momentum toward black control of southern African states.

This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations.

A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal''s classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.

The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability.

Geographic Information Systems mainly tend to be two dimensional, thus limiting the applications.

In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before.

A rare collection of photographs that are the heart of The Springs of Florida was obtained over a period of many years.

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences.

International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon.

The fast exchange of information and knowledge are the essential conditions for successful and effective research and practical applications in cartography.

This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses.

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident.

Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide.

After providing a historical overview, this book highlights the current state of knowledge, gaps in our knowledge, recent findings and future prospects with regard to the biological, chemical, geological, and geographical specificities of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia.

The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy.

The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts.

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment.

This book is specifically designed to serve the community of postgraduates and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, health GIS, medical geography, and health management.

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

This book deals with every aspect of oceanography in detail including various aspects of physical, chemical, geological, and biological discourse.

This title was first published in 2000: The first book which brings together and interprets both the theoretical concepts associated with the study of networks in the business world, and the policy applications being applied to the practical building and development of such networks.

The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks.

Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls.

This book contains the complete text of the special Golden Anniversary issue of the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Papers in Regional Science (Volume 83, Number 1), as well as the full text of Walter Isard's Presidential Address "e;The future (near and far) of regional science"e;.

This book explores how around the world, women's increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities.

It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered.

This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.

An ideal resource for lecturers, this book provides a comprehensive review of experimental space astronomy.

A profound knowledge of the past climate is vital for our understanding of global warming.

Mobilität und Logistik schaffen Wohlstand und Lebensqualität.

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas.

This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal.

Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Zusammenstellung über die Methodik von Messungen des aktuellen Wasser- und Stofftransportes in Fließgewässern.

Area Studies became increasingly common after World War II as a means of responding to perceived 'external threats' from the Soviet Union and China.

Servicing the Middle Classes investigates the recent rise in demand by middle class families for waged domestic labour and the consequent growth of a new `servant' class.

India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives.

This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes.

COVID-19, a novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our society in many ways.

Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management.

The Arctic has become a global arena.

^iEco-Hydrology is the first book to offer an overview of the complex relationships between plants and water across a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic environments.

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice.

After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance.

This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005.

Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony.

What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces?