Geography

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.

This book presents important recent applied mathematics research on environmental problems and impacts due to climate change.

The most renowned travel story of the Middle Ages has never lost its allure.

This book presents the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the physical environment of Hungary.

This book explores the real-world consequences changing ideas and strategies have on effective climate governance.

This book is the first volume of a two-volume set summarizing 40 years of key research findings directly related to metal-resistant Cupriavidus/Ralstonia (Betaproteobacteria).

Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies.

Originally published in 1990, and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface, this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners, and the effect it has had on people's lives, the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded.

The International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 represented a remarkable watershed.

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.

The book on acid soils offers a thorough analysis of the degree of soil acidity at the global level, information on the biota, chemistry, and behaviour of acid soils, as well as the mechanisms by which plants tolerate soil acidity.

This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process.

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China.

Das Handbuch führt in den aktuellen Diskussionsstand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsforschung ein und liefert einen systematischen Überblick über die Vielfalt der vertretenen Paradigmen und Forschungsfelder.

This unique book, a milestone of graphic reporting, has become a trade reference classic since its first publication in the 1970s.

This book analyzes the relationship between urbandevelopment, greenhouse gases and the carbon footprint, and presents the mainpreventive measures that can be implemented at the design stage.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural character.

This book documents the return of the surviving sled dogs of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912 from Antarctica, where they had helped Roald Amundsen become the first human to reach the South Pole.

The fifth Millennium Development target of reducing infant mortality by two thirds by the year 2015 can only be achieved if mortality due to malaria is significantly reduced.

While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention.

Geography of the world has always been of paramount importance.

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China's recent stepping up of relations with Africa is one of the most significant developments on the African continent for decades.

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.

This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective.

This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict.

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 explores the concept of distinction in geography.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day.

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror.

The first systematic examination of the role of geomorphological processes in the cycling of carbon through the terrestrial system.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

This book introduces environmental participation as a distinct field comprising diverse practices.

The location of "e;the South"e; is hardly a settled or static geographic concept.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh.

This text examines education and its role in Third World development.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers.

Satellite remote sensing, in particular by radar altimetry, is a crucial technique for observations of the ocean surface and of many aspects of land surfaces, and of paramount importance for climate and environmental studies.

This short book examines the availability and adoption of new education technologies in higher education institutions in India.

This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident.

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated, and for closer links between the university and the region.

The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography.

This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia.