Geography

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the overarching goal of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

Der Band thematisiert gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse, die im Kontext von FluchtMigration zu beobachten sind.

This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa.

In 1903 Hubbard's husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his cartographic and ethnographic expedition to Labrador.

This title was first published in 2000.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves.

Originally published in 1977.

This book provides insights in how the lack of coherent social policy leads to the displacement of vulnerable low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods facing gentrification.

This book introduces emergency management of barrier lakes systematically,including theories and practices, risk assessment under extremely high-riskconditions, evolution of outburst floods, analysis of anti-impact stability, andemergency management technology and assessment of risk elimination effect.

The book studies the "e;Manchurian immigrants"e; from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women's issues.

By examining a range of experiences from both the north and south of Ireland, this book asks what the ideal of sustainable development might mean to specific rural groups and how sustainable development goals have been pursued across the policy spectrum.

One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes).

This book is dedicated to the analysis of bottom waters flows through underwater channels of the Atlantic Ocean.

In recent years, the study of human geography has been reshaped by the work of feminist geographers, and as a result a considerable number of universities now include feminist geography and gender issues in their courses.

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city.

As the USA's domination of world affairs meets ever-widening international resentment, this revealing interrogation of America's global footprint explores the complexities of its impact on the world.

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy.

'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale.

The central concerns of mobilities research - exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector.

This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector.

This book examines Gandhi's idea of swaraj as an alternative to the modern concept of political authority.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have experienced conflict.

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition.

Published in 1959, this book presents a study of transport problems including those of the coordination of inland transport, and special problems of coordination in areas of urban transport, civil aviation, sea ports and arising problems in the course of the economic integration of Europe.

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary.

This book explores Louis I.

This book examines the medical biotechnology industry in India through the lens of a critical political economy.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2022) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2022 held during 25th-27th May, 2022 in Beijing, China.

Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, the author argues that it is a key element in the response of the 'intellectual proletariat' to urbanization and the calls on it by the State to control the ensuing way of life.

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong 'colonial' connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence.

Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation is a nuanced exploration of the embodied and affective practices of Moroccans from Europe visiting Morocco for summer vacation.

Much previous literature on sacred natural sites has been written from a non-indigenous perspective.

First published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards.

This accessible and engaging text explores the relationship between philosophy, science and physical 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.

An insight of the authentic information in jharkhand: about all sixteen districts of states, minerals and ores, occurrences with latitude and , history of different ethno-cultural races, places of tourist interest, locations and area, population, religion, geography and physical features, rivers, canals and water ways, communication, agriculture and irrigation, industries, trade, commerce and export, fairs and festivals, education, administration, and assembly and parliamentary constituencies.

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline?

Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob ';Frogfoot' Weller and his wife Margaret.

South-South Development examines the historical background for the current situation: why it suddenly took off again approximately a decade ago; the various vectors of engagement and how they are interrelated; the actors involved; how the revitalisation of South-South development has affected development cooperation 'as it was'; and finally, how it affects the rest of the Global South.

Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves.

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more.

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century   Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.

The last decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries.

The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester.

The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

This book looks at how Australia's migrant population composition is likely to change over coming decades.

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation.

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities.