Geography

This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent.

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice.

This book aims to draw readers' attention to the benefits once present nature in Azerbaijan.

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.

This work book contributes to the knowledge about human settlements in the Isla Grande of Tierra Del Fuego by the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited the area until the early twentieth century.

Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl.

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present.

The tourism and hospitality industry is rapidly undergoing a disruptive transformation owing to advances in information and communications technology.

This book provides readers with an insight into the development of a novel method for regridding gridded spatial data, an operation required to perform the map overlay operation and apply map algebra when processing spatial data.

Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world.

Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people's cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state.

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society.

This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency in the twenty-first century.

This book investigates critical urban issues related to socio-spatial segregation, housing, daily travel, mobility of the elderly, etc.

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

Geographers have for a long time contributed much valuable detailed data on the geographical patterns of disease and health care delivery to the medical world.

Between the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified.

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South - mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision.

Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.

Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society's Globalization and Education SIG Book AwardCambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods.

This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world.

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed.

Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play.

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change.

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War.

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering approximately 40% (52 million km2) of the Earth's land surface.

Urban and regional planners develop and evaluate plans for communities-the places we live, work, interact, and entertain on a daily basis.

Over the last fifty years, a large number of spaceborne and airborne sensors have been employed to gather information regarding the earth's surface and environment.

The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints.

This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people's understanding of their environment.

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

This book offers a regional analysis of the impact of fake news - misinformation, malinformation and disinformation - on electoral democracy and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, which has taken place in the middle of a global health pandemic.

This book analyzes the issues associated with climate change in the Himalayas.

Spatial econometrics deals with spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity, critical aspects of the data used by regional scientists.

This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity.

This book examines contemporary urban sharing mobilities, such as shared and public forms of everyday urban mobility.

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations.

A practical book for those engaged in marine surveying and charting activities who must acquire, process and present data for hydrographic or engineering purposes.

This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households.

Originally published in 1994, this volume brings together a set of essays reflecting the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors.

In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories - known as Sherlockians - worked together to create a 'world of Sherlock Holmes' that crossed the boundary between reality and fiction.

This book is about how energy, risk and governance are intertwined in the development of the nuclear industry in India and its relationship with the Indian public.

This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology.

This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective.

An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman take the reader on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world's grandest island.

The typical town springs up around a natural resource-a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor-or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town.

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career.