Geography

This book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration.

The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated 'systems' approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people's livelihoods.

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries.

This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography's resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique.

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined.

The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged.

Arresting and beautiful, The Consolation of Maps tells a story of ill-fated passion.

This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography.

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable.

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention.

This book is a collection of research articles that deal with three aspects of simulation and gaming for social design: (1) Theory and methodology, including game system theory and agent-based modeling; (2) Sustainability, including global warming and the energy-food nexus);; and (3) Social entrepreneurship, including business, ethnic, and ethical understanding.

China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020.

Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications.

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation.

Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "e;southern"e;, mainly oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia, Europe and eastern North America.

The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.

The AQA Geography for A Level & AS Human Geography Revision Guide is the most student-friendly resource for the 2016 AQA A Level and AS Level Geography specifications - written specially to target the demands of revising for these content-heavy linear geography courses.

Covering a wide range of topics and citing examples from the developed and developing countries the present set shall be of great use and immense utility for those who are interested in the study of man and environment relationship and those who are concerning increasingly with the problems of environmental pollution, sustainable development and future of man his use and misuse of the biotic and abiotic resources.

This book examines electric car sharing in cities from a variety of perspectives, from service design to simulation, from mathematical modeling to technology deployment, and from energy use improvement to the integration of different kinds of vehicle.

Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes.

Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona?

Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates, and colonies.

Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent.

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist.

Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka.

"e;A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees across the world by 2050.

The San (hunter- gatherers) and Khoe (herders) of southern Africa were dispossessed of their land before, during and after the European colonial period, which started in 1652.

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.

Insurance is the world's largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure.

Dieses Buch zeigt die Chancen und Herausforderungen auf, die sich in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft durch Flüchtlinge ergeben.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

World Spatial Metadata Standards represents years of work by the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission during the 1995-2003 ICA cycles.

Padron reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia.

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes:  both floods and droughts.

Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region.

This book is written to transform land disputes toward win-win outcomes utilizing the latest sustainable development theory.

In both academic scholarship and the popular imagination, the globality of modern society has been represented by global cities as the corporate and financial epicentres for capital accumulation, cosmopolitan cultures and innovative change.

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 5 typical human settlement types: river valleys, water networks, hills, plains, and arid areas.

This book presents the forensic geoscience in general and, in particular, in Italy and their application to peculiar crimes.

Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city.