Geography

An exploration of the biodiversity status of coastal habitats worldwide, emphasising their importance to society, major threats and conservation challenges.

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

Ports in Proximity provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies.

An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought.

How does it feel to live in a 'haunted home'?

This book exposes practitioners and students to the theory and application of river and lake ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and forecasting.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

First Published in 2004.

This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration.

This book is one of the main outcomes of the projects "e;Development Programmes and Rural Change in the European Union: governance, results and lessons to share"e;and "e;Successes and failures in the practice of neoendogenous rural development in the European Union (1991-2013)"e;, funded both of them by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

 This book describes the most recent strategies for the digitalization of railway sector that bring new challenges for the construction, operation, and maintenance of railway infrastructures.

This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as 'Urban Renaissance'.

Housing provision is a major dilemma for local authorities.

Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management.

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011.

The book offers a model for city development and renewal based on land value capture (called 'value capture').

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing.

Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia.

Debating is out of fashion.

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

Based on modern limnology and environmental research, syntheses of the composition, functions and production of pelagic ecosystems are being provided in the Great Lakes of Africa.

With the current rise of metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, there is a need to analyse the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe.

This book deals with institutional reforms in response to a mounting environmental crisis in Vietnam.

Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before?

There is currently much interest in the role that transport plays in promoting, or alleviating 'social exclusion'.

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment.

This book uses five decades of map data, air photos, and medium to high-resolution satellite imagery to track the expansions of aquaculture and the loss of both estuarine and mangrove land covers in Ecuador.

By critically appraising current theories of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and agglomeration, this book explores the variety of links that exist between these two externality-creating phenomena.

Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award!

This book provides an overview on the evolution of laser scanning technology and its noticeable impact in the structural engineering domain.

This book is a compelling account of China's response to the increasing numbers of 'foreigners' in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion.

This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre.

The book explores the uneven spatial distribution of territory resources and its implication for the sustainable development of regions and cities.

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute.

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state?

This title was first published in 2001.

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations?

Our use or rather overuse of natural resources is having an increasingly drastic and adverse effect on the environment.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

This volume contains the proceedings from the COSPAR Colloquium on "e;Space Remote Sensing of Subtropical Oceans"e; which took place between 12 and 16 September, 1996, at the Institute of Oceanography of the National Taiwan University.