Geography

The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants' children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children.

Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move.

This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades.

This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment.

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

The survey and the transference are the distinctive and operative acts in the transmission of real property and, where they differ from each other, one must of necessity control the other.

Much valuable information in compiling this volume has been obtained from the Final Report on the Survey and Settlement of North Monghyr (1905-1907), by Mr.

This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise research in human-animal studies.

Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free.

Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China's economic rise.

This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society.

Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa.

Do you feel happier on a sunny day?

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use.

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities.

New Approaches to Cinematic Space aims to discuss the process of creation of cinematic spaces through moving images and the subsequent interpretation of their purpose and meaning.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the 'role-model of regionalism' whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive 'downloading process'.

Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time.

„Islamkritik“ ist eines der Schlagworte unserer Zeit.

This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit and socialise within urban environments.

This book focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

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What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development?

Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem.

The internationalisation of food retailing and manufacturing that has swept through the agri-food system in industrialised countries is now moving into middle- and low-income countries with large rural populations, causing significant institutional changes that affect small producer agriculture and the livelihoods of rural communities the world over.

In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities.

Duecks anregende und provozierende Analyse des Menschen, seiner Wege und Ziele und der Bedingungen, unter denen er sein Leben lebt, hat große Resonanz ausgelöst.

An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world.

This book explores how a handful of liberal foundations contributed to establish and orientate the international climate regime.

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.

This book offers a window into the mechanisms that drive events when countries with poor track records in environmental protection and low administrative capacity, join an organisation with ambitious environmental regulatory regimes, which include some of the highest environmental protections standards in the world.

In the context of ageing populations, increasing participation of women in the labour market, growing marketisation of care provision, and, most importantly, global inequalities, racialised care workers have come to fulfil a key role within older-age care in western European societies.

Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi is arguably the greatest text to have emerged from the anti-colonial movement in India and the first to seriously challenge the cultural and civilizational premises of the colonizers' mentality.

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization.

Coastal East and Southeast Asia are characterized by wet growing seasons, and species-rich forest ecosystems develop throughout the latitudinal and altitudinal gradients.

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective.

This book intends to identify and publicize the unique features of Austrian geomorphology.

Innovative Cities presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart.