Geography

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species.

This volume of essays is a reflection on social memory as a force for social and economic transformation.

This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of changes in land cover, land use and climate with people, societies and ecosystems in drylands of Greater Central Asia.

This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work.

Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not.

The presentation and representation of the environment can be found in every academic discipline and is a subject of increasing attention by the media.

There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries.

This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the complexity and patterns of international migration.

Discover the principles and techniques of remote sensing with polarimetric radar This book presents the principles central to understanding polarized wave transmission, scattering, and reception in communication systems and polarimetric and non-polarimetric radar.

By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks.

On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe.

The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact.

This volume addresses the imperative need for recognizing, exploring, and developing the role of multilingual communication in crisis settings.

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended.

This class-tested textbook examines the basic elements of living systems: energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats in crucial depth.

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves.

The new, updated edition of the authoritative and comprehensive survey of modern sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology, Second Edition is an authoritative survey of the major topics, current and emerging trends, and contemporary issues in the study of human social relationships and institutions.

This book highlights the latest research in the field of Sustainable Aviation.

The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 is the most comprehensive review of the status of Australia's avifauna ever attempted.

This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work.

Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia) antecedents.

Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'.

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture.

The demand on local government to do more with less by improving operations, increasing productivity, and making better and more informed decisions increases constantly.

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning.

Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the dictates of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) when dealing with messy human realities.

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations.

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes.

This book provides a unique comparative study of the major secessionist and self-determination movements in post-colonial Africa, examining theory, international law, charters of the United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union's (AU) stance on the issue.

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism?

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region.

The book discusses the demographic changes in Muslim countries.

Bei der Geografie geht es längst nicht nur darum, zu wissen, wo welches Land oder welcher Fluss zu finden ist.

This book gathers selected and expanded contributions presented at the 4th Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications, which was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on October 16-18, 2017.

The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic.

Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats.

The author, experienced in industry and academia, presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues of environmental management.

This volume introduces the notion of 'relational planning' through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice.

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber's ground-breaking article, "e;Popular Arts in Africa"e;, which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world.

Wälder mit natürlicher Entwicklung spielen für den Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt eine zentrale Rolle.

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.

This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation.

Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of firebrand, populist, anti-American president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.