Geography

Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey.

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The fight against corruption is now a core part of development policy and practice.

The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe.

This book answers the call for NewUrbanization, and proposesa 5+9+6 nationalspatial layout plan for the urbanizationof the 770 major cities in China.

The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this harsh yet sublime landscape.

This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia.

This book presents strategies and models for cultural heritage enhancement from a multidisciplinary perspective.

For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications.

People want to create a better world and planet; however, where, and how to start remains the question.

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names, used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.

Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place.

First published in 2000.

What we eat - as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

Nyaya Sutra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Aksapada, an Indian philosopher who lived around the beginning of the Common Era.

This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India.

The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape.

Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth century, there is an urgent need to understand what little unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating future grassland habitats.

Geographers and other scientists have been taking keen interest inhuman development since very beginning.

'The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance' is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River.

During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention.

In this comprehensive study, problems of racial and religious division are examines in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and the West Bank.

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized.

This title was first published in 2001.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives.

The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness.

These two volumes present a conspectus of current research on the history and culture of early medieval Spain and Portugal, from the time of the Arab conquest in 711 up to the fall of the caliphate.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how, seventeen years after the election of the first Thatcher government, it is clear that despite the attacks, land use planning has survived.

This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

When originally published in 1975, (here re-issuing the 3rd edition of 1985), this was the only genuinely introductory textbook to the subject of transportation planning.

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

Earth Sciences and Archaeology brings together contributions from an experienced group of archaeologists and geologists whose common objective is to present thorough and current reviews of the diverse ways in which methods from the earth sciences can contribute to archaeological research.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics underpinning the successful performance of local innovation systems (LIS), that is, spatial concentration of innovation activities in specific geographical areas, characterized by the synergetic co-localization of research centers, innovation-driven enterprises, large corporations and capital providers.

Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory.

Complying with Colonialism presents a complex analysis of the habitual weak regard attributed to the colonial ties of Nordic Countries.

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history.

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

During the past few decades of the 20th and the first years of the present Century, economic losses and human casualties due to natural disasters increased exponentially on our planet, mainly because of the increased density of population and industry in high hazard areas.

First Published in 2009.

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students.

The concept of mental maps is used in several disciplines including geography, psychology, history, linguistics, economics, anthropology, political science, and computer game design.

The history of New York City's urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park.

Les débats sur l’orpaillage clandestin en Côte d’Ivoire ont été longtemps focalisés sur les dégâts d’ordre environnemental.