Geography

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia.

The creation of safe areas poses a number of difficult challenges to the spatial and normative organization of contemporary international politics.

A small, poor, little-known nation, the Central African Republic has had a troubled history, from the days of slave raids by Arab-speaking peoples from the north, through the bizarre rule of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, to the present military regime.

This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states and external actors.

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it.

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

This book provides an overview of the typical nature-based solutions (NBS) used for flood mitigation at different scales and in different areas (e.

This book presents selected papers from the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference 2022, which was held at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India, November 24-25, 2022.

There is a poetic convergence between the struggles of people on the move and people in the peripheries of power, as they may collectively envision alternative forms of coexistence and fight together for fundamental rights and a dignified life.

Through a deep examination of what has become known as the 'Preston Model', this book explores an innovative approach to local economic development that utilises economic democratisation to realise both social and economic objectives.

This book gives an overview of various aspects of blue carbon dynamics from each country bordering the Indian Ocean.

A thorough and detailed resource that describes the history, culture, and geography of the Himalayan region, providing an indispensable reference work to both general readers and seasoned scholars in the field.

This book analyzes the competitiveness of European regions and presents forecasts for 2030 and 2100 under different climate scenarios.

Die Befassung mit ‚Landschaft‘ hat in den letzten Jahren in der Öffentlichkeit und den Wissenschaften an Bedeutung gewonnen.

This book focuses on the potential natural resources of Bangladesh from Precambrian to recent times and their detailed geological background.

This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today.

This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities.

This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy.

Originally published in 1983.

This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives.

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to "e;safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space"e; as outlined in United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No.

This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official National Park Service trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The coasts cover a diverse range of ecosystems within marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments.

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development.

Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities, and Sexualities at the University of Winchester.

This book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography.

This book provides a synthesis of the physiography and geodynamics of the entire Pyrenean orogen and its foreland basins, providing the "e;big picture"e; (structure of the orogen and chronology of its formation, overview of its post-orogenic evolution, and Quaternary and recent landscape history).

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature.

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

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer's perspective.

Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence.

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexities.

PISA-Studien haben unübersehbar verdeutlicht, wie selektiv das deutsche Bildungssystem ist und wie stark es soziale Ungleichheit reproduziert.

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies.

This book presents the latest advances in mapping the geological structures and modeling the geodynamical and petrological processes in the Hoggar shield and adjacent areas of the northeast West African Craton, which is home to the oldest rocks in Algeria.

In the 21st century the importance of earth sciences in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the planet on which we live, has increased tremendously.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local activists.

Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities.

This volume is dedicated to collaborative research across STEM disciplines, the arts and humanities.

This book offers a collaborative investigation of the policies and practices which have redeveloped local and national economies in the aftermath of the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008.

With the achievement of further EU and NATO enlargement, a critical political and economic lens is now focused on East Central Europe and, to a lesser extent, the other former communist states.

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This book aims to summarize and report the major research achievements and validation results under the global land cover (GLC) initiative led by the Group Earth Observation (GEO).

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda.