Geography

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism.

This major study, first published in 1989, examines Western Europe's urban problems in unprecedented breadth and depth.

Now available in paperback, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia.

Tourism is characterized by diversity, enormous growth, and multidimensional impacts on several levels.

This volume contains the extended versions of selected papers presented at the first Mediterranean Conference "e;Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building"e; held at the Polytechnic ofBari in December 1999, supported by the National Research Council of Italy.

Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers an introduction to recent developments in port and hinterland strategies, operations and related specializations.

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This proceedings has four thematic parts: advanced aerospace manufacturing technology, near space system and application technology, accurate perception technology of the earth, and collaborative fusion application technology.

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

Die Messung biologischer Parameter von Böden erlaubt eine rasche Beurteilung der Auswirkung chemischer und physikalischer Einflüsse auf den Boden.

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers.

Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of tools for integrating and processing spatial information.

This book is written primarily for a Scandinavian and European audience interested in regional policy and planning.

This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better.

Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

This book explores small town geographical aspects by approaching them from a socio-spatial perspective.

This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent development after the 1965 separation of Singapore and Malaysia.

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap.

To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earths interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults.

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide.

This book challenges the prevalent assumptions of caste, hierarchy and social mobility in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism?

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

Floodplainsprovides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions.

Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today.

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments.

Robin Hofmann zeigt im vorliegenden Buch, wie in der Flüchtlingskrise die neue europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur zunehmend an ihre Grenzen stößt.

GIS for Sustainable Development examines how GIS applications can improve collaboration in decision making among those involved in promoting sustainable development.

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays.

This manuscript is the 4th Volume of the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY) monograph sub-series.

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century.

First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is based on a selection of papers presented at the IORG launch in Chandigarh in November 2002.

Ernesto Caravantes was among the multitudes of people who were affected by the Recession of 2008, the financial impact of which continues to be felt to this day.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world.

The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum.

The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day.

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.

This book provides the world community with the most up-to-date and comprehensive scientific and technical knowledge based on climate change impact assessment, adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Indian Himalayan region.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences.

A collection of papers prepared for the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment's (EFIEA) Policy Workshop on Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessment, held from 12-19 July 2000.