Geography

This book explores how people encounter the pasts of their homes, offering insights into the affective, emotional and embodied geographies of domestic heritage.

Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success.

Originally published in 1982, this is a companion volume to State Housing in Britain.

Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants.

This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.

Nick Couldry is one of the world's leading analysts of media power and voice, and has been publishing widely for 25 years.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism.

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.

Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS).

This book presents a sociological interpretation of the emergence of modernity in India via the colonial encounter, and its ramifications for Indian society, economy, and polity.

This textbook deals jointly with theoretical and practical concepts within geomatics in civil engineering, based on the global understanding of its use.

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments.

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit.

The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg.

This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences.

The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires.

This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

An essential companion for any visitor to the Alps The Alps remain one of Europe's foremost tourist destinations not just for its world-famous scenery, but also its remarkable and diverse wildlife.

Originally published in 1981, this book explores the plight of the locally born or locally employed faced with spiralling house prices and strong and unequal competition from the wealthier commuter, second-home owner or retirement migrant.

Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

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 edited volume gathers the proceedings of the Symposium GIS Ostrava 2016, the Rise of Big Spatial Data, held at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, March 16-18, 2016.

Originally published in 1977.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States.

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity.

This is the first book which provides an engaging and insightful narrative on the life of a geographer in India.

This book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies.

Originally published in 1992 and based on two theoretical approaches: the Global Commodity Chain and the Global Production Network, this book investigates the multitude of processes, as well as diverse consequences of global integration upon industries, regions, enterprises and employees.

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US.

This book reports the latest results in the study of Bistatic/Multistatic SAR system and signal processing techniques.

Published in 1999.

This book discusses the way in which economic integration and preferential trade agreements reinforce or alter the existing location of industries.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.

Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view.

This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards.

Originally published in 1952.

Optical Properties and Remote Sensing of Inland and Coastal Waters discusses the methodology and the theoretical basis of remote sensing of water.

Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were?

This critical analysis of aid organizations illustrates the expanding role of NGOs in international relief operations, and highlights the problems confronted by humanitarian groups.

Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction provides students with an accessible overview of the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).