Geography

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example.

Was sind die Motive von Menschen, sich nach Feierabend, am Wochenende oder zum Kurzurlaub "auf den Weg zu machen"?

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast.

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope.

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

In this re-evaluation of the basic postulates of geomorphology, first published in 1982, Alistair Pitty examines the subject within its scientific context, arguing that coherence in geomorphology can be demonstrated despite the many apparent divergences, which should themselves be regarded as poles within a spectrum of opinion.

Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture is a guide to innovative architectural design for architects, engineers and other specialists who are working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts.

When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

This book introduces a new approach to environmental sociology, by integrating complexity-informed social science, Marxian ecological theory, and resilience-based human ecology.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today.

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This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterranean.

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health.

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike.

This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country's political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya's history.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

Dieser Band geht dem Stand der Integration und Migration in Deutschland aus einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive nach und behandelt das Thema in komprimierter Form sowie didaktisch aufbereitet.

This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana's spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management.

This volume explores the dynamics of urbanisation in Northeast India.

This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography.

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures.

Home is a complex and multifaceted concept.

`Malcolm Moseley makes an impressive job of "e;cutting through the cackle"e; and has produced a definitive catch-all volume to inform students, practitioners, community activists and local decision makers alike.

Changing concentrations of greenhouse gasses are key to our changing climate.

This book traces the genealogy of 'women's fiction' in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women.

Der Bergbau hat Deutschland über Jahrtausende geprägt – von den ersten prähistorischen Feuersteinminen bis hin zu den imposanten Kohlezechen der Moderne.

The first single-project GIS textbook on the market, Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook, third edition is an excellent resource for students and educators seeking a guide for an advanced, single-project-based course that incorporates GIS across a wide range of disciplines.

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.

Once imagined as a place on the very edge of the world, Greenland is now viewed as being at the epicentre of climate change.

Ground based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) is used to effectively mitigate natural disasters and monitor social infrastructure such as bridges, dams, and airport pavement surfaces.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed.

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product.

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War.

This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

This thought-provoking study measures and critically examines the effects that an averageA population growth rate of 2.

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related.

This title was first published in 2001.

This edited book uses a methodology that includes multidisciplinary collaboration to approach climate issues from several disciplines involved in climate governance.

Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of 'art worlding' as a way of coming to know our organic continuity.