Geography

This title was first published in 2003.

Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, Volume 1: The Terrestrial Environment, A focuses on isotope hydrology and aqueous geochemistry, as well as an overview of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen isotopes in terrestrial systems.

Information shapes urban spaces in ways that most people rarely stop to consider.

Popular music is a cultural form much rooted in space and place.

This book outlines the current development of geoethical thinking, proposing to the general public reflections and categories useful for understanding the ethical, cultural, and societal dimensions of anthropogenic global changes.

This book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa.

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant.

Friends play a crucial role in international students' lives.

Cities are now home to 55% of the world's population, and that number is rising.

This is an unusual book.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources.

Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Principles and Applications discusses the fundamental principles of atmospheric remote sensing and their applications in different research domains.

Environmental psychology is an increasingly important area of research, focusing on the individual and social factors responsible for many critical human responses to the physical environment.

This book discusses hurricane, rainstorm and storm surge induced riverine and coastal flooding events, and will be of interest to researchers, academics, industry practitioners and other professional involved in earthquake geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, and earthquake engineering and structural dynamics.

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches.

This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a recognisable geographic entity.

Aljunied examines how the Singaporean government developed a comprehensive state-society strategic relationship by 'securitising' vital policy areas because of Singapore's vulnerability as a global city state.

Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes is a collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist over a number of years.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

This book examines the perception of Africa in the global system, tracing Africa's transition from a "e;problem"e; to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world.

The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents determined to maintain their area's preferred cultural and racial identity.

Rural Regeneration in the UK provides an accessible yet critical overview of rural regeneration policy and governance in the UK.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book re-conceptualizes energy justice as a unifying agenda for scholars and practitioners working on the issues faced in the trilemna of energy security, poverty and climate change.

"e;Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner.

A full account of the people of Cuttack and their circumstances was written by Mr.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states, societies and political economy.

This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

Space-time analysis is a rapidly growing research frontier in geography, GIS, and GIScience.

This revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise, accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the developing world and in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe.

This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time.

North Africa differs from the Middle East in several significant ways.

The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.

When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief.

This title was first published in 2002.

This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment.

This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children's participation in NGO programs that centres children's narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25.

Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics.

Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels.

This book focuses on urban morphology and its application to urban conservation and management.

Key features:The first reference book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the biogreography of the Andean regionIncludes lists of the synonyms for each area and examples of the plant and animal taxa characterizing them.

Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices.

This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).