Geography

Americans believe economic opportunity is as fundamental a right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb.

The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places.

Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order.

Management geography explores the spatial characteristics of management-related issues, especially of firms.

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue.

This book is a comprehensive critical re-reading of Nayantara Sahgal's oeuvre.

This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation.

This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts.

Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography.

This book is about how local public transport can be made a less unacceptable alternative to the private car than it is now.

Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble.

This book presents both updated and new measurements on water resources from selective pilot areas form the Middle East.

First Published in 1992.

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography.

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This book examines and clarifies key aspects of regional branding with the special focus of inter-regional brands.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region.

Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organization of the Swazi, wiith special reference to the aristocratic structure of their society and the way in which birth and rank determine social relationships and activities.

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks.

This book interprets the meanings of the uses, regulations, and representations of the ocean undertaken by the state and other societal power sources in modern Taiwan between 1949 and 2016.

This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way.

François Gerber innove dans l’analyse des conséquences humaines et patrimoniales de la tempête Xynthia.

The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands' adaptive capacity to climate change.

Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani- sation of our world.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit der Frage, wie in pädagogischen Praktiken soziale Differenzen und damit verknüpfte Ungleichheitsverhältnisse (re)produziert werden.

Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries.

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response.

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

This book will provide a comprehensive discussion of groundwater sustainability, including what it is, how its definition has changed over time, why traditional assessments of it are wrong, how assessments of it are ideally multidisciplinary efforts recognizing that policy is more controlling of outcomes than science, and why achieving it is difficult once pumping exceeds sustainable levels of pumping.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

In Community Benefits, Jovanna P.

Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories brings together intellectuals from a variety of fields, backgrounds, generations, and continents to deepen and reinvigo-rate the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies.

China has been subject to floods, droughts and heat waves for millennia; these hazards are not new.

While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then.

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease.

European countries, including the DIALOG countries, have faced a major de- graphic change and transition in the last thirty years.

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them.

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 traces the evolution of Singapore's parks system, from colonial to present times.

The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography.

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

This Companion presents a distinctive approach to environmental planning by: situating the debate in its social, cultural, political and institutional context; being attentive to depth and breadth of discussions; providing up-to-date accounts of the contemporary practices in environmental planning and their changes over time; adopting multiple theoretical and analytical lenses and different disciplinary approaches; and drawing on knowledge and expertise of a wide range of leading international scholars from across the social science disciplines and beyond.

The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy.

This book reviews the state of the art in algorithmic approaches addressing the practical challenges that arise with hyperspectral image analysis tasks, with a focus on emerging trends in machine learning and image processing/understanding.