Geography

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.

In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery.

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).

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.