Geography

Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover.

What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st century?

This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries - a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics.

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This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities.

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured.

Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities.

Explore the world with the Reference World Atlas, 10th Edition, with over 640 maps and a wealth of information on the world's 196 nations.

Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global 'flows' of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated.

Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a motivator of travel.

A research-level investigation of the relationship between forests and their host soils and climate.

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie sich transnationale Migrationspraxis auf die personalhoheitliche, die territoriale, die soziale und die politische Zuordnung von Migranten auswirkt.

Concerned primarily with statistical data, this text aims to provide a guide to the nature, uses, availability and limitations of the main data sources for interpreting and undertaking regional studies of economic activity.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been much discussion of the security of borders and ports of entry in the United States and around the world.

This book offers an introduction to remotely sensed image processing and classification in R using machine learning algorithms.

This book presents a comprehensive debate and analysis of existing Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodologies, designed under the auspices of the ESPON programme since the mid-2000s.

In the 1980s feminist geography offered a stimulating new approach to the subject, providing fresh perspectives on traditional areas of the discipline.

This book builds on the latest research on India's partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.

This title was first published in 2003.

A variety of biophysical applications (e.

Destinations across the world are beginning to replace or supplement culture-led development strategies with creative development.

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.

This book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially outside institutional frameworks.

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development.

This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center.

This book provides an institutional interpretation of state-facilitated gentrification in Chengdu, an emerging central city of China.

This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting.

With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.

"e;Given their ethnic diversity, to what extent, and at what cost and benefit to human dignity, can European countries adopt and adapt plural democracy?

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

Wie trägt man globales Denken in die Köpfe der Menschen?

The book provides insights into urban infrastructure debates and discourses in Zimbabwe.

Geography is as old as mankind.

The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects.

Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities.

Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies.

The motivation for this book comes from the apparent inability of existing orthodox location theory to throw light on a series of location-production problems which are typically faced by modem manufacturing and distribution ftrms.

Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century.

This book introduces the issues of the contemporary state of Bihar, India, in terms of its performance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators and the initiatives taken by the central and state governments towards realizing human development.

Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850.