Geography

John Rennie Short critically explores the implications of demographic change from a social and economic perspective and considers what this means for public policy.

Get the most informative paddling guide to the area, featuring 50 of the best routes for canoeing and kayaking.

Planificar el crecimiento urbano es mucho más que un requisito o un asunto técnico, es un acto de responsabilidad territorial con los habitantes de hoy y del futuro.

The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The bothy embrace is addictive' ADAM NICOLSON'Will have you reaching for your boots' CAL FLYN.

England's coastline encompasses a huge diversity of landscapes, both natural and man-made.

Based on a major research project undertaken by a team at the Institute of Market Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council of China, a project which included extensive survey research, and involved also many international scholars including researchers at the World Economic Forum Research Center and OECD, this book explores the possible future trajectories for urbanization in China.

First published in 1981, Introductory Spatial Analysis uses ideas from dimensional analysis and stochastic process theory to provide a consistent, logical framework for map analysis.

Lunar explorations have received increasing attention in recent years with tremendous application values, including using the Moon as a remote sensing platform for Earth observation.

First published in 1981, Introductory Spatial Analysis uses ideas from dimensional analysis and stochastic process theory to provide a consistent, logical framework for map analysis.

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects.

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population.

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new forms of collective movements, ranging from anti austerity protests to migrant struggles and anticolonial demonstrations.

This new book analyzes the exploration and sustainable valorization of natural resources from the arid zones, putting special emphasis on the challenges that the industry faces in an era of sustainable development and ecological conservation programs.

This book is about oil and gas dynamics in the world's newest petro-powers-in-the-making, and the attempts to balance this against the impact of climate change.

Across six of the seven continents on which cricket is played, there are some remarkable cricket grounds.

This book is about oil and gas dynamics in the world's newest petro-powers-in-the-making, and the attempts to balance this against the impact of climate change.

The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies.

The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts.

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.

With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis.

Fully revised and updated for its third edition, this book presents the definitive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar.

Advances in signal and image processing for remote sensing have been tremendous in recent years.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

Advances in signal and image processing for remote sensing have been tremendous in recent years.

There are many 'how-to' books on writing for academics; none of these, however, relate specifically to the discipline of geography.

Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), The Coast Road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today.

As technology continues to saturate modern society, agriculture has started to adopt digital computing and data-driven innovations.

Geographical science investigates the evolving character of the Earth's biophysical and constructed environment in the past, present and future.

Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they ever have been.

The complete, dramatic story of Union Terrace Gardens has never before been told in one volume.

This book represents an attempt to bring into one account the story of European expansion in North America down to 1783.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the 4th International Conference GIRE3D - Participatory and Integrated Management of Water Resources in Arid Zones, November 23th-25th , Help at Laayoune - Morocco, co-organized by Moroccan Committee of the International Hydraulics Association (CM-AIH) and Hydraulic basin agency of Sakia El Hamra and Oued Eddahab (ABHSHOD).

This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food security.

Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and it discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world.

Le développement des villes africaines pose avec acuité la question de la gestion de la salubrité, à laquelle Rufisque n'échappe pas, au point de se voir coller l'étiquette de la cité la plus insalubre du Sénégal.

Photographer Dominic Greyer has spent the last twenty years roaming the British landscape in search of the country's most unusual placenames.

The explosive findings within this book are history-changing.

This edited book focuses on the intersection of return migration and crises in non-Western countries.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies.

This report explores the benefits of Asia and the Pacific's coral reefs, outlines the myriad risks they face from climate change, pollution, and development, and considers how nature-positive investments can finance their protection and restoration.

On the world map, macro-regions or global regions have gradually emerged, with varying degrees of success and following different trajectories.

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole.

There are many GIS products for smart cities to implement smart city projects or activities.

Die Borealis – die größte Waldzone der Erde – ist höchst bedeutsam für das Weltklima, birgt enorme Rohstoff- und Energieressourcen, ist äußerst dünn besiedelt, wird allerdings in der Öffentlichkeit nur relativ wenig wahrgenommen.