Geography

This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state.

Water is a vital element for the growth of agriculture and plant life.

La presente obra tiene por objeto principal el estudio y análisis del conjunto actual de propuestas de reforma de las instituciones, administraciones y políticas públicas de cara a una mejor cohesión territorial de España.

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West-a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migrationThe economic boom-and the devastation left in its wake-has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes.

This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "e;March to the East.

This is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa.

The 'Aral Sea Encyclopedia' is the first one in the new series of encyclopedias about the seas of the former Soviet Union.

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route.

Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland.

This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("e;Bollywood"e;) and how it recasts literary classics.

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored.

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'.

Advances in high spatial resolution mapping capabilities and the new rules established by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States for the operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) have provided new opportunities to acquire aerial data at a lower cost and more safely versus other methods.

A cutting-edge introduction to coastal wetlands and their applications, for students on related earth and life science courses and researchers.

The devastating impacts of natural disasters not only directly affect humans and infrastructure, but also animals, which may be crucial to the livelihoods of many people.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction about recent state-of-the-art advancements in Open GIS, including Open GIS data, services, software, and libraries for GIS programming.

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.

If you have any interest in information graphics, maps, or history, you know of the seminal flow map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russia by Charles-Joseph Minard, made famous by Edward Tufte, and considered to be one of the most magnificent data graphics ever produced.

Migration - both within and between countries - is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues.

This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.

Climate may be defined as the synthesis of long-term atmospheric conditions characteristic of a particular place.

The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country.

Public Finance: A Normative Theory, Fourth Edition provides a classic text on the normative theory of government policy.

First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography.

This book offers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to place attachment from a European perspective.

This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education.

This edited collection from across the African continent offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives.

Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development.

This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies.

This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

The hard part of problem solving using GIS analysis is the selection of the proper tools.

During the 2015 and 2016 refugee crisis the EU called on the Member States to engage in protection burden-sharing.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

GIS and Geostatistical Techniques for Groundwater Science provides a detailed synthesis of the application of GIS and geostatistics in groundwater studies.

Since Olufsen and Schulz published their monographs on the Pamirs in 1904 and 1914, respectively, this is the first book to deal with the history, anthropology and recent social and economic development of the Pamiri people in Gorno-Badakhshan, Eastern Tajikistan.

This book is a first in its own way.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary assessment of the major verticals of Blue Economy relevant to the mangrove ecosystem in Indian Sundarbans, which is a deltaic complex at the apex of Bay of Bengal.

There are many books about teaching in Geography, but this is the first dealing specifically with Pedagogic Research, its methods and practices.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.