Geography

Remote sensing and geographical information science (GIS) have advanced considerably in recent years.

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent.

Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions offers recommendationsfor future research to improve understanding of how changes in human populationsaffect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation,urban development, and development of coastal zones.

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives.

A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who traveled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience.

This book presents the spatio-temporal and gender appraisal human development index (HDI) of all the 237 Panchayat Samitis of Rajasthan.

This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations.

In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis.

In the last ten years, while GATT and (later) WTO were actively advocating the doctrine of free trade, the world witnessed unprecedented formation of regional trading blocs.

" Hic sunt leones " - " ici sont les lions " - écrivait-on, sur les atlas anciens de l'Afrique, comme si cet espace-là était, plus qu'un autre, voué à l'investissement de l'imagination.

Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections - connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes.

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

'An urgent and extraordinary book.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

With the emergence of a truly global marketplace, regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment, and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest.

The dead are gone.

Schätzungsweise 80% aller verfügbaren Daten haben geographischen Bezug.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding.

Ornamental Lakes traces the history of lakes in England, from their appearance in the early eighteenth century, through their development in the 1750s, and finally to their decline in the nineteenth century.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

This edited volume gathers the proceedings of the Symposium GIS Ostrava 2016, the Rise of Big Spatial Data, held at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, March 16-18, 2016.

This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities.

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement.

Researching Internal Migration is a comprehensive guide for researchers and professionals to study internal migration in developing and underdeveloped economies.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand.

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the 'global city' but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million.

Considered the most significant recent agrarian movement in Mexico, the 1994 EZLN uprising by the indigenous peasantry of Chiapas attracted world attention.

Land degradation and desertification are amongst the most severe threats to human welfare and the environment, as they affect the livelihoods of some 2 billion people in the worlds drylands, and they are directly connected to pressing global environmental problems, such as the loss of biological diversity or global climate change.

British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

The elasmobranch fishes include the living sharks, skates and rays that are important members of nearly all marine ecosystems.

This book examines the traditional assumptions made by academics and professionals alike that have embedded sociopolitical biases that impede practice.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book explores what happened to the homelands - in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace - after the fall of apartheid.

Religious Pilgrimages in the Mediterranean World examines the evolution of recent theoretical and methodological trends in pilgrimage studies.

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world.

This book discusses the geological history of Britain from the early geological formation of the British Isles, through to the variety of currently visible rock formations and ensuing natural landscapes.

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective.

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europe's most renowned social scientists working in the field of fisheries management and policy.

This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines.

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism?

In addition to his achievements as a doctor, meteorologist, and cartographer, Richardson was the first great naturalist to study the North American Arctic.

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place.

This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country.

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's northeast coastline on March 11, 2011.

Written by experts, Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology provides comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field.

After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations.