Geography

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity.

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization.

This book explains the roles of the industrial location in vitalizing regional economies in various economic environments created due to the progress of globalization.

,The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life.

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization.

This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.

This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade.

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model.

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment.

This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development.

Governance of Europe's City Regions considers the changing role of the European Union in regional issues, explores how national governments have become increasingly involved at the regional scale and examines the constitutional and political contexts in which regional and local governments operate.

Indian Geography is a vast discipline and India is a large country.

Species acclimatization - the organized introduction of organisms to a new region - is much maligned in the present day.

The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world's economic geographies.

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities.

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how accurate are they?

After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale.

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe.

Pairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding.

This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, including trans-/intergenerational trauma.

Reno: A Base Camp for All SeasonsIdeally positioned between the spectacular peaks and lakes of California s Sierra Nevadas and the vast and varied Great Basin of Nevada, Reno is an unparalleled hub for exploring the natural beauty and grandeur this region offers.

This volume explores the climates, landscapes, ecosystems and hazards that comprise the Mediterranean world.

This book takes a practical approach to human resource management (HRM), providing practising managers, researchers, and students with a framework for developing and implementing human-centred HR strategies.

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa.

Learning/volunteer abroad programmes provide opportunities for cross-cultural understanding, partnership-building, and cooperative development, but there are also significant structural challenges and inequality of opportunity issues that result from these partnerships between host organizations in the Global South and learning/volunteer abroad for development (LVA4D) participants from the Global North.

Remembering Independence explores the commemoration and remembrance of independence following the great wave of decolonisation after the Second World War.

The book examines contemporary urban challenges andopportunities within the context of the traditional Malthusian theory.

Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle.

This book discusses the issue of riverbank erosion and its associated causes, risks and social challenges in the Bengal Delta.

In order to provide water security in the twenty-first century, there is universal agreement that a continuation of current policies and extrapolation of trends is not an option.

Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.

The Mountain Encyclopedia is the first A to Z compendium on all matters related to mountains including geological, geographical, and zoological terms and concepts as well as climbing and historical details.

Understanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism.

Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin provides an overview of the status of science in support of water management in Australia’s largest and most economically important river catchment, and brings together the leading ecologists working in the rivers and wetlands of the Basin.

This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings.

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring.

The skeptic's guide to everything you thought you knew about life outside.

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Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex.

Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments?

This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialogue and learning through everyday life.

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue.

In the last ten to fifteen years, the Latin American and Caribbean region has undergone the most significant transformation of economic policy since World War II.