Geography

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission.

Spatial information users and providers are increasingly concerned about the legal implications relating to the use and dissemination of geographic information for which there are no right or wrong methods of practice, and no one source of information.

This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment.

This volume examines the trends and patterns of journalists' harassment in Africa and assesses the policy interventions and protection mechanisms that are put into place in the region.

This title, first published in 1973, covers the period of 1959 to 1968.

Title first published in 2003.

Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory politics.

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU).

The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China's reform process and for the world more generally.

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.

David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the ship Sir John Franklin sailed on during his doomed 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage to Asia.

This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation.

This book fills a gap in sociological theory surrounding how we engage with digital maps like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap (OSM).

Possibly the greatest change confronting the practitioner and student of remote sensing in the period since the first edition of this text appeared in 1986 has been the enormous improvement in accessibility to image processing technology.

First published in 1999, this volume applies Professor Michael Porter's diamond framework (1990) to the Turkish glass, construction, leather clothes, automobile and flat steel industries.

This new Handbook unites cartographic theory and praxis with the principles of cartographic design and their application.

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina.

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the technologies and processes involved in energy generation through waste treatment.

What does imagination do for our perception of the world?

This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years.

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power.

Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments.

This volume presents papers from the biennial International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC), the world's leading event in the field of atmospheric research using lidar.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism?

How does one determine how similar two maps are?

Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions is based on recent and past climate variabilities data gathered through satellites and spatial-temporal analysis to explain the role of global warming on cryosphere regions such as high-latitude Himalaya, Arctic and Antarctic regions, and the surrounding Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean.

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations.

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day.

Was Napoleon the 'heir' of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles?

This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe.

Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape.

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.

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The large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins.

This book includes invited contributions presenting the latest research on the oceanography and environment of the Red Sea.

Providing for the multiple and varying needs of today's growing populations in the metropolises is an important form of commercial activity which entails a great deal of organization based on the twin factors of demand and supply.

Some ethnic communities receive generous material rewards for their political support, whilst others only receive very modest payoffs.

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.

Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology - the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region.

This book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them.

One of the ongoing problems researchers in geography and GIS have is studying data that is inherently spatial over a long period of time.

Dieses Lehr- und Übungsbuch richtet sich an Sie als Studierende und praktisch tätige Fachleute der Geodäsie, der Geomatik, der Vermessung, der Ingenieurmathematik und verwandter Fachrichtungen.

Using monuments and ruins by way of illustration, this fascinating book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek classical iconography for the Western world.

As one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy since the 1950s, tourism has proved to be a complicated phenomenon, unlike any other economic producer.

This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social stability in Hong Kong.

This book is designed to show how ecotourism theory can be put into practice by exploring innovation, program applications, and research-supported case studies in ecotourism.

This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.