Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form.
This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Capitals of Punk tells the story of Franco-American circulation of punk music, politics, and culture, focusing on the legendary Washington, DC hardcore punk scene and its less-heralded counterpart in Paris.
The Baltic macroregion is a platform for the development of different areas of international cooperation, which are an important factor affecting the socioeconomic growth of the region's states.
This book focuses on the survey technology, post-processing technology, mapping technology and scientific application of the submarine topography and geomorphology in detail.
This edited collection introduces conceptual innovations that critically engage with understanding refugee movements as part of the broader category of 'poor people's movements'.
Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "e;National Affairs"e; and "e;Jewish Communal Affairs"e; and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population.
This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state, focusing on three European national parliaments, namely the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, and the Croatian unicameral parliament.
Au cours des quatre derniers siècles, l'archipel guadeloupéen a été affecté par de nombreuses manifestations météorologiques paroxysmiques (dépressions, tempêtes tropicales, cyclones, ouragans, etc.
Examining the evolving responses to immigration, migrant integration and diversity of substate governments in Quebec, Flanders and Brussels, and Scotland, Fiona Barker explores what happens when the 'new' diversity arising from immigration intersects with the 'old' politics of substate nationalism in decentralized, multinational societies.
According to UN estimates, approximately nearly half of the world's population now lives in cities and that figure is expected to rise to almost 70% by 2050.
An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala.
This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.
In the past few years the United States has experienced a series of disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which have severely taxed and in many cases overwhelmed responding agencies.
In the past few years the United States has experienced a series of disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which have severely taxed and in many cases overwhelmed responding agencies.
Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types of data can provide information on changes in the Earth's surface and atmosphere that are critical for forecasting and responding to human welfare issues, such as disease outbreaks, food shortages, and floods.
The book "e;Building Climate Resilient Communities along Africa's Coasts: The Role of Mangroves"e; highlights the crucial role mangrove ecosystems play in enhancing climate resilience for coastal communities in Africa, which face rising sea levels, intensified storms, and habitat loss.
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time.
Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types of data can provide information on changes in the Earth's surface and atmosphere that are critical for forecasting and responding to human welfare issues, such as disease outbreaks, food shortages, and floods.
In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.
Esta obra está diseñada para facilitar el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje, de docentes estudiantes y profesionales de la topografía y ciencias afines; de tal manera que puede ser utilizado como texto guía de clase o en el desarrollo de proyectos topográficos.
This book provides a cross-regional investigation of the role of citizenship and ethnicity in migration, political incorporation, and political transnationalism in the age of globalization, exploring the political realities of Dutch Antilleans in the Netherlands and Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan.
In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.
In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.
Explorant les problèmes environnementaux sous l'angle du développement durable, en s'appuyant notamment sur des données originales et des outils performants utilisés dans le cadre des sciences de l'environnement, ce livre met en exergue à travers des cas révélateurs l'impact des activités anthropiques sur le milieu naturel.
De tout temps, les hommes ont identifié des lieux géographiques comme sacrés, ont sacralisé des lieux et les ont aménagés de façon à ce qu'ils jouent un rôle d'intermédiaire entre le monde terrestre et leurs dieux.
Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'.
Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social life.
La reformulación de los conceptos de patrimonio –que se ha ampliado notablemente– o de paisaje –que incluye la percepción de la población– despierta un notable interés, especialmente cuando estos se vinculan al desarrollo territorial.
This book deals with three different subjects: geography, social media and religion equally to discuss e-religiosity in terms of screenscapes that shaped digital socialization processes wherein the role of digital devices in general and smartphones in particular are considered crucial and critical.
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.
Par-delà les crises et les conflits, les questions économiques et le risque démographique et migratoire, les questions climatiques et l'avenir de l'eau demeurent les grands problèmes qui vont sous-tendre la sécurité collective et individuelle en Méditerranée.