Geography category: 5793 books
by Allan M. Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Disruption following the Gulf War, and the need to satisfy both rising economic aspirations and the Islamic values of the region's peoples, demands fresh examination of development issues in the Arab world.
This introductory text assesses how agricultural, industrial and urban development has evolved...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental dimensions...
Middle East and Africa
International Dictionary of Historic Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Geographies of Young People
The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up.
This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's...
Sustainable Development
Exploring the Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.
The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies
A World of Islands
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
From tourist paradises to immigrant detention camps, from offshore finance centres to strategic military bases, islands offer distinct identities and spaces in an increasingly homogenous and placeless world. The study of islands is important, for its own sake and on its own terms. But so is the notion...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Bioregionalism is the first book to explain the theoretical and practical dimensions of bioregionalism from an interdisciplinary standpoint, focusing on the place of bioregional identity within global politics. Leading contributors from a broad range of disciplines introduce this exciting new concept...
by T. R. Oke
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
by Gerd Masselink, Michael Hughes, Jasper Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of enormous importance to humans and understanding how they are shaped and change is crucial to our future.
Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphologybegins...
Patterns of China's Lost Harmony
A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of years ago. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment...
by Girma Kebbede
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Ethiopia is facing environmental and poverty challenges, and urgently needs effective management of its environmental resources. Much of the Ethiopian landscape has been significantly altered and reshaped by centuries of human activities, and three-quarters of the rural population is living on degraded...
Cultures and Disasters
Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?...
Neoliberal Environments
False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This volume explores the nexus between nature, markets, deregulation and valuation, using theoretically sharp and empirically rich real-world case studies and analyses of actually existing policy from around the world and across a range of resources. In short, it answers the questions: does neoliberalizing...
Consuming Cities
The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.
Consuming Cities examines this impact...