Geography category: 5793 books

Cover of The Arab World
by Allan M. Findlay
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...
Cover of Water Management in Megacities
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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...
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Middle East and Africa

International Dictionary of Historic Places

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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Geographies of Young People

The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity

by Stuart C Aitken
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...
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Sustainable Development

Exploring the Contradictions

by Michael Redclift
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.
Cover of The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies
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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

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...
Cover of Boundary Layer Climates
by T. R. Oke
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.
Cover of Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology
by Gerd Masselink, Michael Hughes, Jasper Knight
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...
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Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection

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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...
Cover of Environment and Society in Ethiopia
by Girma Kebbede
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...
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Cultures and Disasters

Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction

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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?...
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Neoliberal Environments

False Promises and Unnatural Consequences

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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...
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Consuming Cities

The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

by Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog
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...
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