Geography category: 5793 books
Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes
‘Win-Win' Solutions for the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states. No such actions have brought the world closer...
Himalayan Mobilities
An Exploration of the Impact of Expanding Rural Road Networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The goals of this book are to update information on the effects of rural road development, both in Nepal and globally, explain the environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of expanding rural road networks in the Nepalese Himalaya, and to promote further studies on rural road development...
Geographies of Difference
Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state,...
by Nas
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Africa
Diversity and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest...
by Anthony O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to individual...
Navigating Ethnicity
Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent...
by A.J. Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
The new edition of the atlas (first published as The Atlas of Apartheid) presents a comprehensive introduction and detailed analysis of the spatial impact of apartheid in South Africa. It covers the period of the National Party Government of 1948 to 1994, and emphasises the changes and the continuing...
by T.A. Broadbent
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book was first published in 1977.
Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policy, Performance and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components...
Place, Policy and Politics
Do Localities Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies.
The key aspects of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction to this topic. It begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the...
City, Region and Regionalism
A geographical contribution to human ecology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book was first published in 1947.
by M. Krampen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book was first published in 1979.