Human Geography category: 3213 books
Rural Electrification
Strategies for Distributed Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and even a few hours without lights, televisions, or air conditioning is an ordeal. However, for an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide, the absence...
Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for informed...
by Janet Henshall Momsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
In third world countries gender roles are different from those in western countries. This reality is of utmost interest for development policy makers. planners and project designers from donor countries.
More often than not, development projects, sponsored and implemented by western organizations,...
Dismantling Diasporas
Rethinking the Geographies of Diasporic Identity, Connection and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the important role that geographers can play in interrupting assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The intricate, material and complex ways in which those in...
Latin America Transformed
Globalization and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Praise for the first edition:
'Accomplishes its task to provide readers with a broad multi-disciplinary view on globalization's many impacts on Latin America ... the organization of the collection is logical and thoughtful, and the structural perspectives offered are convincing and powerful....
by David W. Drakakis-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Pacific Asia - from Burma to Papua New Guinea to Japan - is the most dynamic and productive region in the developing world, the result of an economic explosion fuelled by industrial activity. This is where the Green Revolution began, where more women are employed in factory work than anywhere alse;...
by Tim Coles, David Timothy Duval, Gareth Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Around the world every year very many students have to complete dissertations or theses as part of their undergraduate or masters studies in tourism and related subjects. Often this substantial piece of self-directed work is the culmination of their programmes. More than just a means to consolidate...
by Brinley Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of the nineteenth century Atlantic economy and the nature of contemporary migration. In particular the author argues that the assumption that the United States economy was the unmoved mover in the fluctuations of the international economy...
Land and the City
Patterns and Processes of Urban Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Nature, Tourism and Ethnicity as Drivers of (De)Marginalization
Insights to Marginality from Perspective of Sustainability and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book considers de-marginalization attesting that marginal regions have the potential for de-marginalization and are anchored in developmental terms on the following core themes: nature; tourism; ethnicity and general factors including migration. Adding to the discussion on marginality and sustainability...
The Changing World Religion Map
Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book addresses the role and importance of space in the respective fields of the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses how map representations and mapping processes can inform ongoing intellectual debates or open new avenues for scholarly inquiry within and across disciplines, including...
Place Names in Africa
Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times...
by Kirsten Seale
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Using a transnational analytical framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of formal and informal markets and place in globalised cities. It examines how urban markets are situated within social, cultural and media discourses, and within material and symbolic economies. The book addresses...