Geography

This book examines Chad's internal weakness and the degree and nature of its foreign involvements. It focuses on Chad's continuing dilemma that the...

The fifth Millennium Development target of reducing infant mortality by two thirds by the year 2015 can only be achieved if mortality due to malari...

GIS for Critical Infrastructure Protection highlights the GIS-based technologies that can be used to support critical infrastructure protection and...

This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the natur...

Aquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health. They are natural biological filters in freshwater and estuarine we...

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relatio...

Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the episte...

This book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation...

Precise and accurate localization is one of the fundamental scientific and engineering technologies needed for the applications enabling the emerge...

Young people, and in particular children, have typically been marginalised in geopolitical research, positioned as too young to understand or relat...

Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be ei...

Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily...

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

Masculinities and Place bring together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new domains of intere...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a partic...

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoy...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book...

Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons an...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between communi...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...