Geography

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

The concepts of community consultation and participation have come to dominate academic and policy debate about urban regeneration partnerships. Ho...

This comprehensive study outlines the current transformation in agriculture and its effect on the demography, development, and economy of the Peopl...

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and develo...

Through a socio-semiotic analysis of promotional materials used by both producers of quality products and their support organizations, this book in...

The historical controversy over South Africa's policy of apartheid has not been without effect on that country's participation and status in the in...

This book explores the issues of land, labor, and cultural nationalism of Kikuyu women; differences between women's actions and men's; and differen...

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

This book provides some arguments concerning the nature of African militaries. It focuses on the broader issue of the relationships between civilia...

Originally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world, increasingly ...

This title was first published in 2000. The UNDP announced on 29th July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is emerging in the form...

This title was first published in 2003. Nurul Islam, currently head of economic and social policy at the FAO/UN and a key advisor at the Internatio...

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular em...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

This title was first published in 2003. Schumpeter first put forward the premise that the incessant turbulence of an economy in motion, carrying ou...

This Expo book brings together leading academic and policymaker experts to reflect on the significant challenges faced by lagging regions in partic...

First published in 1999, the essays collected in the present volume derive from an interest in South Africa and its economy which goes back to the ...

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus ...

The ambit of Buddhist studies reflects not only the spiritual and philosophical domain of Buddhism but also a symbiotic relationship between the mo...

Economic geographers have always argued that space is key to understanding the economy, that the processes of economic growth and development do no...

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agr...

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof. It is of strate...

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic. It presents state-of-the-art thi...

This title was first published in 2003. This volume advances our understanding of how Southern Africa is currently being reconfigured, critically e...