Geography

The 1984 Nkomati Accorda bilateral security agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to eliminate guerrilla threats on both sides of a common ...

In order to stimulate the progress in smart textiles, emerging developments need to be identified and selectively strengthened. Hence, this issue r...

First published in 1968: This, the record of the author's first journey into the interior of Africa, established his credentials as an explorer of ...

Published in 1998, in this book the author points out the inadequacies caused by the division between housing research on production and consumptio...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others i...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

Previously published in French by Ãditions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable develop...

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of...

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrializationspecifically, the decline of the textile industry in ...

This title was first published in 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

This title was first published in 2003. This prominent and commanding volume collates the best research available on China's agricultural trade. Cr...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africas most populous and arguably most externally f...

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the reco...

Since the early 1990s, new public and private actors, emphasizing issues such as landscape, nature, environment and food safety, have challenged EU...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grow...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...