Geography

This title was first published in 2001. The dynamics of New Firm Formation (NFF) are central to the phenomenon of economic growth and development. ...

A comprehensive review of the press in South Africa since 1976the year the Soweto riots triggered nationwide protests against white dominationthis ...

This title was first published in 2003. With the increasing use of GIS in industrialised and developing countries, the availability of spatial data...

In terms of statistics, GIS offers many connections. With GIS, data are gathered, displayed, summarized, examined, and interpreted to discover patt...

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenge...

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...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

Radar Hydrology: Principles, Models, and Applications provides graduate students, operational forecasters, and researchers with a theoretical frame...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracti...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

This book explores what is a new and controversial policy of relying on private actors rather than on government organizations to foster economic g...

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation cartographic abstraction a material modality of thought and experience that i...

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, an...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the c...

Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the market economies of the region usually de...

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, wh...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and...