Regional Geography

In response to the volatile political, social, and economic situation in Southern Africa, this book provides a new framework for the difficult task...

Published in 1999, this is a collection of recent research results by acknowledged researchers in the field of enterprise transformation and indust...

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines ...

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenementsthis book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland betw...

Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through pea...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

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

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in peoples imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is ofte...

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. I...

The general elections held in 2014 in India the largest democracy in the world to elect the 16th Lok Sabha brought in dramatic results. This impo...

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and Otherness....

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege....

Increases in the number and improvements in the quality of arms transferred to sub-Saharan African nations clearly will affect those nations' econo...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions...

Ugandas 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another la...

This book addresses political instability and the role of the military in unstable politics, as well as to class formation, class conflict, and pro...

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second sta...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Irans role as a regional power is more significant than many in the West may realise. The country lies between Central Asia/the Caucasus and the Gu...

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

Over the past decade, several initiatives have been launched to address the major health problems affecting the world's poorest countries, includin...

First published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World development. The general goal of the study is to asse...