Regional Geography

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

In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought th...

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the worlds largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Systemat...

This book is a critical study of the evolution and conduct of military government as well as civil-military relations in Nigeria since 1970, examin...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

This volume studies the outcomes of the two-way flow of investments and people between China and India, and Southeast Asia. These cross-border flow...

This book, based on twenty-three years of research, field work, and contacts with both Malians and non-Malians familiar with Mali, provides an over...

Regional security institutions play a significant role in shaping the behavior of existing and rising regional powers by nurturing security norms a...

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent sys...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

In order to analyse configurations of power that transcend the territorial trap, the Caucasus is an excellent case in point. Its past and present e...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969...

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introducti...

In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN ...

This book aims to analyze Lesotho's prospects for economic advancement, and examines the influence of the policies and economic development of Sout...

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization tha...

The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from...

The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, crite...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban...

De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusin...

Popular war on drugs rhetoric postulates drug use in the West as the product of the drug production and trafficking roles of non-western societies ...

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the su...

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our unders...

This book looks at the complexity of the topic of industrial site planning. Levels and actors are understood and discussed in terms of their mutual...

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practiti...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Indias social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and exp...

This is the first book to examine Britains geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British i...

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation be...

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. They add...

This volume promotes the use of Historical GIS (H-GIS) for both education and research. It consists of a coherent set of chapters that allow reader...

This book is an attempt to present the inside story of the Telangana movement that developed due to historical reasons. The movement, in this work,...