Regional Geography

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,...

India and the South-East Asia are typical case studies of interest for students of development economics. These countries have served as role model...

The interest in minority protection emerged during the period of democratic transition, particularly of ethnically segmented postcommunist societie...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to...