Regional Geography

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...