Regional Geography

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and ...

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How Afr...

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.Given the...

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for ...

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource ri...

The year 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Land Act in South Africa which legalised the violent dispossession and alienation of the Afr...

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux...

The paths of African states have diverged markedly since the termination of colonial rule. Nevertheless, Ghana, the first African state to achieve ...

The role of the European Union (EU) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and its near abroad has attracted much scholarly attention ov...

Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to ...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

This title was first published in 2002.Banking reform lies at the heart of economic reform in China and is central to sustaining the countries high...

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the Christian Oriental fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.It starts with the architecture,...

The new mobilities paradigm which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human ...

The accumulation of surplus petrofunds by some Arab countries, far exceeding the present absorptive capacities of their economies, has given rise t...

This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particul...

Libraries in today's global world have emerged as key players in building a culture for reading in communities while enhancing the literacy develop...

Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be a high profile and high risk activity attracting media coverage and stimulatin...

Challenge to Imperialism is the first comprehensive analysis of the Zimbabwean struggle for independence in its international context. Based on ext...

Using INDEPTH's multi-site network to provide new demographic insights into population variables, this book provides a new perspective on migration...

This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural pe...

This book aims to provide a sociologically and anthropologically informed history of the Somali people. It seeks to elucidate the circumstances of ...

First published in 1997, this volume is intended to make a contribution to both the literature and the contentious debate on the relationship betwe...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

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...