Regional Geography

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...