Geography Books

Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia, this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies, examining...

There is an urgent need to address the problems experienced by rapidly growing cities in the developing world. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes...

By linking culture and tradition with socio-economic development, this book breaks new ground in the discourse on development. It highlights the differences between Euro-centric and African culture, where concepts such as capital accumulation,...

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. By identifying the interactions between cross-border capital flow, national regulations and local responses, this book provides a...

While decisions for working overseas are often based on expectations and promises of better jobs, opportunities, economic gains and, eventually, a better future, such assumptions may not always be realized. Focusing on the question of why migrants,...

This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on...

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared. This is a history of two centuries of struggle to bring it under control, to manipulate its naturally variable composition and, as a result, to redraw the boundaries between nature and...

How to Know the Freshwater Fishes, first published in 1957 as part of the "How to Know" Nature Series, provides keys, descriptions, and (for nearly all species) a detailed line-drawing of all the freshwater fish found in the United States. Although some...

The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India's digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state government, and platform providers.Given the limited research on India as a case study, this...

The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas.

This book hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. It offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary...

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative and policy dimensions of COVID - 19 pandemic in the Indian context. The book is divided into four parts. Part I highlights the social narratives from the underprivileged workers,...

This book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on evidence from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book...

This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks.

This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization mean and imply in the Nordic region.

This book focuses on feature extraction methods for optical geospatial data using Machine Learning (ML). It is a practical guide for professionals and graduate students starting a career in information extraction. It explains spatial feature extraction...

Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and...

This book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straight-forward 'functional' reforms - strategy, structure, selection, training - would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely...

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from the perception that this type of activity is unskilled and the importance of acknowledging the expertise...

Presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless navigation based on 3D spaces. Case studies illustrate theories, approaches, and models, including space classification and reconstruction,...

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the...

The book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history. It illustrates the utility of the value chain concept in navigating the complexities of comparative...

This book provides a complete overview of subpixel image processing methods, basic principles, and different subpixel mapping techniques based on single or multi-shift remote sensing images. Real-life applications are a great resource for understanding...

This compelling exploration delves into President Xi Jinping's ambitious efforts to restore China to its historical role as a global leader through innovative economic means. Xi's approach is a unique synthesis of Marxist-Developmentalist ideas, aiming...

With advanced remote sensing and GIS tools, in-depth analyses, and interdisciplinary approaches, this volume studies forest degradation caused by fires, analyses vegetation trends and seasonal changes, vegetation productivity, endemic species, and the...

Geospatial data acquisition and analysis techniques have experienced tremendous growth in the last few years, providing an opportunity to solve previously unsolved environmental- and natural resource-related problems. However, a variety of challenges are...

This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions.

This book explores the intangible human capital which international migrants bring with them and develop further when working and living abroad, drawing on case studies and original data from Mexico-USA and Central Europe. 

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.Located in the lower riparian of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has to face frequent disasters such as floods,...

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood. It highlights the role of sustainable development goals in reducing the impact of climate change on agriculture.

Featuring 60 contributions from leading academics and practitioners, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...