Human geography Books

Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on Roles of Government and Market scrutinizes the main features of the Taiwanese development experience under five interrelated themes and domains: Outward-orientation vs. ...

The period from the late eighteenth century until about 1840 coincided with major changes in educational theories and practices, especially for girls, and this book uses needlework maps and globes to chart a broader discussion of women's geographic...

This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of...

This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various countries, give a review of the subject which provides a...

This book examines the works of the outstanding makers of modern geography and demonstrates the consistency of idea and purpose in their work. Geography as an explicitly defined field of knowledge is more than two thousand years old, but as a university...

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather...

First published in 1984. It is widely acknowledged that rural-urban differences and interrelationships play an important role in the development process. Some theorists believe they are a primary cause of continuing poverty in poor nations. This volume...

This book follows the travels of Nanay, a testimonial theatre play developed from research with migrant domestic workers in Canada, as it was recreated and restaged in different places around the globe. This work examines how Canadian migration policy is...

This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades...

The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions...

As the material anchors of globalization, North America's global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures,...

This book, originally published in 1986, shows the importance of geography in international power politics and shows how geopolitical thought influences policy-making and action. It considers the various elements within international power politics such...

Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale,...

How can Turkey increase its medium- and long-term growth potential? Despite episodes of fast growth, this has become a vital question for the Turkish economy, in order to avoid being stuck in a middle-income trap. There has been an increase in the number...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War. The book describes the changes from an agriculturally-dominated countryside to...

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of 'the urban'...

This book is a revision of the author's original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields. The author expands on the...

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where 'alternative' food practices are increasingly visible. Concerns that were once exclusively the domain of activist movements motivated by environmental,...

This book brings together the most current thinking about the Anthropocene in the field of Environmental Political Theory ('EPT'). It displays the distinctive contribution EPT makes to the task of thinking through what 'the environment' means in this...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis who occupy a unique place in Indian history. The Sidis comprise scattered communities of people of African...

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow...

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

Ethiopia is facing environmental and poverty challenges, and urgently needs effective management of its environmental resources. Much of the Ethiopian landscape has been significantly altered and reshaped by centuries of human activities, and...

The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a 'could-be' risk management approach. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster...

The U.S. Government's accumulated national debt and unfunded liabilities in social security and Medicare could be pushing the country towards a fiscal crisis. How could such a crisis be avoided? If a crisis does strike, how might it be dealt with? What...

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture,...

This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments,...

    The objective of macroeconomic behavioral methods is to control the short run behavior of an country's economy development.  Is it useful to be applied to assist developing countries' economic development.  If we think of...

  In first part , I shall explain whether macro or micro economic method is more easily to predict or measure when and how and why the developing country's consumer shopping desire to be rised or reduced. Can we apply macroeconomic behavioral...

      This book concerns how living economy influences our future living experiences and consumption behaviors. It concerns whether wars can impact economy threat to influence consumption behaviors and environment protection...

    How AI technology influence productivities and service performance ?  Whether it can raise productivities and improve service performance?This book aims to explain why and how future artificial intelligent technology ( big data...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Kulturgeographische Aspekte Großbritanniens,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 2-3, Universität zu Köln (Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Tagesexkursionen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ruhrgebiet gewinnt...

Die Autorin analysiert ausländischer Erfahrungswerte aus Schweden und den USA im Hinblick auf Anwendung von Kapazitätsmechanismen. Ziel ist an einen internationalen Kriterien-Vergleich anzuknüpfen und dieses Modell für den deutschen Strommarkt abzuwägen.

Ein großer Teil der öffentlichen Leistungserbringer wird mittlerweile als privatrechtliche Gesellschaften in einem wettbewerbsorientierten Umfeld geführt. Da bis dato empirische Erkenntnisse zur Steuerung dieser kommunalen Beteiligungen fehlen, setzt...

People generally think they understand the environment and how humans use natural resources, but these ideas are often understood only superficially. Instead of thinking, I should turn off the light, we should be asking, "Why should I turn off the...

Inter-American Acquaintances is a book written by Charles Lyon Chandler in 1917. It is a collection of essays and articles about the author's travels and experiences in various countries in Central and South America, including Mexico, Cuba, Panama, and...

The topic of Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century. This book derived from the first post-2000 national conference on Applied Demography, held in San Antonio, Texas,...

This book offers a cross-European analysis of urban and regional strategies of reconciling welfare and competitiveness. It develops an understanding of the strategy challenge to reconcile competitiveness with cohesion, and provides an analysis of cities...

The latest edition of this renowned textbook explores the states and regimes of the MENA. Presenting heavily revised, fully updated chapters contributed by the world's leading experts, it analyzes the historical trajectory, political institutions,...

""A Geography of Worcester County"" is a historical book written by James Gordon Carter in 1830. The book provides a comprehensive account of the geography, history, and culture of Worcester County, Massachusetts. It describes the physical features of...

 The objective of macroeconomic behavioral methods is to control the short run behavior of an country's economy development.  Is it useful to be applied to assist developing countries' economic development.  If we think of stability as a...

 This book is concerned how to apply behavioral economy method to  predict consumer behavior. This book divides two parts, first part introduce what is behavioral economy asn second part explains how environment influences consumer behavior...

The book Decoding Indian Economy covers various aspects of the Indian Economy including its problems along with suggested solutions. This book is a compilation of research done by students who were sensitized by news articles related to the contemporary...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,3, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Vor- und...

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Economy and Industry, Adekunle Ajasin University, language: English, abstract: This study engaged in a thorough and analytical historical research on the activities of the Ondo...

This book consists of a set of puzzles, quiz and activities which the author designed for use at a monthly social event organised by St. Michael’s, Church, Budbrooke, in the Community Centre in the part of the parish known as Chase Meadow. People...