Human geography Books

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...

This thesis analyses how and why culture and geography influence the allocation and licensing of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum in different nations. Based on a broad comparative study of 235 countries, an inter-disciplinary approach is used to...

2009 reprint of 1932 edition. Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the old New York Sun. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked...

Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay...

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street...

Public art is produced and 'lived' within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional claims on the...

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries. This book...

""Songs for British Workmen"" is a collection of songs written by Benjamin Gough in 1876. The book contains over 50 songs that were specifically written for the working class of Britain during the Industrial Revolution. The songs cover a variety of...

In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too...

The collapse of communism in Central, East and South-East Europe (CESEE) led to great hopes for the region and for Europe. A quarter of a century on, the picture is mixed: in many CESEE countries, the transformation process is incomplete, and the...

This groundbreaking book delves deep into the history of AI, the major techniques and algorithms of machine learning and deep learning, and the critical role of data sources and processing in these disciplines. It covers a range of AI applications in...

This book tries to root its exploration of China's urbanization in the very local realities of China from the perspective of urban geography and international urbanization theory. The research is of large scale, full process and boasts the feature of...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to the increasing...

Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic...