A systematic rethinking of financialization, which explores how financial capitalism – especially the asset management industry – is organised, how the locus of power has shifted from public to private authority, and how its consequences have defined...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intersections between children, childhood, youth and the future and provides critical understandings of how the future is imagined, conceptualised, enlisted, used, negotiated and manipulated to serve diverse political ends a...Loe edasi...
This book considers the specific features of forced migration research, which pose unique challenges when analysing data, and offers a range of analysis tools from discourse analysis. Drawing on real-world case studies from around the world, but par...Loe edasi...
Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt. The tourist is increasingly interested in the region as a source of mate...Loe edasi...
This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese mountain-water-city systems...Loe edasi...
Can Kenya be like Singapore, whose geography positions her as the gateway to Asian markets? Must Ghana strive to imitate Japan while tolerating the silent killer of chronic air pollution that causes 16,000-30,000 premature deaths every year? Do Afri...Loe edasi...
Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s glob...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
Cities across the world are facing a convergence of environmental risks, from flooding and extreme heat events to air pollution and water scarcity. These threats are increasingly uneven in their impacts and deeply shaped by local geography. This b...Loe edasi...
This book examines the key development challenges facing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean and the Pacific, focusing on livelihoods and state security and stability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....Loe edasi...
Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Climate and Biodiversity in Infrastructure proposes a high-level conceptual framework to holistically capture how integrated climate and biodiversity action is...Loe edasi...
This book pays special attention to municipal variations within the same prefecture, presenting a completely unique approach from what other researchers have pursued. Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan)...Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly fo...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores two previously separate strands of research: socio-technical imaginaries, and the production and contestation of space. It addresses the controversial role of emerging and speculative technologies in debates on susta...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienc...Loe edasi...
As cities grow and demands increase, continuing to build is unavoidable. Continuing to build in the same way, however, is not. This book challenges the dangerous trajectory of extractive, growth-centred practices within of the built environment indu...Loe edasi...
This book provides an account of the third, last and longest civil revolt of independent Sudan. The December revolution was a continuing process that survived the mi...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Despite decades of rural-to-urban transformation in China, much of the literature still treats villages and cities as distinct entities. This book reframes rural-urban transformation as an integrated process, examining administrative practices, im...Loe edasi...
This book explores the multispecies dimensions of First Nations burning practices and shows how these integrate with Aboriginal ontologies to resist the ideological and structural violence of colonisation....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the experience and achievements of Chinas demography development, explores its internal laws, and looks forward to its future trends. It summarizes the achievements, experience, gains and losses of various branches of demography...Loe edasi...
This book is an urgent invitation, provocation and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031962196)
The book will be different and new in relation to the available books in the market, such as Urban Green utilizing Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning in relation to Creating Smart Citie...Loe edasi...
This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intersections between children, childhood, youth and the future and provides critical understandings of how the future is imagined, conceptualised, enlisted, used, negotiated and manipulated to serve diverse political ends a...Loe edasi...
This book considers the specific features of forced migration research, which pose unique challenges when analysing data, and offers a range of analysis tools from discourse analysis. Drawing on real-world case studies from around the world, but par...Loe edasi...
Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt. The tourist is increasingly interested in the region as a source of mate...Loe edasi...
This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese mountain-water-city systems...Loe edasi...
Can Kenya be like Singapore, whose geography positions her as the gateway to Asian markets? Must Ghana strive to imitate Japan while tolerating the silent killer of chronic air pollution that causes 16,000-30,000 premature deaths every year? Do Afri...Loe edasi...
Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s glob...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
Cities across the world are facing a convergence of environmental risks, from flooding and extreme heat events to air pollution and water scarcity. These threats are increasingly uneven in their impacts and deeply shaped by local geography. This b...Loe edasi...
This book examines the key development challenges facing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean and the Pacific, focusing on livelihoods and state security and stability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....Loe edasi...
Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Climate and Biodiversity in Infrastructure proposes a high-level conceptual framework to holistically capture how integrated climate and biodiversity action is...Loe edasi...
This book pays special attention to municipal variations within the same prefecture, presenting a completely unique approach from what other researchers have pursued. Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan)...Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly fo...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores two previously separate strands of research: socio-technical imaginaries, and the production and contestation of space. It addresses the controversial role of emerging and speculative technologies in debates on susta...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienc...Loe edasi...
As cities grow and demands increase, continuing to build is unavoidable. Continuing to build in the same way, however, is not. This book challenges the dangerous trajectory of extractive, growth-centred practices within of the built environment indu...Loe edasi...
This book provides an account of the third, last and longest civil revolt of independent Sudan. The December revolution was a continuing process that survived the mi...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Despite decades of rural-to-urban transformation in China, much of the literature still treats villages and cities as distinct entities. This book reframes rural-urban transformation as an integrated process, examining administrative practices, im...Loe edasi...
This book explores the multispecies dimensions of First Nations burning practices and shows how these integrate with Aboriginal ontologies to resist the ideological and structural violence of colonisation....Loe edasi...
This book sorts out the experience and achievements of Chinas demography development, explores its internal laws, and looks forward to its future trends. It summarizes the achievements, experience, gains and losses of various branches of demography...Loe edasi...
This book is an urgent invitation, provocation and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031962196)
The book will be different and new in relation to the available books in the market, such as Urban Green utilizing Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning in relation to Creating Smart Citie...Loe edasi...
This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...Loe edasi...
A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the planes operational history....Loe edasi...
This book explores how modern cities are transforming through smart technologies and circular economy principles. The opening chapters introduce the concept of the smart city, explaining digital infrastructure, data-driven decision making, and conne...Loe edasi...
This book addresses an urgent need to rethink the future of human settlement in the context of significant economic, social and environmental changes, arguing that we must look beyond our current paradigm of sustainability to envision a continuously...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of LGBTQ+ centers and organizations in urban areas, a phenomenon that began in North American and Western European cities four decades ago and now flourishes around the world.It analyzes two diffe...Loe edasi...
This book is about how children become competent people who understand and can act on and even transform the world. Its novel framework of 4A agency shows how children participate in making as audience, assistant, apprentice and artisan in makersp...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
This book covers topics on human and physical Geography in Canada. This book forms part of the Springer-Nature series of Country studies of Physical and Human Geography. The audience is junior university students, journalists, other professionals,...Loe edasi...
This open access book offers innovations in how sustainability is studied, taught, and practiced across academic and professional contexts. The book captures the richness of current principles and practice in sustainability from diverse geographical...Loe edasi...
This book highlights world perspectives on critical aspects impacting the circular economy and the Just Transition. In doing so, it provides recommendations based on the seven pillars of the circular economy which involve: design for durability and...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and scientifically rigorous synthesis of sustainable agriculture, emphasizing its role in building resilient food systems, advancing the green economy, and addressing climate change and natural resource constraints....Loe edasi...
Disrupting traditional notions of urban and city planning, this volume examines the intricate interplay of conflicts, the emergence of new borders for refugees and migrants, colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, and grassroots struggles for...Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on metrics as a key element of power relations in the EU anti-poverty policy, not least because the calculative infrastructure underlying them actively shapes the distribution of power. These metric-based power dynamics are lin...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the dynamic interface of urban practice, transformation, and cities and climate change science. Beginning with the landmark 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, moving through the Innovate4Cities Conferen...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book explores the development of contemporary urban struggles in Sweden, offering a comprehensive and critical perspective on collective action in cities. It examines the practices of collective urban actors, highlighting both visib...Loe edasi...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RG...Loe edasi...
This book offers a deep exploration of recent rural land reform within China, focusing on how a central-initiated policy experimentation has played out at the county-level. Through the lens of urban theories, including local governments behavior, st...Loe edasi...
Transforming Science: Theory and Practice is an accessible handbook aimed at scientists, researchers, and students interested in research for transformative social change. Readers learn to design and implement a research project that forwards scient...Loe edasi...
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to climate change, drawing on a unique and extensive empirical investigation involving more than 10,000 Italian firms. It examines...Loe edasi...
