Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment & Planning books

This collection explores the complex dynamics of current global land grabbing from a broad agrarian political economy...  Read More >>

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked....  Read More >>

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The struggling states of Bihar and Mithila serve as extreme examples of India‘s problems. Development here has been...  Read More >>

Focusing on the post-socialist, postwar, and neoliberal transitions experienced in BiH, the book shows that planning...  Read More >>

This collection offers a multi-faceted portrait of the 'Great Russian Aliyah' of the 1990s with the emphasis on...  Read More >>

Street Computing develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents help themselves. Metaphorically speaking,...  Read More >>

The Essex village of Earls Colne, one of the most studied parishes in England, has been the subject of an ongoing...  Read More >>

With growing population and food security risks, there is an urgent need to increase sustainable agricultural productivity...  Read More >>

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and...  Read More >>

This book is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan...  Read More >>

This edited volume addresses the transatlantic response to the major challenges posed by recent changes in the global...  Read More >>

While addressing different facets of knowledge production and innovation processes, in sum, the chapters in this...  Read More >>

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks...  Read More >>

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from...  Read More >>

Covering recent advances regarding fundamental issues of geo-spatial information science (space and time, spatial...  Read More >>

This book illustrates the complexities of building civil dialogue and the difficulties of integrating diverse interests...  Read More >>

This original book presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed...  Read More >>

Urban Planning in North Africa explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting...  Read More >>

For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly...  Read More >>

This volume fills a gap in the literature on planning and the development of queer spaces. It highlights the resistance...  Read More >>

Participatory Rural Planning signposts what can work well and what should work differently in regard to participatory...  Read More >>

The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political...  Read More >>

Buildings have a long lifetime, and so they are a major target for any structural changes in consumption patterns....  Read More >>

This book traces the evolution and changing course of the relationship between communists and Muslims from the emergence...  Read More >>