Chapter 1. The development and context of Geography in South Africa -- Part I. Physical and Environmental Geography -- Chapter 2. The making of the South African landscape -- Chapter 3. Mapping the environment, past and present -- Chapter 4. Minerals and mining in South Africa -- Chapter 5. Climate change during the late Quaternary in South Africa -- Chapter 6. The Holocene climates of South Af…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Geographies of Latin American Corruption -- Chapter 3. European Corruption in Geographic Perspective -- Chapter 4. Spatiality of Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa -- Chapter 5. Geographies of Sub-Saharan African Corruption -- Chapter 6. Geographically Uneven Landscapes of Asian Corruption -- Chapter 7. Corruption in Oceania -- Chapter 8. Corrup…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment -- Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology -- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora -- Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest -- Chapter 6. Survival at Shora…
Introduction -- How Has Production Space Evolved in China? -- How Does Regional Industrial Structure Evolve in China? -- What Matters for Regional Industrial Dynamics in China? -- What Facilitates New Firm Formation in China? -- Does Creative Destruction Work for Chinese Regions? -- What Causes Firm Failure in China? -- What Sustains Large Firms in China? -- How Do Agglomeration Economies Contr…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Objectives, Substantive Issues, and Structure of this Book -- Chapter 2. Overview of Governance Theories that are relevant for the SDGs -- Chapter 3. Laying out Actors and Dynamics in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 4. Exploring Some Specific Case Studies -- Chapter 5. Governance Pillars and Competences: Power, Knowledge, and Norms as Cross-cuttin…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Normative Aggression and Violence -- Chapter 3. Violence in Adolescence -- Chapter 4. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) -- Chapter 5. Psychopathy in Adolescence.This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective. Developmental changes and risk factors as direct causes for viol…
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours. Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case …
The Concept of Spatial Planning and the Planning System -- Spatial Planning in Ghana: Historical Origins and Evolution -- Contemporary Planning Systems and Spatial Planning at the National Level -- The Inception of Regional Spatial Planning in Ghana -- Spatial Planning at the Local Level and Development Management -- Policy Integration in Spatial Planning: Mechanisms, Challenges and the Way For…
Introduction -- Part I: Conflict and Power -- Conflict and Geopolitics -- Territoriality: Identity, State and Nation Revisited -- The Causes of Conflict -- Can Democracy be all Things to all People -- Part II: Humanitarian Action: Development Concepts -- Aligning Humanitarian Action, Development and Geopolitics -- Vulnerability, Crises and Famine Versus Sustainable Development. Development – …
Preface -- Part I: The Exploration of the Theory and Practice of the Eco City Construction in China -- The Principle of “Following the Way the Human Body Works” in the Construction of an Eco City -- Construction of Eco Cities in China in an Information Age -- The Economic Development and the Environmental Protection of the Eco City -- The Space Layout and Planning of the Eco City Construct…