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The Economics of Urban Property Markets: An Institutional Economics Analysis
By Paschalis Arvanitidis
Mainstream urban and real estate economics tend to ignore the supply side of the economy and to undervalue the significant role that the property market plays in the economic development of cities. The Economics of Urban Property Markets is a cohesive analysis and synthesis of a wide range...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-42682-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia: Agricultural Biomass Waste
By Salman Zafar
This book highlights the biomass energy potential of Agricultural Biomass Waste in Southeast Asia, keeping in view the tremendous amounts of biomass in the region and the emergence of sustainable technologies and solutions to transform this resource into clean energy and fuel. The author provides...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-61125-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Children, Youth and the City
By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-37692-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Geographies of Globalization, 2nd Edition
By Warwick Murray
This informative text offers a geographical perpsective on globalization. It provides a lively exploration of its spatial impacts and the distinctive contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-56762-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Theories and Practices of Development, 2nd Edition
By Katie Willis
Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led academics and policy-makers to consider how ‘development’ in all parts of the world should be achieved. However, ‘development’ has always been a contested idea. While often presented as a positive process to improve...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-59071-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Water in Central Asia: Past, Present and Future
By Victor A. Dukhovny, Joop de Schutter
Central Asia is the cluster of countries located in the basin of the "Great Aral Sea". It originates from the ancient civilizations of the IV-III millennium B.C. known as “Ariana” and is an important geopolitical centre today, where the USA, Russia, China, EU, Iran and India participate in the...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-45962-4 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment
By Anthony D. King
The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-61166-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe: Approaches to Development
Edited by Donald Macleod, Steven Gillespie
Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry. That said, it remains highly sensitive and fragile in terms of environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts. This volume focuses on rural Europe as a...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-54799-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 to 2016, 2nd Edition
Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
The first edition of Olympic Cities provided the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. This substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Three years on, its coverage takes account of important new...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-48658-3 | Paperback (Routledge)