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Cover Spatial Flood Risk Management
Spatial Flood Risk Management
Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land
Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, and Mark E. Wilkinson
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379534
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover The Violence of Conservation in Africa
The Violence of Conservation in Africa
State, Militarization and Alternatives
Edited by Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, and Tafadzwa Mushonga
Offering insights on violence in conservation, this timely book demonstrates how and why the state in Africa pursues conservation objectives to the detriment of its citizens. It focuses on how the dehumanization of black people and indigenous groups, the insertion of global green agendas onto the continent, a lack of resource sovereignty, and neoliberal conservation account for why violence is a permanent feature of conservation in Africa.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885615
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Edited by A. H. Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels, and Ben M. McKay
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
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Handbook
Published:
14 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
Global Order in Turbulent Times
Oran R. Young
In this timely book, leading scholar Oran Young reflects on the future of the global order. Developing new lenses through which to consider needs for governance arising on a global scale, Young investigates the grand challenges of the 21st century requiring the most urgent and sustained planetary responses: protecting the Earth’s climate system; controlling the eruption of pandemics; suppressing disruptive uses of cyberspace; and guiding the biotechnology revolution.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200720
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Edited by Satu Teerikangas, Tiina Onkila, Katariina Koistinen, and Marileena Mäkelä
This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.
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Handbook
Published:
16 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906035
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia, and Fernanda Frankenberger
Exploring the important role of education in both pursuing and implementing sustainable development, this timely Handbook highlights how teaching methods at schools and universities can impact the future. It looks at ways not only to inform students about matters related to sustainable development, but also to empower them to adopt behaviours and actions that lead to more sustainable lifestyles.
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Handbook
Published:
22 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104657
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies
A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies
Edited by Alice Hovorka, Sandra McCubbin, and Lauren Van Patter
Exploring the innovative and thriving field of animal geographies, this Research Agenda analyses how humans think about, place, and engage with animals. Chapters explore how animals shape human identities and social dynamics, as well as how broader processes influence the circumstances and experiences of animals.
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Monograph Book
Published:
22 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979993
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities
Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities
Edited by Annelies Zoomers, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki, and Guus Van Westen
This timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.
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Handbook
Published:
08 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117425
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
Making Social and Environmental Injustice Visible
Edited by Shannon O’Lear
This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.
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Monograph Book
Published:
04 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978033
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners
Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners
The Essential Toolbox
Edited by Anna Spenceley
Offering how-to tools and step-by-step guidance, this practical Handbook combines academic insight with extensive professional experience to outline best practice in undertaking environmental, socio-cultural and economic assessments that establish the feasibility of new tourism ventures and ascertains their impact over time.
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Handbook
Published:
13 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100895
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021