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  1. Global Trends and Regional Development

    Edited by Nikolai Genov

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of...

    Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

    A Region in Transition

    By Jonathan Rigg

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the ‘market’ economies of the region usually defined by membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Organized thematically, the chapters deal with the environment and...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium

    Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

    Edited by Ben Chigara

    This book constitutes Volume II of a set of two Volumes. Volume II considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I

    Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

    Edited by Ben Chigara

    This book constitutes Volume I of a set of two Volumes. Volume I attempts a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in light of intensifying...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

    Partnerships in Action

    By Rory Shand

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

    Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Latin American Development

    By Julie Cupples

    Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

    Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Local Industrial Clusters

    Existence, Emergence and Evolution

    By Thomas Brenner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers....

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  8. The Middle East Today

    Political, Geographical and Cultural Perspectives, 2nd Edition

    By Dona J. Stewart

    The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography. This updated and revised edition features a host of pedagogical features to assist students with their...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals)

    Applications to Urban and Regional Systems

    By Alan Wilson

    Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Chinese City

    By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz

    China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands....

    Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge