Human geography (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research. Rather than analy...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterranean region to the US-Mexico border, and exploring a range of issues including securitization, irregu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the epistemological and political questions that they raise. The 'borderities...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death. It highlights the Green Belt along the Iron Curtain, whic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders. The analysis provides an in-depth look at Eur...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanti...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Conscious that trust deficit is a principal concern in East Asia, the book attempts to suggest ways to enhance confidence in certain key areas such as disputes in East and South China Seas, maritime CBMs, impact of economic interdependence on securit...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Bündnisse für Wohnen gelten auf bundes-, landes- und kommunalpolitischer Ebene als neue Governance-Formen, um Lösungen für aktuelle wohnungspolitische Herausforderungen zu entwickeln und zugleich privatwirtschaftliches und zivilgesellschaftliches Eng...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity an...