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This handbook presents different perspectives on landscapes and illuminates various landscape understandings from different disciplines. Written by experts in the field, it provides an overview of landscape research’s current status and sheds light on the future of the field. The handbook examines theoretical perspectives of landscape research, landscape in the context of disciplinary references, meta-perspective approaches to landscape, methods of landscape research and practice, and fields of investigation of landscape research. Therefore, this handbook is an excellent resource for students, lecturers and researchers of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, social sciences, and geography.
This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors including sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programmes of team research based in European universities and institutes. Among the themes discussed are European and indigenous perceptions of the environment; historical processes of environmental change; the politics of resource use; ecotourism and development; deforestation and smallholding land-use strategies; migration and environmental degradation; disease environment and human geography; demography, sustainability and resource exploitation.
The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History offers a critical survey of the development of the field that unites historical scholarship along thematic lines and uses examples from diverse places to examine a wide set of tourism policies, practices, and niches in a global, transnational context.
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identi...
The Asia and the Pacific region is actively seeking ways to optimise the use and availability of its natural resources, which have been contributing to environmental degradation and hindering its sustainable development. This volume documents and promotes various initiatives showcasing the efforts countries in the region are making towards the implementation of the SDGs. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
This collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes.
Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der "multiplen Landschaften".