The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book explores the complex nexus among place, conflict and communication and brings together 11 investigations around the interplay of place, conflict and communication. The interdisciplinary focus includes education, history, international relations, law and sociology. The chapters are geographically diverse, traversing Aceh in Indonesia, Australia, England, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book highlights the possibilities for reimagining the future so that more democratic and peaceful understandings of place can lead to fewer conflicts and less conflict-based communication. Better futures are possible only if place is replotted, conflict is reconceptualised and communication is recontextualised from new, varied and more inclusive perspectives with a vision to creating a more harmonious world.

The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew's interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization.This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through ideas about place seduction and the formation of landscapes. Throughout, examples are given from urban and environmental touristed landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands, and chapter contributions include:an analysis of the representational character of landscape and the built environmenthistoric constructions of place seductionthe importance of class, racial, and gender dimensions of placehow mobility and the seduction of place orient identity formationthe environmental impacts of tourism economies.Broad in scope, this book is ideal for social scientists and humanists who are interested in contemporary debates about place studies, mobility, and the located realities of globalization.

Faltam muitos passos para que o Porto se eleve acima da sua corda ribeirinha, para se fazer metrópole. Mas penso que o conseguirá mais depressa do que muitas outras cidades, a que não faltam recursos, falta só a justa ambição do seu lugar na terra.[...]Com extremosa alma, o Porto espera nos seus filhos para que o continuem a construir e a amar.

El desequilibrio económico, social y territorial que conlleva la alarmante situación de despoblación que sufren muchos municipios rurales de la España interior, hace que este fenómeno sea hoy en día uno de los puntos algidos de la mayoria de las politicas nacionales, autonomicas y locales de nuestro pais.La presente obra lleva a cabo un analisis exhaustivo del problema de la despoblacion del mundo rural, ofreciendo al lector una vision panoramica y analitica de este fenomeno para luego aportar una serie de soluciones concretas y de aplicacion practica que evidencian la posibilidad de revertir o al menos mitigar las consecuencias negativas que produce tal desequilibrio, dejando atras conjeturas abstractas o elucubraciones teoricas que lejos de hacer hincapie en medidas practicas y efectivas, lo unico que hacen es constatar la existencia de un grave problema que acecha a un gran numero de nucleos rurales de nuestro territorio.En definitiva, el interes y proposito de esta obra es servir de base para que el conjunto de Instituciones publicas de nuestro pais convengan de forma coordinada hacer frente y actuar de manera urgente en aquellos municipios en los que el problema de la despoblacion es especialmente acusado y que indefectiblemente los avoca a su desaparicion.

Esta obra responde a lo que siempre ha constituido una pretensión de la geografía: especializar la información a un nivel de desagregación suficiente para apreciar las diferencias y las singularidades de cada territorio y tambien las regularidades de las distribuciones.

La cuestión de las migraciones internacionales se encuentra en el centro de las prioridades políticas de los países de la OCDE. Esta publicación analiza las tendencias recientes de los movimientos migratorios y de la política de migración en estos países.

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this textbook. The second edition of "The Geography of Transport Systems" maintains the overall structure of its predecessor, with chapters dealing with specific conceptual dimensions and methodologies, but the contents have been revised and updated.The second edition also offers new topics and approaches that have emerged as critical issues in contemporary transport systems, including security, energy, supply chain management and GIS-T. Relevant case studies have also been included in the second edition to underline real world issues related to transport geography. Some key points of the second edition include: updated and revised conceptual and methodological material to reflect the most current issues in transport geography; a case study for each chapter addressing a real world transportation geography issue; reorganization of the text to improve readability and continuity; updated and improved figures and maps; and, continuously updated and revised supporting web site.Mainly aimed at an undergraduate audience, this edition of "The Geography of Transport Systems" provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. It is highly illustrated and a companion web site has also been enhanced for the book, which contains PowerPoint slides, exercises, databases and GIS datasets.