The Geography of Border Landscapes (Routledge Library Editions

Political Geography)
Herausgeber: Minghi, Julian V.; Rumley, Dennis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9781138815582
• ISBN-10: 1138815586
• Artikelnr.: 40951866

Autorenporträt

Dennis Rumley is Professor of Indian Ocean Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Border Landscape Concept 1. From Conflict to Harmony in
Border Landscapes 2. Geographical Investigtations In Boundary Areas of the
Basle Region ('Regio') 3. Boundary, Values and Identity: The Swiss-Italian
Transborder Region 4. Some Developing and Current Problems of the Eastern
Border Landscape of the Federal Republic of Germany: The Bavarian Example
5. Geographic Problems of Frontier Regions: The Case of the Italo-Yugoslav
Border Landscape 6. The Impact of Sovereignty Transfer on the Settlement
Pattern of Sakhalin Island 7. Society, State and Peripherality: The Case of
the Thai-Malaysian Border Landscape 8. The Indoneisa-Papua New Guinea
Border Landscape 9. Coastal Islands on an International Boundary: Dauan and
Parama in the Torres Strait 10. Inter-and Intra-Regional Conflicts in
Pakistan's Border Landscape 11. The Gulf of Aqaba Coastline: An Evolving
Border Landscape 12. The Evolution and Concemporary Significance of the
Bophuthatswana-Botswana Border Landscape 13. Where the Colorado Flows into
Mexico 14. Peacekeeping Missions and Landscapes . Conclusion Border
Landscapes: Themes and Directions