Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space
Issues of Land Use, Territorial Marginalization and Development at the Dawn of New Millennium
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2017
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-138-73940-6 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2000. An examination of environment and marginality in geographical space. It discusses the issue of marginalization from the point of view of the environment by using the viewpoints of land use, landscape and development. The aim of the book is to provide an overview of the issues at hand, while keeping a close connection with practical real-world examples of what, where and how environmental issues manifest on marginal areas. The book is divided into four main parts, which address: land use and environment; territorial marginalization; development in margins and peripheries; and summary and conclusions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 151 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-73940-6 (9781138739406)
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Majoral Roser | Heikki Jussila | Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao
Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space
Issues of Land Use, Territorial Marginalization and Development at the Dawn of New Millennium
Book
11/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
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Majoral Roser | Heikki Jussila | Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao
Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space
Issues of Land Use, Territorial Marginalization and Development at the Dawn of New Millennium
E-Book
11/2017
Routledge
€47.49
Available for download
Majoral Roser | Heikki Jussila | Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao
Environment and Marginality in Geographical Space
Issues of Land Use, Territorial Marginalization and Development at the Dawn of New Millennium
E-Book
11/2017
Routledge
€47.49
Available for download
Persons
Majoral Roser, Heikki Jussila, Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao
Content
1: Introduction; 1: Land use and environment; 2: Land use and abuse; 3: Trajectories of change in marginal and critical regions in Southeast Asia and Southern China; 4: Economic scenario of the reclamation and utilisation of marginal lands in India; 5: The problem of decision areas within a fragile ecosystem; 6: Agro-industrial enterprises and environmental fragility; 7: A place in globalization; 8: The globalization impact on a marginal agricultural area; 9: Transforming the fringe; 2: Territorial marginalization; 10: The concept of territorial marginality; 11: Territorial positionament of a peripheral region in the Atlantic Arch, Galicia (Spain); 12: Reality and perception of marginality; 13: Territorial marginalization; 14: Political boundaries and the development of marginal areas; 15: Microperiphery in Mega-Cities; 16: Space, behaviour and marginality; 3: Development in margins and peripheries; 17: A pink invasion into the Dutch periphery; 18: The changing agrarian structure of Israel's southern periphery; 19: Coping with business crisis in the Russian North; 20: Transition in the post-socialist countryside; 21: Residential and settlement issues of forest sector communities in the Republic of Karelia, Russia; 4: Summary and conclusions; 22: Summary and conclusions