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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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
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ISBN
9781138815582
Publisert
2014-10-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
589 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
332

Biographical note

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