The Dictionary of Human Geography

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W war The mobilization of military or para- military violencebetween political comm- unities. Although thestateis often defined ...

Some scholars have proposed the concept of amode of warfareto characterize the ‘complex of social relations through which wars a ...

recruits from diasporic populations, from refugeecamps and from city-dwellers who have been forcefully excluded from the global ...

cell, and stores, redistributes and releases about 30 per cent of the total amount of solar energy that hits the Earth (Clarke, ...

policy such as education, employment, health, social services and transport, the state appar- atus strives to ensure the deliver ...

development becamemodernityon a planet- ary scale, in which the West served as the ‘transcendental pivot of analytical reflectio ...

include rivers, lakes, marshes, fens and peat- lands, and intertidal and shallow-marine envir- onments up (such as salt marshes ...

regarded wilderness as unproductive, as wasteland, full of danger, a place to be crossed without delay. It was also land ripe fo ...

and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo-liberalism and to domination of the world by any capital or any form of i ...

founded in 1994 at the close of the Uruguay Round (1986–94) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks in Marrak ...

necessarily by politicalborders. Hence, three types of society are identified:mini-systemsare small tribal entities following th ...

Z zonal model A model of intra-urban spatial organization created by E.W. Burgess (1886– 1966: see Burgess, 1924), a leading mem ...

Suggested reading Johnston (1971). zone of dependence An area characterized by the spatial clustering of residential and other f ...

human entertainment and education,ex situ breeding and conservation. Initially developed from menageries of animal exotica, and ...

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