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The Geography of Central America and Mexico
Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America is Mexico and Central America. An area of fascination and study for geographers and other scholars from around the world, these lands and peoples have played important roles in the discoveries and distributions of civilizations, resources, and nations for millennia. These regions have stimulated a large mass of research and publications across the many sub-disciplines of geography. The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumneycollects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to help and encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing ...
Border Spaces
Grounded in the borderlands and prompted by art, this book considers the connections between art, land, and people in a fraught binational region--Provided by publisher.
The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy
This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participation in the labor market, studies occupational segregation by gender and analyzes labor transitions, questioning whether the experience for men and women differs. It also explores the effect of entrepreneurship support programs on women's economic and social positions, as well as the public policy implications of women's entry into the labor market. The book investigates working women in Mexico and also offers comparisons with countries such as Spain and developing countries within Eastern Europe. It explores a variety of topics, from ...
Problems of Megacities
Revised papers discussed at the annual meeting of the International Geographical Union Commission of Urban Development and Urban Life, Mexico City, 1997.
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination:...
Vulnerabilidad socioterritorial en zonas metropolitanas de la Región Centro
El argumento central de este libro gira alrededor del concepto de vulnerabilidad socio- territorial con la finalidad de captar la naturaleza distintiva de las nuevas situaciones de inseguridad e indefensión que la población enfrenta en las nuevas circunstancias económicas, sociales, políticas ambientales y culturales y cómo su bienestar general se ve afectado por estas nuevas circunstancias. La vulnerabilidad no está limitada a los grupos pobres, sino que puede afectar a cualquier grupo de la sociedad al verse expuesto a vulnerabilidades de todo tipo que restringen las oportunidades e impiden la integración y/o participación de los grupos sociales. Los trece capítulos que lo integra...
