Human geography

Across Western Europe, the emphasis has shifted from physical manufacturing to the development of ideas, new products and creative processes.

This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination.

Planning in settler-colonial countries is always taking place on the lands of Indigenous peoples.

What does it mean to be an African today?

Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place.

Political ecology explicitly addresses the relations between the social and the natural, arguing that social and environmental conditions are deeply and inextricably linked.

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century.

*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in global higher education.

Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes to towns and transport systems.

Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas.

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities?

This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world.

This book considers the practices and techniques fans utilize to interact with different aspects and elements of food cultures.

The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations.

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus.

This book is about the history, present and future of one the most important policy ideas of the modern era - that there is a single, global dangerous amount of climate change.

This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives.

In this ground-breaking authoritative study, a highly documented and incisive analysis is made of the galvanising changes wrought to the people and landscape of British Mandated Palestine (1929-1948).

Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South.

Advanced imaging spectral technology and hyperspectral analysis techniques for multiple applications are the key features of the book.

This book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcomes among disadvantaged population groups.

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development.

An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.

Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past.

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Albania in English.

The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls.

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines.

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of poverty and interprets it across a range of policy reforms and project interventions in different geographical settings.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades.

In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of human-animal studies.

Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the conflicts and tensions within their day-to-day lives in ways that they find positive and viable.

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state.

In today's modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces.

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty.

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina.

Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society (e.

Change is inevitable, we are told.

There has been much academic interest in the role of museums as places where understanding of the past is shaped and legitimised for a wide and increasingly diverse public.

This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements.

Since the formal raising of the Iron Curtain, there has been much interest in post-socialism and the process of post-socialist transition.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product.

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded.

This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research.