Human geography

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities.

Originally published in 1983, The Norman Heritage looks at the Norman Conquest as a turning point in English history.

Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover.

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions.

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements.

This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism.

Governance of Europe's City Regions considers the changing role of the European Union in regional issues, explores how national governments have become increasingly involved at the regional scale and examines the constitutional and political contexts in which regional and local governments operate.

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

The 2016 referendum resulted in a vote for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume offers a rare forum for a serious analysis of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan.

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide.

Published in 1998, this is a very timely book, especially with the current global concern for sustaining socio-economic development projects through increased civil society participation.

Will 'making a Living' remain a dream for the deprived and excluded?

This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics.

Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today's environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe.

Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid.

Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating.

Looking beyond a purely scientific discussion of hydrology, the authors of this volume emphasize that mankind needs to recognize the urgency of the situation in which our water is threatened.

This book critically explores the relationship between mobility patterns, transport provision and urban development in East African cities.

This book provides an in-depth study of the moral economies emerging from within conditions of precarity in rural communities in contemporary Myanmar.

Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city.

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

Human life is intimately woven into place.

Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world.

This book is an extensive review of the current state of illegal immigration in Europe and North America whilst providing theoretical analysis.

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centres are neighbourhoods where ordinairy people have their homes, often living in poverty and sometimes in squalor.

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

This book analyses the evolution of the sustainability discourse in the European Union, exploring the conditions necessary for sustainable development to move from a conceptual model into a model for action for strategic decision makers at all levels of governance.

This book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating.

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas.

Travel through time.

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them.

The 'new sharing economy' is a growing phenomenon across the Global North.

Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before.

Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe.

Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns.

Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists.

The analysis and management of ecosystems rely increasingly on sound geographical knowledge.

Outlandia is an off-grid artists' fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis.

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda.

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use.

The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts.