Human geography

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

Canaries in the Data Mine offers an account of the lived experiences and cultural expectations of young people growing up in digital environments increasingly owned by others and designed for profit.

Der Sammelband Raum und Bild gibt Einblick in die Verortung und Erforschung visueller Kommunikation über Raum und der damit einhergehenden (Re)Produktion von Raum durch die Präsentation von empirischen Projekten aus aktueller sozial-, kultur- und raumbezogener Forschung.

The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration.

For the last 134 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Societal Influence explores how the coronavirus pandemic impacts the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), paying particular attention to socioeconomic and disaster risk management dimensions.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization.

Discover the stories behind Jane Goodall's visionary approach to community-led conservation.

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities.

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

National and European transport models become increasingly important.

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world?

By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

First published in 2002.

Hall argues that 'London was the chief manufacturing centre of the country in 1861, and without doubt for centuries before that'.

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement.

This comprehensive textbook identifies the emerging legal, policy, and ethical considerations associated with the collection, analysis, storage, and distribution of data that can be tied to location on Earth - otherwise known as "e;geospatial information.

This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990.

Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced, regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment in both embodied and symbolic ways.

This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design.

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting.

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability.

This book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level.

In examining both theory and applications, this book, through useful examples, provides a stimulating introduction to ecosystems.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

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This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world.

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for "e;Doing"e; Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.

How does being located in borderlands impact cultural identity, through both assimilation and distinctness?

An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

Coastal Systems offers a concise introduction to the processes, landforms, ecosystems, and management of coasts.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation.