Human geography

This book captures the complex relationships between rurality and populism with a focus on the processes of alienation and on the contemporary search for authenticity.

This book captures the complex relationships between rurality and populism with a focus on the processes of alienation and on the contemporary search for authenticity.

Planning with Young People presents educators, urban planners, and designers with an alternative vision of how to build cities for young people, challenging readers to imagine cities that truly serve their youngest inhabitants.

Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts - place, space, territory, networks, and scale - enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.

This book explores how food shapes urban identity, through people and practices, and reflects the cultural and social experiences of urban gastronomy.

Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts - place, space, territory, networks, and scale - enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.

Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle's becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social organizations to create a new vibrant urban environment.

At a time of escalating urban disasters and sharply reduced aid budgets, humanitarian aid, long held in need of reform, has no choice but to reset.

This book explores how food shapes urban identity, through people and practices, and reflects the cultural and social experiences of urban gastronomy.

At a time of escalating urban disasters and sharply reduced aid budgets, humanitarian aid, long held in need of reform, has no choice but to reset.

This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cultural life.

This book offers a comparative and multidisciplinary examination of the formulation and implementation of public policy within the Nordic region.

Music Education in Rural America: Volume II: A Teacher Guidebook offers practical resources to support K-12 music teacher success in rural schools, addressing the unique challenges they face and offering solutions tailored to their needs.

This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them.

Major cities in China have witnessed unprecedented expansion towards outer suburban areas through various forms of mixed-use, clustered development.

Bridging theory and empirical analysis, this book offers a comprehensive and data-driven exploration of urban-rural labour markets across advanced economies, shedding light on their structure, efficiency, and evolving dynamics.

Bridging theory and empirical analysis, this book offers a comprehensive and data-driven exploration of urban-rural labour markets across advanced economies, shedding light on their structure, efficiency, and evolving dynamics.

This book argues that addressing sustainability challenges requires insights from multiple disciplines, diverse perspectives, and collaboration across sectors.

This book argues that addressing sustainability challenges requires insights from multiple disciplines, diverse perspectives, and collaboration across sectors.

GIS and BIM in Infrastructure Projects: An Introduction to Applications Across the Lifecycle demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can complement building information modelling (BIM) throughout infrastructure development.

This book offers a comparative and multidisciplinary examination of the formulation and implementation of public policy within the Nordic region.

Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle's becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social organizations to create a new vibrant urban environment.

GIS and BIM in Infrastructure Projects: An Introduction to Applications Across the Lifecycle demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can complement building information modelling (BIM) throughout infrastructure development.

This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cultural life.

Major cities in China have witnessed unprecedented expansion towards outer suburban areas through various forms of mixed-use, clustered development.

This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them.

Researchers are, in many ways, travellers and storytellers whose journeys across landscapes, disciplines, and cultures offer profound opportunities for discovery, reflection, and connection within contemporary cultural studies.

This book presents salient examples of architectural projects and practices in South Africa since 1994 that collectively subscribe to the paradigm shift towards Public Interest Design.

This book assesses the opportunities and outcomes for shared-action learning, participatory approaches, and university-community partnerships to support climate adaptation and climate justice in the US Caribbean.

This book assesses the opportunities and outcomes for shared-action learning, participatory approaches, and university-community partnerships to support climate adaptation and climate justice in the US Caribbean.

This book examines the political circumstances of Chinese immigrants in France within a broader political climate.

This book examines the political circumstances of Chinese immigrants in France within a broader political climate.

This book demonstrates how Africa’s celebrated green-energy transition rests on hidden structures of exploitation and inequality.

The application of resilience in spatial and urban planning is typically narrow: it usually focuses on urban ecosystems and infrastructures as objects for implementing resource-efficient settlement strategies.

This book comprehensively explores the design and use of railway systems through theoretical, spatial, economic, and regional lenses.

This book comprehensively explores the design and use of railway systems through theoretical, spatial, economic, and regional lenses.

This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time.

This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city.

Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector.

"e;Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters"e; is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series.

Researchers are, in many ways, travellers and storytellers whose journeys across landscapes, disciplines, and cultures offer profound opportunities for discovery, reflection, and connection within contemporary cultural studies.

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China's export-oriented industries.

This book summarizes the geomorphology, geology, geochronology, geophysics and mineral resources of the Congo Basin, one of the world's most enigmatic and poorly understood major intra-continental sedimentary basins, and its flanking areas of Central Africa.

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless.

Here we use the term "e;field"e; to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "e;field informatics"e; describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field.

This is a compilation of manuscripts on mineral and thermal waters of different areas of the world.

These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China's export-oriented industries.

This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society.

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making.