Human geography

During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention.

In this comprehensive study, problems of racial and religious division are examines in places as diverse as Northern Ireland and the West Bank.

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized.

This title was first published in 2001.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives.

The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness.

These two volumes present a conspectus of current research on the history and culture of early medieval Spain and Portugal, from the time of the Arab conquest in 711 up to the fall of the caliphate.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how, seventeen years after the election of the first Thatcher government, it is clear that despite the attacks, land use planning has survived.

This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

When originally published in 1975, (here re-issuing the 3rd edition of 1985), this was the only genuinely introductory textbook to the subject of transportation planning.

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics underpinning the successful performance of local innovation systems (LIS), that is, spatial concentration of innovation activities in specific geographical areas, characterized by the synergetic co-localization of research centers, innovation-driven enterprises, large corporations and capital providers.

Complying with Colonialism presents a complex analysis of the habitual weak regard attributed to the colonial ties of Nordic Countries.

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history.

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

During the past few decades of the 20th and the first years of the present Century, economic losses and human casualties due to natural disasters increased exponentially on our planet, mainly because of the increased density of population and industry in high hazard areas.

First Published in 2009.

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students.

The concept of mental maps is used in several disciplines including geography, psychology, history, linguistics, economics, anthropology, political science, and computer game design.

Les débats sur l’orpaillage clandestin en Côte d’Ivoire ont été longtemps focalisés sur les dégâts d’ordre environnemental.

The creation of safe areas poses a number of difficult challenges to the spatial and normative organization of contemporary international politics.

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it.

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

There is a poetic convergence between the struggles of people on the move and people in the peripheries of power, as they may collectively envision alternative forms of coexistence and fight together for fundamental rights and a dignified life.

Through a deep examination of what has become known as the 'Preston Model', this book explores an innovative approach to local economic development that utilises economic democratisation to realise both social and economic objectives.

Die Befassung mit ‚Landschaft‘ hat in den letzten Jahren in der Öffentlichkeit und den Wissenschaften an Bedeutung gewonnen.

This book focuses on the potential natural resources of Bangladesh from Precambrian to recent times and their detailed geological background.

This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today.

This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities.

This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy.

Originally published in 1983.

This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives.

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to "e;safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space"e; as outlined in United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No.

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development.

Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities, and Sexualities at the University of Winchester.

This book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography.

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature.

This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer's perspective.

Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence.

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexities.

PISA-Studien haben unübersehbar verdeutlicht, wie selektiv das deutsche Bildungssystem ist und wie stark es soziale Ungleichheit reproduziert.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local activists.

Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities.