Human geography

Radar scattering and imaging of rough surfaces is an active interdisciplinary area of research with many practical applications in fields such as mineral and resource exploration, ocean and physical oceanography, military and national defense, planetary exploration, city planning and land use, environmental science, and many more.

This book explores the development and significance of an Earth-oriented progressive approach to fostering global wellbeing and inclusive societies in an era of climate change and uncertainty.

Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation.

In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields.

Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption.

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure.

This title was first published in 2003.

The word 'territory' has taken on renewed significance in a world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK, 'Making America Great Again' in the USA, and myriad populists from India to Brazil by way of Italy and Hungary.

Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation.

The Cinematic City offers an innovative and thought-provoking insight into cityscape and screenscape and their inter-connection.

Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution.

Originally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the context of policy options and constraints.

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation.

Originally published in 1988, this book reviews a selection of national policies and sets them against EU (the former EEC) action or inaction to sharpen the readers' understanding of both national and supranational policies.

Originally published in 1992.

Children are at the heart of popular and public debates in North America and Europe about the culture of public space.

This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House.

Modelling the City examines the changing role of urban models in respect to both the need to readdress measures of urban well-being and the perceived need to bring model outputs more in tune with key planning problems.

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations.

How strong and how significant is the interaction between migrants and homelands in the late 20th century?

The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways for city development.

Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security.

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media.

Originally published in 1986.

Public parks in the U.

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation.

In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies.

Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways.

At the start of the twenty-first century, it can be argued that human societies have a greater impact on the environment than ever before.

In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast.

This book was first published in 1939.

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel.

Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility and health.

The Urban Data Management Society has organised international symposia at various locations throughout Europe since 1971, and UDMS 2013 marks its second visit to London.

The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development.

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives.

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis.

Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development.

Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises.

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

Around the world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations.

In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond.

In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical.

This book examines the geography of partisan polarization, or the Reds and Blues, of the political landscape in the United States.

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture.

This book examines the lasting impact of the 2006 Winter Olympics on the city of Turin and the Piedmont region.

First published in 1998, this book covers a variety of health issues in the contemporary Middle east.