Human geography

Metropolitan areas are home to a significant proportion of the world's population and its economic output.

After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture.

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda.

How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth?

Written by leading academics, this book is an invaluable 'how to .

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017.

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

Very few books have products as diverse as those of the grape vine: even fewer have products with such a cultural significance.

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies.

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard.

This book explores the growing significance of veganism.

When an earthquake hits a war zone or cyclone aid is flown in by an enemy, many ask: Can catastrophe bring peace?

This book develops a novel approach to the study of language, bringing it into dialogue with the latest geographical concepts and concerns and provides a comprehensive account of the geography of Welsh language analysing policy development, language use, ability and shift.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

Embracing and Managing Change in Tourism examines management responses to the major changes taking place in international tourism and considers tourism itself as an agent of change.

The increase in private property value, growth of underground and multilevel development, and the emergence of 3D technologies in planning and GIS drives the need to record 3D situations in cadastral registration.

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples.

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory.

Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School has become the widely recommended textbook for student and new teachers of geography.

This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography.

A timely, insightful look at the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and without problems.

Space is never a neutral 'stage' on which social actors play their roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling against each other.

Challenging traditional approaches to migration, which puts migrants in narrow categories (legal and illegal, newcomer and settler), 'Transit Migration' shows that migrants and refugees live in transit for years, a stage in the migration course profoundly affecting destination countries and the migrants themselves.

Using the Rideau Lakes region of eastern Ontario and the Cultus Lake area of southwestern British Columbia as case studies, Greg Halseth examines the ways in which economic, political, and social power affect community change.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

This, the 131st edition of The Statesman's Year-Book, has been throughly revised and updated to present a political, economic and social record of the nations of the world in a period of continuing changes.

This title was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming countries for the past few decades.

This book conducts a panoramic study on the history of China's Science and Technology which focuses on the Medium and Long-Term Science and Technology Program (MLSTP).

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development.

This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

This book charts the developments in the discipline of geography from the 1950s to the 1980s, examining how geography now connects with urban, regional and national planning, and impacts on areas such as medicine, transport, agricultural development and electoral reform.

A comprehensive and authoritative account of how primary school children and teachers can use maps to enhance learning and deepen understanding of this essential skill.

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed.

Originally published in 1987, this book provides a comprehensive history of housing policy in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1970s.

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world.

The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace.

The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, are largely marginalized or dismissed.

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment.

Originally published in 1996, this work begins by considering the changes that have taken place in the social, political and economic environment of Eastern Europe as a whole and then concentrates upon the shipping market with reference to Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

An award-winning writer reveals a changing Chinaone conversation and adventure at a time.

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This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of place event marketing in the Asia Pacific region.

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region.

This title was first published in 2001.

'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' GeographicalAdventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone.

As do other mighty forces such as wars, nationalist aspirations, and the shifting courses of great rivers, globalization changes the world's borders by bending them out of shape and creating new transnational spaces.

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory.

The emergence of a global economy has led to the erosion of local autonomy and national sovereignty with an associated emphasis on the spread of liberal, free-market economics.