Human geography

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.

This book offers a collaborative investigation of the policies and practices which have redeveloped local and national economies in the aftermath of the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008.

With the achievement of further EU and NATO enlargement, a critical political and economic lens is now focused on East Central Europe and, to a lesser extent, the other former communist states.

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This book aims to summarize and report the major research achievements and validation results under the global land cover (GLC) initiative led by the Group Earth Observation (GEO).

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda.

This major study, first published in 1989, examines Western Europe's urban problems in unprecedented breadth and depth.

Tourism is characterized by diversity, enormous growth, and multidimensional impacts on several levels.

This volume contains the extended versions of selected papers presented at the first Mediterranean Conference "e;Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building"e; held at the Polytechnic ofBari in December 1999, supported by the National Research Council of Italy.

Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers an introduction to recent developments in port and hinterland strategies, operations and related specializations.

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The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers.

Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of tools for integrating and processing spatial information.

This book explores small town geographical aspects by approaching them from a socio-spatial perspective.

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap.

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism?

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today.

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

Robin Hofmann zeigt im vorliegenden Buch, wie in der Flüchtlingskrise die neue europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur zunehmend an ihre Grenzen stößt.

GIS for Sustainable Development examines how GIS applications can improve collaboration in decision making among those involved in promoting sustainable development.

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays.

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century.

A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives, this cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way.

First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is based on a selection of papers presented at the IORG launch in Chandigarh in November 2002.

Ernesto Caravantes was among the multitudes of people who were affected by the Recession of 2008, the financial impact of which continues to be felt to this day.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.