Human geography

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

How do places manipulate our emotions?

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters.

Originally published in 1987.

This book aims to understand the predicaments of 'left behind places' and the scale of the policy challenge of 'levelling up' their economic prosperity.

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world.

Bringing together a range of different place-studies, including holy wells, spa towns, Turkish baths and sweat-houses, sea-bathing and the modern spa, this book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland.

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related.

Global perspective on how institutional factors facilitate or hamper the flows of information and knowledge.

This book stems from a series of biennial conferences devoted to issues affecting air-transport provision in remoter regions that have been organized by the Centre for Air Transport in Remoter Regions at Cranfield University.

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.

South Africa's transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country's national climate change response strategy.

Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world.

This book, originally published in 1972, discusses the impact of technological change in sea transport on trade links, shipping routes and economic activities.

This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries.

This volume focuses on approaches towards a better understanding of the geological, hydrogeological and paleoclimatic evolution of Northeast Africa.

Maps have power--they can instruct, make life easier, mislead, or even lie.

Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself.

It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered.

Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion.

This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion.

This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts.

At a time in which race lies at the heart of so much public debate, Talking Race in Young Adulthood comes at an important moment.

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change.

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes.

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions.

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration.

Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world.

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities.

This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place.

This title was first published in 2002: Uniting scholars from across the full range of social sciences, this distinctive volume provides a unique overview of northern European planning.

Visitors to Thailand's urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products.

This title was first published in 2002.

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven geographers.

This book provides a global view of the social effects of disaster in developed and developing countries.

For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food.

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.

For whom and why are borders drawn?

This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society.

In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia Andres Garcia Trujillo investigates whether peace agreements geared toward terminating internal armed conflicts trigger rural distributive changes.

Second-rank cities are back on the academic scene, capturing the interest of scholars with their unexpected recent performance with respect to first-rank cities.

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region.

Pension Sustainability in China: Fragmented Administration and Population Aging aims to investigate the impact of fragmentation and population ageing on pension sustainability in China.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology.

A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations.

Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography.

This book chronicles key contemporary developments in the social scientific study of various types of male-to-female abuse in rural places and suggests new directions in research, theory, and policy.