Human geography

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

This book analyses an increasingly important phenomenon in contemporary regional development, namely 'traveling expertise' and policy ideas.

Poverty has dire consequences on the ability to fulfil one's aspirations for life.

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban.

Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects the nation's economic performance.

This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging "e;glocal"e; realities of (sub)urban space.

This book looks at how internationalization has transformed political institutions and styles of governing.

The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage.

Two hundred years of industry have transformed the British landscape.

This text shows how the principles and technologies of object-oriented programming, distributed processing and internet protocols can be embraced to further the reliability and interoperability of datasets for the professional GIS market.

This book critically interrogates the neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model and proposes a popular progressive model centred around the lived realities of African societies.

This is a book on how and why workers come together.

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.

Public art is produced and 'lived' within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres.

How have issues of place and identity, of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture?

The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape.

At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly, West Bengal in eastern India lies a geography that has hosted many outsiders - traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries and wanderers.

This title was first published in 2000.

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy?

Drawing on a rich diversity of theoretical approaches and analytical strategies, urban geographers have been at the forefront of understanding the global and local processes shaping cities, and of making sense of the urban experiences of a wide variety of social groups.

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations.

Regionalism has regained momentum in the post-Cold War era.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and build upon that cultural heritage.

This book explores the growth of 'character education' in schools and youth organisations over the last decade.

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`The expression of human experience it embodies .

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society.

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture.

This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the potential for Chinese ecological agriculture providing a basis for sustainable development in the Chinese countryside.

Spatial predictive modeling (SPM) is an emerging discipline in applied sciences, playing a key role in the generation of spatial predictions in various disciplines.

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of 'adequate housing'.

As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information.

This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom.

This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries.

Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott's comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory.

This book focuses on the role of the creative sector in the governance of urban renewal and economic development initiatives.

John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four.

Mohamad examines the day-to-day experience of virtual and non-tangible mobilities of young Bruneian Malay Muslim and Malaysians, as enabled by popular culture and digital media.

Planning is particularly important in Eastern Europe since most spatial change and economic planning are the products of centralised decision-making, which in turn is the product of a systematic socio-political ideology.

Postcolonialism, Decoloniality and Development is a comprehensive revision of Postcolonialism and Development (2009) that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial and decolonial approaches and their implications for development studies.

Written by the 2018 Mindel C.

Twenty-five years into transformation, Central and Eastern European regions have undergone substantial socio-economic restructuring, integrating into European and global networks and producing new patterns of regional differentiation and development.

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "e;greening"e; from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective.

Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas offers a complete and thorough system for using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data for improving impervious surface estimation (ISE).

The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so.

This title was first published in 2002.