Human geography

Integrating Information with GI Technology examines the components necessary for building infrastructure to support the panoly of Geographic Information (GI) research and services.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex interactions between port systems and urban environments, with a particular focus on international methodologies and site-specific case studies from the waterfronts of Palermo and Catania and the West Sicily Sea Authority.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a facility.

Le jardin est le lieu fantasmé par tout un chacun.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004.

First published in 1956, World Sea Fisheries gives a general survey of the sea fisheries of the world.

This book presents a new approach, which entails a broader, integrated view of heritage values on the one hand, and on the other a shift in emphasis from their protection to their valorisation.

This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field.

Human civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, where the first writing and the first technologies originated.

India is the fastest growing and the world's third-largest economy in terms of GDP in PPP terms.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into health disparities in both the United States and China.

This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of 'green criminality' against the natural environment.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic.

First Published in 1953, Geography from the Air is the first book in English to explain and illustrate fully the use of air photographs in the study of geography.

As a continuation of our award-winning book 'China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality', this book covers China's major urban changes over the last 30 years.

Tasked by the Clean Water Act to restore and maintain the integrity of their waters, state and local governments must develop systems for assessing the health of the streams within their borders.

Aventurarse en la tarea de comprender la complejidad creciente de la vida urbana requiere, necesariamente, nuevos abordajes transversales y disruptivos.

Human civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, where the first writing and the first technologies originated.

Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by scholars and activists alike.

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 4 typical human settlement types: valley, plain, hilly, and arid regions.

As the growth of the worlds population requires the continued search for residential space, the urbanization of natural lands is an inevitable process, but that process does not have to be one that is accomplished without regard for environmental quality.

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.

First published in 1956, World Sea Fisheries gives a general survey of the sea fisheries of the world.

Ce numéro thématique s’inscrit dans le prolongement de la journée d’étude organisée par Géographie et cultures en mars 2022 à l’occasion des 30 ans de la revue.

Natural and human activities change the environment we are living in and consequently impact the quality of life.

This text aims to offer information on research approaches to assessing global environment changes.

Debate still rages over some of the questions Doreen Massey provoked in the classic first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labor, such as the nature of theory, the importance of contingency and uniqueness, and the relationship of Marxism.

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 4 typical human settlement types: valley, plain, hilly, and arid regions.

This book reviews photographic portrayals of contemporary Italian migrants living in the area between Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland (Arc Lemanique).

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job.

From the vantage point of rural grandparents' mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media.

To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada's three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, civic and para-public allyship, individual and collective activism, and everyday practices of living and dreaming as revealed through photo-elicitation interviews and collective counter-mapping that together unmake and remake suburban places as queer.

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary research, theory, and practice in the geographies of religion in various parts of the world and with different populations.

In the age of climate change, psychology and design have been employed through impromptu collaborations to validate solutions and future scenarios.

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary research, theory, and practice in the geographies of religion in various parts of the world and with different populations.

The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent social, environmental, and political issues in the contemporary world.

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job.

A Times Best Art Book of the Year, 2024'A riot of a book' Country Life's Books of the Year, 2024The modern art market was born on a single night.

This title was first published in 2000.

This timely and innovative book delves into the complex interplay of human activities and natural limits in generating today's sustainability challenges.

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.