Human geography

The last decade has witnessed major crises in both food and energy security across the world.

The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences.

A collection of papers prepared for the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment's (EFIEA) Policy Workshop on Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessment, held from 12-19 July 2000.

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life.

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP).

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemployment on health; the relationship between income and health; how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation.

The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy.

Once considered the antithesis of a verdant and vibrant ecosystem, cities are now being hailed as highly efficient and complex social ecological systems.

The aims of this book are: systematization and theorization of these projects; clarify and deepen the social and territorial effects of these initiatives; in-depth study of the causes that lead to the generation of successful projects in rural development; and abound in the reasons that lead specific projects to be failed in the access to LEADER support and be finally not implemented.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

More than 50% of the world's population already live in cities, and the proportion is rising extremely rapidly towards developed country levels of more than 90%.

This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society.

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.

`God made the country, man made the town.

As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space.

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration.

This book is an outcome of the symposium on agricultural water management in Netherlands and discusses the methods that leads to cost effective but environmentally acceptable techniques.

Urban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen the economic competitiveness of their cities.

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places.

This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes.

The Heart of the City concept, which was introduced at CIAM 8 in 1951, has played an important role in architectural and urban debates.

This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography.

This book is a crucial reference source for high school and undergraduate college students interested in contemporary Brazil.

Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London.

Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic's global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor.

In the second half of the 1980s Japan has emerged as one of the new major destination countries for migrants from Asia.

This is a major book in a key area of development economics.

Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern.

The natural world has been "e;humanized"e;: even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact.

This edited collection brings together interventions on the geographies of tourism in pandemic times approached from a biopolitical perspective.

The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families.

In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries.

The UK has now joined a Europe-wide trend towards more devolved forms of government (e.

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment.

This book provides in-depth perspectives on communal food and dining practices.

In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested.

The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy.

Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy, but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity, and of the relationships among individuals and social groups.

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world.

This text provides an original contribution to the maritime literature focusing on developments in this field in the Baltic Region.

World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation presents an insight into discussions and debates surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it.