Human geography

Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible.

Using a transnational analytical framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of formal and informal markets and place in globalised cities.

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.

Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years.

This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

Through a socio-semiotic analysis of promotional materials used by both producers of quality products and their support organizations, this book investigates the use of imagery, especially images of place, in three contrasting regions of Ireland.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages.

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

Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge.

This innovative textbook, written by an author based in Zambia, provides an invaluable perspective on the key public health issues that Africa is facing today.

Drawing together leading urban academics, this book provides the first detailed and cohesive exploration of contemporary urban regeneration in Australian cities.

With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe.

The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South.

Cultural Ecologies of the Land is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure.

Global trends such as climate change, digitalisation, enhanced concepts of democracy and the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis are changing the playing field of cities across the world.

What makes Darjeeling tea, Pashmina shawl, Monsooned Malabar Arabica coffee and Chanderi saree special?

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa.

Through a deep examination of what has become known as the 'Preston Model', this book explores an innovative approach to local economic development that utilises economic democratisation to realise both social and economic objectives.

In one of the first books to treat retailing as a subject of serious analysis, Retailing and the Public examines the state of one of the most important industries in the country.

Retailer's buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration.

This revised edition takes the theme of place as the unifying principle for a full account of the discipline at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

First published in 1998, this volume, spanning a lifetime's research, is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade.

Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social change in the modern world.

Reprinted from "e;The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma"e; in 1927, Harding and Moore's illustrated compendium describes the biology, anatomy and sub species of the parasitic leech family that is the Suborder Rhynchabdellae predominantly found in south Asia.

In the last thirty years, China has experienced rapid economic development and urbanisation which has resulted in high levels of environmental degradation and has put considerable pressure on the country's infrastructure and natural resources.

Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history.

This title offers a profound exploration of one of the worlds oldest civilizations and its pivotal role in shaping global history and modern international relations.

Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South.

There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us.

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness?

Climate change and urbanization are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and their effects are converging in dangerous ways.

Net zero emissions is only the beginning.

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region.

The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years.

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

Over the last few decades, circuits of capital have been stretched through processes of economic globalization, leading to complex and hybrid outcomes that result in different modes of production and consumption.

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance.

Originally published in 1984.

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

Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing: With Algorithms for Python, Fourth Edition, is focused on the development and implementation of statistically motivated, data-driven techniques for digital image analysis of remotely sensed imagery and it features a tight interweaving of statistical and machine learning theory of algorithms with computer codes.

European agriculture is on the brink of a financial and ecological crisis.

Common Sense in Environmental Management examines common sense not in theory, but in practice.

With the turn of the century our ability to collect and store geospatial information has increased considerably.

The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is how we experience and inhabit urban space.

This book covers the state-of-art image classification methods for discrimination of earth objects from remote sensing satellite data with an emphasis on fuzzy machine learning and deep learning algorithms.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have experienced conflict.