Human geography

When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th Century towns in Britain and America, there had been little attempt to search for links between these empirical studies and to relate them more to more general theories of 19th Century urban development.

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.

*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in global higher education.

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis.

Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing.

First published 1997, this volume examines the way in which political corruption remains neglected as a matter of scholarly enquiry and research.

First published in 1997.

This book explores the complex legal, cultural, economic and human rights issues associated with development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) in Vietnam.

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Europe today is characterized by aging populations, changing family patterns, dropping fertility rates and mass migration.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The aim of this book is to examine and compare the integration process in both Europe and Asia, and to draw some possible lessons for East Asia from the European experience, which culminated with the establishment of the economic and monetary union.

Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development.

Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation.

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition.

In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move.

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy.

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Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China.

Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion.

Volume V of theSix Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing technologies for studying water resources, including groundwater, floods, snow and ice, and wetlands.

This volume is about migration across South Asia and the complex negotiation of borders by people and the states in the process.

This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia.

Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars - including geographers Phil Hubbard, Chris Philo and Hester Parr, and sociologists Jenny Hockey, Mike Hepworth and John Urry - and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emotion.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position.

This book offers an explanatory schema for comprehending aging in a societal context, focusing on the country of Nepal.

Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students' critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of gentrification.

Fundamental societal changes in the globalising European countryside impact women's migration decisions.

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes.

Based on original fieldwork including interviews held with Japanese officials, this text provides important new insight into Japan and East Asian relations, principally through the close examination of changes in Japan's regional policy.

At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation.

This book recounts the understanding of three Vietnamese children and their mothers' experiences as they navigate being newcomers to Canada.

This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas.

Discussing common understanding of the concepts of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion, this volume critically examines the interpretation and praxis of diversity and inclusion in relation to marginalized populations-from women, sexual minorities, minority newcomers, and aboriginal communities.

How do terrorists become politicians?

Professionals involved in the planning, design, operation, and construction of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need to understand the productivity-enhancing applications of GIS.

This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound.

This book fills a number of gaps in the 'community and crime' literature, makes important theoretical contributions, and is based on original research.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

'A document of unique interest it is a picture of Europe at a most critical moment of its history, when the Continent was overwhelmed by misery, disease and unrest.

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels.

The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development.

Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception.

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology.