Human geography

This contributed volume takes a holistic view of the international waste trade and in doing so argues that the transfer of plastic waste from mainly Global North to primarily Global South countries constitutes a form of 21st Century colonialism.

Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology.

Eritrean refugees crisscross between countries in the Horn of Africa and North Africa in search of a safe place.

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations.

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.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements.

This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students.

Sustainability is a key concept used by social scientists interested in interactions between human society and the environment.

This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work.

Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact - contaminants do not respect country borders.

A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day.

To many, a border is a geographical fact.

The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regarded as approximately true descriptions of a cycle's causal structure or whether they can be no more than useful predictive instruments.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues.

These are the final results and reflections of the project MEA-Scope.

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world?

Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid.

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development.

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today.

The second annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook; this collection looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies and to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets.

Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict.

With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems.

This book highlights the importance of clusters for the competitiveness of companies and is divided into three interrelated parts.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

This book recounts France's responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival.

Sustainability & Scarcity addresses a gap in the literature on green building recognized by many in the fields of international development, architecture, construction, housing and sustainability.

This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses.

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

Future development in the Arctic and Subarctic region requires careful attention to the possible consequences of the development activities themselves, in relation to their environmental, socioeconomic and cultural impacts.

Les villes occupent une place de plus en plus importante dans une Afrique en rapide croissance démographique urbaine et font face à plusieurs enjeux et défis d’aménagement, d’équipement, de mobilité et d’emploi.

The spread of newly 'invented' places, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, necessitates a redefinition of the concept of 'place' from an architectural perspective.

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU).

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world.

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands.

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance.

Key Methods in Geography is the perfect introductory companion, providing an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods for human and physical geography.

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where 'alternative' food practices are increasingly visible.

The People's Property?