Human geography

'Hegemonic nutrition' is produced and proliferated by a wide variety of social institutions such as mainstream nutrition science, clinical nutrition as well as those less classically linked such as life science/agro-food companies, the media, family, education, religion and the law.

Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention.

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south.

During the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialisation of deadly military stand-off.

This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography.

This volume of the Bibliographical Series is a thoroughly revised English edition, with many additions, of the author's 'Chronique de l'histoire coloniale.

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use.

Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities.

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

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space.

This volume explores the rich pre-history, history, and oral history of the northeast region of India--a land-locked region that is home to over 350 ethnolinguistic communities.

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure.

Handbook of International Economics, Sixth Edition provides a definitive reference for researchers and advanced graduate students.

This volume has been compiled with great assistance from the Report on the Settlement of the Sadar subdivision of the Puri district, by Mr.

This title was first published in 2001.

Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society The volume synthesizes a rapidly growing body of research on the bicycle, its past and present uses, its technological evolution, its use in diverse geographical settings, its aesthetics and its deployment in art and literature.

At a time when food producers have to make significant changes to their businesses in order to survive, a review of benchmarking in agriculture and discussion of its future potential is critical.

Following the turbulent events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of new security and disaster measures have led to significant changes to urban design and the management of urban space.

The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

Bangladesh has low levels of urbanization but a high urban population in absolute terms, being one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

Der Band zeigt auf, wo bei Migranten Neigungen zum Journalistenberuf bestehen und wo es bei Medien die Bereitschaft zur Beschäftigung von Journalisten mit Einwanderungsgeschichte gibt.

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance.

This book examines changes of citizenship in the light of dislocated habitations.

This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940.

Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous task of instating women's experience of space into spatial praxis.

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South.

Part of a mini-series of Focus books on COVID-19 in Malaysia, the chapters in this book address the pandemic's impact on business and the economy in Malaysia.

Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS).

Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value.

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history.

The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role.

In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food.

'The region' has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century - the nation state.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions.

This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.

This book offers fresh perspectives on issues of food justice.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of technology start-up arenas in Nairobi and examines their global place.

The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy.

This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil.

Fondée dans le cadre de la Chaire "Interculturalités méditerranéennes", labélisée par l'UNESCO en 2023, la revue Médiations méditerranéennes est emblématique de la mission qu'elle veut remplir dans le champ des recherches et des études en rapport avec l'espace méditerranéen.

Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "e;best"e; through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "e;worst"e; as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers.

The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies.

Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society.

This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective.

Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research.

Information shapes urban spaces in ways that most people rarely stop to consider.

Environment and Politics 4th Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, explaining and illustrating how concepts, conflicts, movements, political systems and the practices of policy-making can be analysed in a systematic way.