Human geography

Cities and Digital Platforms unravels the transformative impact of digital platforms such as Airbnb and Zoom on urban landscapes, illustrating their profound influence on housing, city planning, and the broader economic fabric.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

From the vantage point of rural grandparents' mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media.

This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples (Canadian Inuit, Norwegian Sami, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific.

Geographic Profiling explores this cutting edge investigative methodology for determining the most probable area of an offender's residence by analyzing the locations of a series of connected crimes.

Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative knowledge to inform transport futures.

Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography.

This volume brings together a range of contributions exploring the diverse ways in which children and young people experience movements, im/mobilities and journeys at different geographical scales and in different socio-spatial contexts.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize.

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

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

This book explores one of the most pressing issues of our time: development, a concern that has persisted from the past century through to today, and is increasingly intertwined with challenges related to environmental sustainability and growing inequalities.

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy.

Gender Analysis of the Corruption and Youth Unemployment Nexus in African Countries: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Approach
Abdessalem GOUIDER, Hedi BEN HADDAD

The EU Aid for Trade and its Impact on Trade Performance with Recipient Countries: A Disaggregated Assessment
Yawa AWA, Nicolas PERIDY

Les effets de l’urbanisation sur l’accès aux services de base en Afrique
Armand TOTOUOM, Hervé NENGHEM TAKAM

Effet de la vulnérabilité économique sur la dette extérieure en Afrique subsaharienne : le rôle des ressources naturelles et de la qualité des institutions
Mohamed Tidjane KINDA, Pam ZAHONOGO

Effects of income inequality on COVID-19 in Africa: Accounting for literacy and informal sector
Sévérin TAMWO, Etayibtalnam KOUDJOM, Aurelien KAMDEM YEYOUOMO

Taille de l’économie informelle et croissance économique dans les pays de l’UEMOA
Souleymane OUEDRAOGO, Abou KANE

Tunisian Inclusive Education: A Multi-Pronged Regional Approach
Nadia ZRELLI BEN HAMIDA

Solvabilité réelle des collectivités locales tunisiennes et équilibre budgétaire
Faycal RADDAOUI

Inégalités régionales et étapes de développement : une déformation de la courbe en cloche
Maurice CATIN

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific.

Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize, and model geographic data with open source software.

Sustainable design is a collective process whereby the built environment achieves unprecedented levels of ecological balance through new and retrofit construction, with the goal of long-term viability and humanization of architecture.

Ethnography: The Basics introduces a broad and beginner audience to ethnography as a research methodology with diverse applications.

The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the integration of cutting-edge geospatial technologies.

Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere.

This visually compelling book delves into the urgent reality of our changing climate.

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them.

Ice animates the look and feel of climate change.

Unsere geographischen Vorstellungen von der Welt erscheinen uns klar – doch viele entpuppen sich schnell als Mythen: Wir glauben zu wissen, was Kontinente sind – aber wo genau endet Europa, wo beginnt Asien?

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poets image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the worlds ecosystems.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Geologists and civil engineers related to infrastructure planning, design and building describe professional practices and engineering geological methods in different European infrastructure projects.

Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology.

By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler's forces.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and civic engagement.