Human geography

Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.

London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.

Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.

The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic.

Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told.

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century?

What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency?

Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution.

The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration.

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.

500 Millionen, die das Vermögen einer indischen Prinzessin sind, warten auf einen Erben.

After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009.

In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another.

A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book.

Dans cet hymne à la joie de vivre, l’esprit libre, éclairé et de bonnes mœurs, l’auteur s’applique à penser les multiples spatialités des humains sur Terre, au quotidien et à différentes échelles, en quête d’une fraternité universelle toujours incertaine et fuyante.

The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the ';urban age' inaugurated in the twentieth century.

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

A study of how the economic meltdown of 2008-09 was a chance to reset and what our economy, society, and geography will look like in the future.

Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased.

After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

Ce numéro spécial de Géographie et Cultures intitulé "Spatialités et pratiques funéraires" interroge la thématique de la mort dans sa dimension spatiale.

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health.

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl.

L'affaiblissement du dispositif institutionnel de planification de l'économie après la crise économique du milieu des années 1980, les choix politiques et stratégiques des outils de pilotage du développement, les limites de la collecte, de l'analyse, de la diffusion et de l'utilisation des données démographiques et les crises sécuritaires que connaît le pays depuis quelques années ont poussé le gouvernement à réorienter ses efforts vers l'atteinte de l'objectif de la capture du dividende démographique.

Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions.

Par-delà les crises et les conflits, les questions économiques et le risque démographique et migratoire, les questions climatiques et l'avenir de l'eau demeurent les grands problèmes qui vont sous-tendre la sécurité collective et individuelle en Méditerranée.

Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country.

As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change.

It's hard to be excited about the future right now.

A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book.

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War.

Integrates the matriarchal teachings from Canadian Indian, Mongolian, and Maya roots to create a written manifestation of these early cultures.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "e;wageless life,"e; proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality.

Près de 30 ans de périurbanisation ont fait émerger, en France comme ailleurs, de vastes régions urbaines, parmi lesquelles la région urbaine de Lyon-St Etienne.

The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the ';urban age' inaugurated in the twentieth century.

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "e;situated ignorance"e;: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.