Human geography

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War.

By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment.

In response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate.

Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere.

Transboundary watercourses account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in a series of issues related to migration, including identity formation and change, the role of social capital and social networks, ethnic discrimination, racism and xenophobia, socio-political participation and mobilisation and the complex nature of the causal mechanisms linked to migration - issues that are better highlighted and investigated using qualitative methods.

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

First published in 1974.

Geographical economics starts from the observation that economic activity is clearly not randomly distributed across space.

Surveying the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Implications: Urban Health, Data Technology and Political Economy explores social, economic, and policy impacts of COVID-19 that will persist for some time.

Originally published in French as Le territoire europeen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has seen in the past half century.

Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history.

As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers.

Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies.

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings.

Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements-commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios-are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world.

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world.

The 21st century has been called the "e;century of the city.

The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities presents a series of ethnographic studies, focusing on the local cultures of mobilities and immobilities, emphasizing the everyday sense of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them.

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat.

Forestry has been witness to some dramatic changes in recent years, with several Western countries now moving away from the traditional model of regarding forests merely as sources of wood.

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century?

This major study, first published in 1989, examines Western Europe's urban problems in unprecedented breadth and depth.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009-better known as the Stimulus Act-leaves no business, no American untouched.

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities.

The innovation in space technologies has generated a new method for observing and monitoring tsunamis from space.

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world.

The purpose of this book is neither to duplicate overviews of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) nor to recapitulate narrative treatments of the European integration process.

This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world.

It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated.

This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century.

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day.

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes.

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet's Chile.

As a continuation of our award-winning book, 'China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality' and our recent book, '30 Years of Urban Change in China's 10 Core Cities', this book delves into China's recent progress in reshaping its cities through holistic urban transformation strategies.

Can the British plan?

Originally published in 1979, these essays provide a guide to the labyrinth of issues which together made up 'housing policy' in the late 20th Century.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region.

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent.

Despite the widespread promotion of children's voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people's knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty.

This book builds on the latest research on India's partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.