Geography

Cet essai traite des illusions égalitaires révélées par la place accordée à la classe moyenne dont l’existence est questionnée.

Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works.

This title was first published in 2003.

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the problem faced by planners, county councils, transport, health and education authorities as well as the inhabitants of rural Britain, of the inaccessibility of many areas of the UK.

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the problem faced by planners, county councils, transport, health and education authorities as well as the inhabitants of rural Britain, of the inaccessibility of many areas of the UK.

First published in 1978, Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them.

The North American Forests: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found on this continent grow in silvical associations - called forest cover types.

Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners.

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

The concept of mobility has grown enormously over the last two decades.

The North American Forests: Geography, Ecology, and Silviculture describes where, why, and how the many kinds of trees found on this continent grow in silvical associations - called forest cover types.

First published in 1978, Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them.

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

Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners.

Exploring how and why communication breakdowns occur during pandemics and world disasters, this book offers solutions for improving communication and managing future public health crises.

Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works.

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book highlights how knowledge creation processes influence higher education systems, society, and African development.

This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education on chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) hazards.

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book highlights how knowledge creation processes influence higher education systems, society, and African development.

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment.

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment.

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism.

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism.

The Russia-Ukraine war that began in 2022 turned the world's attention on Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe and one of the leading global exporters of wheat and other valuable commodities.

Discover The Geographic Approach to enabling science for a more exceptional planet.

Keen to learn but short on time?

Keen to learn but short on time?

The Russia-Ukraine war that began in 2022 turned the world's attention on Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe and one of the leading global exporters of wheat and other valuable commodities.

This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written.

In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes.

Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography.

Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a 'new beginning'.

Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography.

This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective.

This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective.

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

The book addresses the situation of the urban world in Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century.

This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre's Marxism on the one hand, and that of real estate development on the other.

This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre's Marxism on the one hand, and that of real estate development on the other.

Drawing on the latest research in health geography and a wide range of case studies from across the world, this comprehensive and authoritative study offers students an unrivalled analysis of the geographical connections of global health and the challenges they present for governance and treatment.

Drawing on the latest research in health geography and a wide range of case studies from across the world, this comprehensive and authoritative study offers students an unrivalled analysis of the geographical connections of global health and the challenges they present for governance and treatment.

Originally published in 1983, this book examines the problems of fertility in predicting population trends.

Originally published in 1975, this volume examines conceptual and theoretical aspects of the study of internal migration, both in chapters dealing specifically with theory and data and in case studies.

Originally published in 1956, this book considers the practical problems of economic development in countries in which the prevailing outlook and a recent or probable increase in population growth make it difficult to escape from a 'Malthusian situation.

Originally published in 1924 and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published, the author assumes that people exercise their powers of reproduction near to capacity.

Parcourir durant de longs temps les territoires du grand Nord, des terres d'Ellesmere, de Baffin, du Groenland et du Svalbard engage le voyageur à porter loin le regard.

Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding.

Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work.

Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world's success stories on population.