Geography Books

Placing human action and perception at the centre of the subject, this book considers the effects of mankind on the environment, drawing particularly from William Kirk's work on the behavioural environment model. Reviewing Kirk's original model in light...

This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of shallow lake communities as it has evolved over the past years from a combination of empirical studies, experimental work and model analysis...

The purpose of Agriculture and the Citizen is to help people understand the way in which agriculture operates, providing the information necessary to enable them to arrive at an informed view on major issues: can the...

The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South presents a unique, timely, comprehensive overview of livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. Since their widespread adoption in the 1990s, livelihoods perspectives, frameworks and methods...

Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport accessibility, this volume discusses the position of urban and rural transport problems of the elderly and disabled in the UK, USA,...

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator and...

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism. While historical work on philanthropy has long suggested a link between imperial rule and humanitarian aid,...

One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities. Sovereign recipient states should lead the process of development. Yet...

This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of...

Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of...

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies is gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed,  managed , and experienced. This book examines how computers see the public space and the effect...

The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment by showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world's scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory,...

Wine tourism or enotourism or oenotourism or winery tourism or vinitourism is a special interest tourism that empowers local culture and spawns business opportunities for the local community. The comprehensive Routledge Handbook of Wine Tourism offers a...

First published in 1984, The Mediterranean Region considers the broad economic and political problems facing the region from a variety of perspectives. The book features the work of international experts on the Mediterranean region. It discusses the...

This book presents an exploration of the intersection between tourism and Indigenous culture.

This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.This text not...

This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island's two distinct political units. Highlighting key geographic themes of bordering,...

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from...

This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges faced by the mega-city regions and opens up avenues for...

This book is about interconnections-those among the historical, geographic, demographic, social, economic, and ecological aspects of development-as well as how Central Americans struggle with the interplay of increasing poverty and environmental...

The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change. However the rate of change has accelerated during the last hundred years, due largely to human impacts and this has led to a...

Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?' 'Why are we doing it?'. These questions have, so far, been more enthusiastically taken up by human...

River Channel Management is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management. It explores the multi-disciplinary nature of river channel management in relation to modern management techniques that bear the...

Mountain environments are often perceived to be austere, isolated, and inhospitable. In fact, these areas are of immense value to mankind, providing direct life support to close to 10 percent of the world's population and sustaining a wide variety of...

The human geography of the UK is currently being reshaped by a number of forces - such as globalisation, transition in the organisations of production, the changing character of state intervention, and changing relationships with Europe. A consideration...

Preface Introduction; F.Fischler PART I: GENERAL POLICY A Policy for Agriculture An Overview of the Policies of the European Union The Treaties and the Institutions of the European Union The Agricultural Policy of the United State A Currency for the...

A more human geography means one that reflectson geographical phenomena with the aim of better achievingunderstanding of man and his condition. In this sense, thehumanist approach in geography, possessing the phenomenologyexistential as the underlying...

In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten expandierten Supermarktketten aus dem Globalen Norden in Länder des Globalen Südens. Insbesondere Länder mit einem raschen wirtschaftlichen Wachstum und damit neuen Marktpotentialen waren dabei Expansionsziele. Zugleich...

Fifty years after the Arusha Declaration, this book sets out to reevaluate one of the most important roots of Tanzania's Ujamaa Socialism: The Ruvuma Development Association. Based on a basic-democratic movement of young politicized farmers, this...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 1,7, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar "Trends,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 2,3, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie), Veranstaltung:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Regionale Geographie: Südfrankreich, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Sozialgeorpahie III, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Das Image...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: keine, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Human- und Geoökologie, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: keine, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen; Standort Geislingen (Immobilienwirtschaft), Sprache:...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 2,15, Universität Bremen (Institut für Geographie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.1 Einführung und Vorstellung der...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Geographisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: Bestanden, Universität Bremen, Veranstaltung: System Erde, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Atmosphäre auf unserem...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 1,0, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Geowissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Physische Geographie,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Geowissenschaften / Geographie, Note: 1, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit „Die Bedeutung verschiedener Einstiegsformen im Geographieunterricht am Beispiel ausgewählter...

Recently the interest in green environmentally friendly products and services increased dramatically. This trend does not stop at tourism related products. Therefore, this work will have a closer look at the sustainability issues in the hospitality...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Phys. Geogr., Geomorphologie, Umweltforschung, Note: 2, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Global Change, Sprache:...

Die Vermessungskunde von Matthews ist eines der weitverbreitetsten Lehr- und Fachbücher für Studium und Praxis zu diesem Thema - nach der Neubearbeitung der 28. Auflage von Teil 1 1996 schließt Teil 2 nun in der 17. Auflage das...

Als ich kurz nach meiner Rückkehr aus Australien von dem Mitherausgeber dieser Studienbuchreihe E. Wirth gefragt wurde, ob ich bereit sei, ein kurzes, einführendes Studienbuch zur geographischen Fernerkundung zu schreiben, war...

Life is an adventure. Some things we can control, other experiences randomly happen. We can choose the environment, however, and the Deschutes River located in Central Oregon has had a significant impact on my life. Through poems, essays, and photographs...