Human geography Books

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu. It brings together studies from highly diverse urban settings...

Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands explores everyday life and senses of identity and belonging along a contested border whose official functions and local impacts have shifted across the twentieth century. It does so through the accounts of...

Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia, this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies, examining...

By linking culture and tradition with socio-economic development, this book breaks new ground in the discourse on development. It highlights the differences between Euro-centric and African culture, where concepts such as capital accumulation,...

The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India's digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state government, and platform providers.Given the limited research on India as a case study, this...

The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas.

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative and policy dimensions of COVID - 19 pandemic in the Indian context. The book is divided into four parts. Part I highlights the social narratives from the underprivileged workers,...

This book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on evidence from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book...

This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks.

This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization mean and imply in the Nordic region.

This book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straight-forward 'functional' reforms - strategy, structure, selection, training - would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely...

This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from the perception that this type of activity is unskilled and the importance of acknowledging the expertise...

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the...

The book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local practices and local cultural history. It illustrates the utility of the value chain concept in navigating the complexities of comparative...

This compelling exploration delves into President Xi Jinping's ambitious efforts to restore China to its historical role as a global leader through innovative economic means. Xi's approach is a unique synthesis of Marxist-Developmentalist ideas, aiming...

This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions.

This book explores the intangible human capital which international migrants bring with them and develop further when working and living abroad, drawing on case studies and original data from Mexico-USA and Central Europe. 

Featuring 60 contributions from leading academics and practitioners, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Arguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Whether the situation be displacement within cities through carbon...

This book offers students an introduction to human spatial cognition and experience and is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the study of maps in the head and the psychology of space. We live in space and...

Bangladesh is by no means a high emitter of carbon, but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected. There is a significant risk of damage to lives and livelihoods due to climate change in the form of cyclones, flooding and storm...

Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the local level, and at the resulting impact on poverty, inequality and livelihoods.

Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative...

The division of 'rural' and 'urban' is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a...

International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.

As one of the world's most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank's urban programs...

Using a host of international examples Butcher examines what the advocates of 'new tourism' see as being wrong with mass tourism, looks critically at the claims made for the new alternatives and makes a case for guilt-free holidays.

This book is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies from around the world, it analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning.

This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the...

Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, eviction and homelessness.

Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as...

Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and...

This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.In the current...

This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their "greatest gift." The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of...

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.Since philosophers like Socrates debated in the ancient agora, cities have prompted arguments...

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy? This book examines the evidence of the last 500 years to challenge the two dominant narratives on the answers to this question. It argues that the explanation...

Today, citizens advocate greater environmental sustainability, better services and the improvement of urban quality by promoting safer mobility and health. Addressing these issues, Pedestrians, Urban spaces and Health contains the papers presented at the...

David Knighton's best-selling book looks at the wide range of forms developed by natural rivers and the processes responsible for that development. The book combines empirical and theoretical approaches, and provides a critical assessment of the many...

This book covers the entire syllabus of FYBSc Semester II. New courseof Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune effective from June 2019onwards. This book has been written to fulfill the basic concepts. Some ofthe features of the book are observation,...

सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठाने जून 2019 पासून बदललेल्या नवीन अभ्यासक्रमानुसार श्रेयांक पद्धत व सेमिस्टर लागू केलेली असून एफ.वाय.बी.ए. सेमिस्टर (II) करिता भूगोल विषयासाठी 'मानवी भूगोल' हे क्रमिक पाठ्यपुस्तक आपल्या विद्यार्थी, शिक्षक, भूगोल प्रेमीसाठी...

"Norwegian Life: An Account of Past and Contemporary" by Ethlyn T. Clough offers a comprehensive exploration of Norway's rich cultural tapestry, spanning historical traditions to contemporary societal structures. The book begins by delving into Norway's...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Regionalseminar "Russischer Altai", Sprache:...