Human geography Books

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:...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,5, Universität Bremen (Institut für Geographie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn in den Medien derzeit von der deutschen Ostgrenze berichtet wird,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 2,1, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Bachelorarbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden...

Markets & Prosperity is a collection of 17 essays focused on the importance of leveraging markets, not government dictate, to solve Australia's most pressing challenges. Contributors from across both sides of the political aisle, academia,...

AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that...

Discover. Explore. Inspire. On the fringes of England's largest national park, now a World Heritage Site, an alternative vision emerges. In late 2017, a walk around the boundary of the Lake District uncovers a hidden landscape consumed by ghosts of...

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists...

With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing concerns about the state of food security in the region, as...

The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the World's top Green Leaders. Air Protection in the European Union Member States examines the EU members' air protection policies, by taking into consideration wider political, social and...

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies,...

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...

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...

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban...

Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Hong Kong, as the authors argue, is an archetypal place, sitting at the intersection of East and West. It is also a major center for global capital flows and world trade. Moreover,...

During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese. This book...

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an...

Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography, geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and...

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession that took hold of the global economy during the 1980s and assesses its effects on key areas of social...

Since the late eighteenth century academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural, and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities in the 'Global North'...

For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the...

This pioneering analysis from Latin America conclusively shows that not only IWRM has been unsuccessful in the past, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. Thus, a new paradigm for water management is urgently needed.

Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research...

This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'racial economy' to delineate a fundamental proposition; historically neglected and marginalized black...

Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with...

This book does an exceptional job in giving an understanding of change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict as well as their linkages, including awareness of strategies, methods and techniques to handle them relative to resource and environmental...

A presente obra tem como eixo central a análise das condicionantes histórico/sociológicas que levaram os integrantes da Comunidade da Mutuca à uma luta secular pelas terras de seus ancestrais. Historicamente, esta comunidade disputa com fazendeiros da...

This book is a descriptive analysis of a particular all-female Turkish population's premarital sexual attitudes and behaviors. It explores the effects of background and attitudinal variables on attitudes toward women's premarital sexuality. The...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Regionalprodukte als Motor nachhaltiger Regionalentwicklung, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,4, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Die Tropen: Agrar- und Sozialgeographie eines...