Human Geography category: 3213 books
Tourism and Global Environmental Change
Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely...
by Goh Kim Chuan, Mark Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
This unique study is the first in depth examination of the environment and development of the Straits. Taking an integrative approach, the book argues that the region has an underlying unity which political divisions (between Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore) disguise.
Its emphasis is on three major...
Geographies of Difference
Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state,...
by Richard Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Originally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the context of policy options and constraints. The book looks at the issue of South Africa’s future including access to land and housing, marked regional differences in well-being,...
City, Region and Regionalism
A geographical contribution to human ecology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book was first published in 1947.
by Katrina Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected social,...
by David J. Telfer, Richard Sharpley
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Tourism is widely considered to be an important factor in socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite almost universal recognition of tourism’s development potential, the extent to which economic and social progress is linked to the growth of a country’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize,...
Constructuring The Countryside
An Approach To Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing,...
Urban Planning and the Housing Market
International Perspectives for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change. The relationship between planning and the housing market is a contested problem across research, policy, and practice. Problems with housing supply and affordability...
Landscapes of Liminality
Between Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already...
Urban Space and Cityscapes
Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. With specially-commissioned...
by Danny Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society...
Environmental Justice
Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities...