Geography category: 5793 books
Circulation in Population Movement (Routledge Revivals)
Substance and concepts from the Melanesian case
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent...
Energy and Society
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition together...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress,...
by Greg Halseth, Laura Ryser
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century. It explores how rural and small town places are working to find success in a new economy marked by demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental change. How are we...
The New Economy of the Inner City
Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging,...
by Molly Scott Cato
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might look like. In spite of the success of the environmental movement in drawing attention to the...
Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption...
Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe
Spatial Disparities and Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related courses,...
Entanglements of Power
Geographies of Domination/Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.
The team of contributors...
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European...
by Helen Williams, David Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Providing guidance that helps students practice and troubleshoot their exam technique, these books send them into their exam with the confidence to aim for the best grades.
- Enables students to avoid common misconceptions and mistakes by highlighting them throughout
- Builds students' skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems,...
by Edward W. Soja
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the...
Tourism and Sustainability
Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the...