Geography category: 5793 books
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,...
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,...
The Road to Botany Bay
An Exploration of Landscape and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul...
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 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...
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...
Smoking Geographies
Space, Place and Tobacco
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.
Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:
* theories of post-modern geopolitics
* historical formulations of states and cold wars
* the...
Leisure/Tourism Geographies
Practices and Geographical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires.
The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies...
Seductions of Place
Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power.
This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemplified by the black, feminist and gay liberation, has developed...
Memory, Place and Identity
Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict.
This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through...