Geography category: 5793 books
Spaces of Congestion and Traffic
Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called ‘the traffic problem’.
It draws on case studies of historical traffic projects...
Reanimating Places
A Geography of Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Time-space relationships are central to human geography. This book seeks to reanimate time-space, by considering the links between lived experience, various temporalities and particular places in terms of compounded and contested rhythms. Time-space rhythms emphasize the practical, symbolic, everyday...
Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the...
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Interruptions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.
Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban...
Alternative Food Politics
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where ‘alternative’ food practices are increasingly visible. Concerns that were once exclusively the domain of activist movements motivated by environmental, animal rights, health and anti-corporate...
by Antoinette Mannion
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Natural Environmental Change offers a concise introduction to this key topic in the study of the environment, geography, and earth science. Illustrated throughout, each chapter provides a broad spectrum of international case studies and further reading guides. Introductory chapters examine the theories...
Mapping Versatile Boundaries
Understanding the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses. It provides unique mapping perspectives on the Balkan region, with over 140 illustrations. The book is dedicated to applied, historical and economic...
by Julian Mayes, Dennis Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Global climate and the effects of global warming are commanding unprecendented interest as climates grow more dynamic and changeable. How does global warming change patterns of climate? Why is the weather and climate of the British Isles so variable?
Regional Climates of the British Isles presents...
System Theory in Geomorphology
Challenges, Epistemological Consequences and Practical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Empirical research needs a profound theory to be successful. This is the simple but, in its consequences, radical approach for this study in geomorphology. It critically analyses the current system understanding and offers a new view for a geomorphology that understands systems as being open but at...
Britain, Spain and Gibraltar 1945-1990
The Eternal Triangle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Since 1945 Gibraltar's sovereignty has repeatedly been questioned. A strategic possession overlooking Africa at the mouth of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar is the victim of both history and geography and continues to be the barometer of Anglo-Spanish relations. Arguing that Gibraltar has played a much...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The major themes explored in this book, originally published in 1986, are the political resonances of social stratification and change; the growing distance between the working class and the providers of social services; and the role of locality in social reproduction.
The relationship between...
Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean
Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment.
Ideal...
Violence in Place, Cultural and Environmental Wounding
Cultural and Environmental Wounding
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites it becomes the anchorage point for ethnic, cultural and national identities. Yet it is also place that becomes the battlefield, war zone, mass grave, desecrated site and destroyed landscape in the...
Arts in Place
The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the process....