Geography category: 5793 books
Environmental Impact Assessment
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This comprehensive treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides an authoritative contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the...
Knowledge and the City
Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of...
The Urban Community
A World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
by John Rex
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city. In the present book these two related areas are brought together. Professor Rex discusses imperialistic social systems, and examines the position...
by Jaime Luque
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
This book covers the main aspects of regional and urban economics and presents state-of-the-art theories in a comprehensive and concise way. The book will be of interest to undergraduates in business and economics and covers specific areas such as real estate, urban and regional planning and geography and development studies.
Ecology and Equity
The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses...
The Dynamics of Cities
Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Dimitrios Dendrinos, an expert in the application of non-linear dynamics and chaos theory to the subject of urban and regional dynamics, focuses here on fundamental issues in population growth and decline. He approaches the topic of urban growth and decline within a global system perspective, viewing...
Southeast Asia
The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth?
This book charts the development...
Climate Change and Human Mobility
Challenges to the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines...
by Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...
What is a Disaster?
A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions?
In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers...
by M. P. Cowen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Environment, Growth and Development
The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Agendas for Sustainability
Environment and Development into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the...