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Place

A Short Introduction

by Tim Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013

This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamental concept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts in human geography Marries everyday uses of...
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by Paul Knox, John A Agnew, Linda Mccarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

The Geography of the World Economy provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the globalization of the world economy. The book offers a consideration of local, regional, national and global economic development over the long historical term. The theory and practice of economic and political...
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Tourism and Sustainability

Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998

The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry bridges the gap between tourism research and economic geography by bringing together leading academics in geography, planning and tourism. The authors explain tourism's definitions and examine whether tourism can be categorized as an industry. They provide detailed analyses of key sectors, such as tour
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Geographic Thought

A Critical Introduction

by Tim Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge of the field, from ancient geography to contemporary non-representational...
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Gramsci

Space, Nature, Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci’s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. Offers...
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by Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure...
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Adaptation to Climate Change

From Resilience to Transformation

by Mark Pelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound...
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by LearningExpress LLC Editors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Geography in 20 Minutes a Day gives insight into the physical, economic, and political makeup of the world.This comprehensive book contains short, focused lessons on each continent’s physical features, capital cities, ruling governments, economy, and more. It also examines the basis for recent environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought. Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies...
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Rural Geography

Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

by Dr Michael Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004

"Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art." - Geographische Rundschau "With Rural Geography Michael Woods...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Since the 1970s, the field of political geography has undergone a significant transformation, where new methodologies have been implemented to investigate the exercise of the power of the state within the urban environment. First published in 1985, the essays in this collection addressed the growing...
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by Victoria Lawson, Victoria Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

Making Development Geography is a timely new book which introduces readers to the major themes and debates in development geography. It argues cogently that the field is engaged in an ongoing process of reinventing itself as critical development geography, and highlights issues such as identity, globalization,...
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The Geography of the Ocean

Knowing the ocean as a space

by Anne-Flore Laloë
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse...
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