Human Geography category: 3213 books
by Peter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies...
by Fraser MacDonald, Charles W.J. Withers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration...
Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)
Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions. Five different groups of authors, who have written broadly in the fields of industrial and social geography, discuss this relationship and...
Urban Geography
A Study of Site, Evolution, Patern and Classification in Villages, Towns and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is divided into three parts. The first deals with typical settelements in each of the seven continents, the early stages of settlements, land surveys and general phases of town evolution. The second part discusses changes in site and patter, from Neolithic to modern times. The third part...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Although traditional areas of study such as agriculture and the land-use patterns of the countryside remained important, scholars also began...
Land, Water and Development
Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with improving our management of fresh water...
The Geography of Contemporary China
The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Deng Xiaoping's rule has seen fundamental economic change in China. This book considers the impact of these years on China's physical environment, as well as its people, industry, agriculture and trade. It also assesses the contribution of a decade of Chinese politics towards geopolitics. The book...
Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty
Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision...
Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods
Connecting People, Participation and Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to mainstream...
GIS and the Social Sciences
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis, and demonstrates the importance...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This book presents a selection of readings to present varied opinions, approaches and reports from various international professional journals. Among the journals represented are: Regional Science Association Journal, The Canadian Geographer, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Ranging from the poverty and exploding population of Bangladesh to the dazzling technology and ageing population of Japan, from the two most populous states of India and China to the tiny states of Singapore and the Maldives and to the emptiness of Siberia, Asia contains the greatest diversity of...
Urban Social Geography
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking...
People and Environment
Behavioural Approaches in Human Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.