Human Geography category: 3213 books
The Geography of Beer
Regions, Environment, and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This edited collection examines the various influences, relationships, and developments beer has had from distinctly spatial perspectives. The chapters explore the functions of beer and brewing from unique and sometimes overlapping historical, economic, cultural, environmental and physical viewpoints.
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Global Environmental Issues
A Climatological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
This book provides a balanced account of the global environmental issues which threaten our society and which we neglect at our peril. Analysing both social and environmental components of the issues - global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and drought - the book offers a valuable integrative...
World Savannas
Ecology and Human Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
An interdisciplinary text on the world's savannas, covering the geography, ecology, economics and politics of savanna regions. Savannas are a distinct vegetation type, covering a third of the world's land surface area and supporting a fifth of the world's population. There has been a wide range of...
The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries
Essays for Alan B. Mountjoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national...
by Michael Samers, Michael Collyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts.
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An Introduction to Population Geographies
Lives Across Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the sheer diversity of its approaches, key concepts and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It explains both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial effects of these policies within cities and highlights the prominent role of cities in the new geography...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ethno-cultural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region....
Carceral Mobilities
Interrogating Movement in Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move.
At first glance, the words ‘carceral’ and ‘mobilities’ seem to sit...
Cities of Pleasure
Sex and the Urban Socialscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:
the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Social Ecology is an emerging concept situated in the field of critical social theory and new integrative sciences that addresses the complex and interrelated relationship between nature and society, offering a perspective on how environmental issues are embedded in a social context. Border landscapes...
Urban Geopolitics
Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often focus on the abstract city level with...
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy
Resistance and Destabilization of Racist Regulatory Policies and B/Ordering mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatter’s movements have evolved over past decades. The complexity and importance of squatting practices are analyzed from a bottom-up perspective, to demonstrate how the spaces of squatting can be...