Human Geography category: 3213 books
Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption...
Entanglements of Power
Geographies of Domination/Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.
The team of contributors...
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems,...
Urban Theory Beyond the West
A World of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of...
Why Place Matters
Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this...
by Marcus Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across the globe. Rethinking Development Geographies offers a stimulating and critical introduction...
Creative Economies, Creative Communities
Rethinking Place, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between community, policy and practice and how they are co-constituted. The role of the creative economy and broader cultural policy within community development is problematised...
by Susie Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The redistribution of land has profound implications for women and for gender relations; however, gender issues have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions of agrarian reform. This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally. Jacobs highlights...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example,...
A History of Spaces
Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography,...
Renewing Urban Communities
Environment, Citizenship and Sustainability in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Ireland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent years. This inter-disciplinary book adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development values...