Human Geography category: 3213 books
The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader
Global Environment, Society and Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Reader is the first comprehensive history of the noosphere and biosphere. Drawing on classical influences, modern parallels, and insights into the future, the Reader traces the emergence of noosphere and biosphere concepts within the concept of environmental change. Reproducing material from seminla...
Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000
Paradigms and Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Viewed more broadly, disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that concerns our relationship with space,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume ‘Water, Earth and Man’ (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography. This volume brings together the systematic theme of geomorphology...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume ‘Water, Earth and Man’ (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography. This volume brings together the systematic theme of physical hydrology...
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
On the 2 March 1899 the British flag was hoisted on the Antarctic continent. The event - recorded in the first ever photograph taken on Antarctica - claimed possession on behalf of the British crown. A century later, 14,000 feet beneath the North Pole, a mini-submarine attached to a nuclear-powered...
by John Newson, Elizabeth Newson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The subject of migration has traditionally been analysed through the lens of economic factors. The importance of adopting a gender sensitive perspective to academic work is now generally appreciated. Migration and Gender in the Developed World contains chapters from a diverse range of leading contributors...
Uneven Development and Regionalism
State, Territory and Class in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.
Making a Living in Europe
Human Geographies of Economic Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Will 'making a Living' remain a dream for the deprived and excluded?
Jobs are one of Europe's most important problems. Employment provides the basic means of distributing wealth in society, in providing for families, and ensuring pensions for the elderly. Yet unemployment, and increasingly 'non-employment',...
Southeastern Geographer
Innovations in Southern Studies, Winter 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 51, Number 4 (Winter 2011)
Introduction: With Thanks
Graham A. Tobin and Robert Brinkmann
Innovations in Southern Studies within Geography
Derek H. Alderman and William Graves
The Bible Belt in a Changing South: Shrinking, Relocating, and Multiple...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in...
Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains
Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh...
An Unruly World?
Globalization, Governance and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft...