Human Geography category: 3213 books
The Valley of the Fallen
And Other Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Few writers can match journalist Donald Katz’s ability to make an exotic locale familiar or transform an ordinary place into something peculiar if not completely weird. The Valley of the Fallen and Other Places gathers a pastiche of stories from around the world, each of which subtly underlines...
Spaces of Congestion and Traffic
Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called ‘the traffic problem’.
It draws on case studies of historical traffic projects...
Reframing Climate Change
Constructing ecological geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
"Change the system, not the climate" is a common slogan of climate change activists. Yet when this idea comes into the academic and policy realm, it is easy to see how climate change discourse frequently asks the wrong questions. Reframing Climate Change encourages social scientists, policy-makers,...
by Simon Haslett
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2000
Coastal Systems offers a concise introduction to the processes, landforms, ecosystems, and management of coasts. Each chapter is illustrated and includes topical case studies from around the world such as:
* Tsunami's in Papua New Guinea
* cliff collapse in Southern England
* the Great Barrier Reef
*...
Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the...
Everyday Lifestyles and Sustainability
The Environmental Impact Of Doing The Same Things Differently
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth’s bio-capacity to supply humanity’s needs, meaning that people are living off earth’s capital rather than its income. However, not all countries are equal and this book explores why apparently similar patterns of daily living can lead...
Alternative Food Politics
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where ‘alternative’ food practices are increasingly visible. Concerns that were once exclusively the domain of activist movements motivated by environmental, animal rights, health and anti-corporate...
by Antoinette Mannion
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Natural Environmental Change offers a concise introduction to this key topic in the study of the environment, geography, and earth science. Illustrated throughout, each chapter provides a broad spectrum of international case studies and further reading guides. Introductory chapters examine the theories...
Mapping Versatile Boundaries
Understanding the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses. It provides unique mapping perspectives on the Balkan region, with over 140 illustrations. The book is dedicated to applied, historical and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
The foundations of health sciences need rethinking. The mechanistic biomedical model, apparently so successful in the past, is now criticised for failing to explain what health is and how it can be preserved. The world's major health problems no longer seem so controllable.
A new science of health...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the health of those...
by Julian Mayes, Dennis Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Global climate and the effects of global warming are commanding unprecendented interest as climates grow more dynamic and changeable. How does global warming change patterns of climate? Why is the weather and climate of the British Isles so variable?
Regional Climates of the British Isles presents...
Vietnam's Socialist Servants
Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of domestic...
Britain, Spain and Gibraltar 1945-1990
The Eternal Triangle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Since 1945 Gibraltar's sovereignty has repeatedly been questioned. A strategic possession overlooking Africa at the mouth of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar is the victim of both history and geography and continues to be the barometer of Anglo-Spanish relations. Arguing that Gibraltar has played a much...