Human Geography category: 3213 books
Integrating Environment and Economy
Strategies for Local and Regional Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Integrating Environment and Economy provides a detailed and accessible examination of how integrated approaches enable economic and social activities to support environmental objectives. This is a key text for the many taught Masters courses covering the issues of environmental management and economic...
Planning in the USA
Policies, Issues, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature...
by John Black, David Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to housing policy and finance in Britain. It describes changes in the condition and tenure of housing in the post-war period, and contrasts the massive investment in house building and improvement with allegations that housing conditions are deteriorating....
The Globalization of American Infrastructure
The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the...
Community Impact Evaluation
Principles And Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
This is a work summarizing in one volume the pioneering approach of the author to public-interest decision-taking in the field of urban & regional planning. This book is aimed at students, researchers and professionals in planning. Nathaniel Lichfield first introduced in his "Economics of...
Accident And Design
Contemporary Debates On Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, and the case for each position is put forward, the whole discussion being set in context and perspective. This volume attempts to identify...
Urban Planning Methods
Research and Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In order to develop and exercise their skills urban planners need to draw upon a wide variety of methods relating to plan and policy making, urban research and policy analysis. More than ever, planners need to be able to adapt their methods to contemporary needs and circumstances. This introductory...
Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects
Frontiers and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and...
Consuming Interests
The Social Provision of Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Combining theory, research and policy Consuming Interests provides a topical interdisciplinary exploration into the nature of food provision, policy and regulation. The book provides a detailed examination of corporate retailers, state agencies and consumer organisations involved in the food sector....
Bangladesh's Leather Industry
Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arrangements including illicit practices are conducive...
Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads
Place, Practice, Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Maria Gravari-Barbas is Professor of Geography at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is also in charge of the IREST (Institute of Research and Higher Studies on tourism) and EIREST (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Tourism Studies). She leads the UNESCO Chair "Culture, Tourism,...
Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife
Hunting, Shooting and Sport Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Consumptive forms of wildlife tourism (hunting, shooting and fishing) have become a topic of interest – both to the tourism industry, in terms of destinations seeking to establish or grow this sector, and to other stakeholders such as environmental organisations, animal-rights groups, and the general...
Managing the Infosphere
Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate...
by 'Bola Ayeni
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1979, discusses the concepts, models and techniques used in urban analysis and planning. This study reviews many of the older concepts and models of urban spatial structure, laying the foundations of analysis carried out in the later parts of the book. Topics such as...