Human Geography category: 3213 books
What is a Disaster?
A Dozen Perspectives on the Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological happenings such as earthquakes and chemical explosions?
In What is a Disaster?, social science disaster researchers...
by M. P. Cowen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Environment, Growth and Development
The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Agendas for Sustainability
Environment and Development into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the...
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World
A Regional Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent...
Women and Work in South Asia
Regional Patterns and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Women's work is central to the social and economic aspirations of the countries of South Asia. Their contribution to agriculture, industry and services is critical. However, planners and policy makers frequently ignore women's economic roles, drawing simplistic conclusions from inadequate data. Women...
by Barney Warf
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial...
by Rajesh Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Developing countries have undergone significant industrialization in the last three decades. Yet industrial growth reveals marked spatial inequalities in terms of both country and location. The Newly Industrialised Countries have achieved spectacular growth in sharp contrast to many other countries...
Arresting Development
The power of knowledge for social change
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Scholars have become increasingly concerned about the impact of neo-liberalism on the field of development. Governments around the world have for some time been exposed to the forces of globalization and macro-economic reform, reflecting the power and influence of the world’s principal international...
by David B Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and...
Development Projects as Policy Experiments
An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach...
The New Urban Economics
And Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book was first published in 1977.
Urban Planning Under Thatcherism
The Challenge of the Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Originally published in 1991, Urban Planning Under Thatcherism links theory and practice to assess the changes to the planning system since 1979. It analyses the major trends by investigating the individual modifications in the legislation and the new initiatives which have introduced procedures to...