Human Geography category: 3213 books
by T. R. Oke
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
Cultures and Disasters
Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?...
Neoliberal Environments
False Promises and Unnatural Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This volume explores the nexus between nature, markets, deregulation and valuation, using theoretically sharp and empirically rich real-world case studies and analyses of actually existing policy from around the world and across a range of resources. In short, it answers the questions: does neoliberalizing...
Consuming Cities
The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.
Consuming Cities examines this impact...
Rural Governance
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)?
The case studies in...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
The Global Cultural Capital
Addressing the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979. Through analysis of official documents, municipal publicity campaigns, sport – including the Olympic Games and Barcelona F.C – and film, Balibrea makes sense...
by Gary Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and...
The Point Is To Change It
Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it
Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider...
The Political Ecology of the State
The basis and the evolution of environmental statehood
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role.
The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to...
by Jim Kemeny
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences. This book is the first to treat housing as a subject of social theory. It provides a critique of current research and theorises housing in relation to political...
by Ted Benton, Michael Redclift
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact.
The authors explore the relationship between social theory...
Splintering Urbanism
Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:
*globalization and the city
*technology...