Human Geography category: 3213 books
Transforming Urban Economies
Policy Lessons from European and Asian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Cities house the majority of the world’s population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change. They are still beset by difficult problems but often demonstrate resilience in the face of regional and national economic decline. Faced...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial district formation have brought periods, places and pathways to the heart...
Education, Space and Urban Planning
Education as a Component of the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking...
Governance for Sustainable Development
Coping with ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed power
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: goals, knowledge, and power: Sustainability goals are subject to changing and controversial risk perceptions, values and interests....
European Borderlands
Living with Barriers and Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared – not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe – but rather they have changed,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources. Drawing on British, European and North American material, the book has three main objectives: to offer an integrated review of the rural...
The Diversion of Land
Conservation in a Period of Farming Contraction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
European agriculture is on the brink of a financial and ecological crisis. The authors assess the challenge facing policy makers and those involved in the industry, arguing for the preparation of an environmental agenda based on land organisation and diversion.
Problems of an Urban Society
The Social Framework of Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting. Many of the problems - of social and economic decay - are not new; indeed they are perennial problems of urban societies. As the complexities...
Countryside Planning
The First Half Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want? In the face of continued urban expansion the countryside has become a major issue, its future development uncertain. Countryside Planning addresses these concerns and provides an...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day. It covers both internal and international movements and consideration is given both to broad macro-scale analysis and more detailed micro-scale investigations.
Geopolitical Traditions
Critical Histories of a Century of Geopolitical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Condemned as an intellectul poison by the late American geographer Richard Hartshbornem geopolitics has confounded its critics. Today it remains a popular and important intellectul field despite the persistent allegations that geopolitics helped to legitimate Hitler's policies of spatial expansionism...
The Geographies of Fashion
Consumption, Space, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies from a geographer's perspective, exploring the complex relationship...
Migration, Ethics and Power
Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the burden of offering hospitality through...
Rural Politics
Policies for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy. Rural Politics examines the issues affecting rural areas, such as water pollution, forestry, and the greening of agricultural...