Human Geography category: 3213 books
by Susan Buckingham
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Accessible and lively, this is the first introductory level text to introduce the key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This text provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of how environmental issues have a differential impact on women...
Preventing Famine
Policies and prospects for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1979. Phenomena such as high levels of unemployment, decaying and vandalised council estates, poor educational achievements by schoolchildren and the population decline in inner cities are just some of the problems challenged by this important work. The contributors from such...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the changing position of the Developing World within the world system. It focuses on particular issues which cut across communities, nations, regions and, in consequence, the world. These include migration, health and disease, the media, transnational corporations, religion, and...
From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence
Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: ElQuisco and Puerto Oscuro
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
From Seascapes of extinction to seascapes of confidence. Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro by Gloria Gallardo Fernandés is an important contribution to our understanding of the multifaceted challenges underlying sustainable solutions to ecological fisheries,...
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe
Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century....
by Colin C. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1997
Consumer Services have been viewed as parasitic activities, dependent on other sectors of the economy for their viability and vitality. Yet local economic policy is now looking towards consumer services to solve severe economic problems. The rapid expansion of the service sector is now a principal feature of contemporary global economic restructuri
Movement in Cities
Spatial Perspectives On Urban Transport And Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Movement in Cities describes and analyses urban travel in terms of purpose, distance and frequency of journeys and modes and routes used, concentrating mainly on British towns with many references to the United States and Australia.
The authors elucidate the all-important interrelations...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This unique forcast of the shape of the property market of the future includes 22 individual research contributions by leading private practice, institutional and academic research departments and by other expert commentators.
All the major components of the property mix - retail, commercial,...
by John Barry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Written in an accessible and jargon-free way, Environment and Social Theory examines: * the historical relationship between social theory and the environment *pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment social theory and the environment * twentieth century social theory and the environment * economic theory...
Fractured Cities
Capitalism, Community and Empowerment in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for empowerment...
Place, Migration and Development in the Third World
An Alternative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Providing a fresh examination of the nature of Third World development, the author focuses on the characteristics of particular places and regions and their influences on behaviour. This is an important study of the relationship between population movements and regional and national changes.
The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development
Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played...
Mapping the Subject
Geographies of Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals.
The...