Human Geography list 99

Landscapes of Settlement

Prehistory to the Present

by Brian Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Education and the City

Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of opportunity...

Crafting a Republic for the World

Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

by Lina del Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included...

The Critical Villager

Beyond Community Participation

by Eric Dudley
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002

When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more...

Climate since AD 1500

by Bradley, Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Using Geochemical Data

Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation

by Hugh R. Rollinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Using Geochemical Data brings together in one volume a wide range of ideas and methods currently used in geochemistry, providing a foundation of knowledge from which the reader can interpret, evaluate and present geochemical data.

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

by Roger G. Barry, Andrew M. Carleton
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications...

Hurricane Andrew

Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disasters

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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover. Employing unique research data the authors analyze the consequences of conflict and competition on disaster...

Constructing Local Environmental Agendas

People, Places and Participation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005

Constructing Local Environmental Agendas draws on original contributions from specialists worldwide to argue that there is scope for local areas to improve their environments, provided local people are involved. International case studies, from UK, Europe, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, demonstrate...

The Forest Frontier

Settlement and Change in Brazilian Roraima

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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

Destructive patterns of Amazonian evolution are now infecting relatively untouched Northern Brazil - driven by the gold rush and demographic and economic forces from the South. The Forest Frontier assesses whether the Northern Amazonian States can avoid the same pressures and problems that affect...

Grassroots Environmental Action

People's Participation in Sustainable Development

by Dharam Ghai, Jessica M. Vivian
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Managing resources sustainably on the local level is essential for achieving the global goal of sustainable development. The importance of people's participation for sustainable development has recently become increasingly acknowledged yet there is little understanding of the multiple dimensions that...

Conservation and Development

by Andrew Newsham, Shonil Bhagwat
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, and how far have we come with this project? This book explores these questions through a detailed consideration of the past, present and future of the relationship...

Environmental Aesthetics

Ideas, Politics and Planning

by J. Douglas Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013