Geography

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969...

The punitive turn has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrai...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that ...

Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests ...

At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or soc...

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introducti...

The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Co...

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. He...

Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment w...

In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN ...

This book aims to analyze Lesotho's prospects for economic advancement, and examines the influence of the policies and economic development of Sout...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a...

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

This book provides the first in depth interpretation of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation across Western European coun...

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions su...

The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization tha...

The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from...

This book explores theoretical concepts of strategic promotion and place branding in cities. It outlines the issues associated with strategic manag...

This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the culture wars th...

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides ...