Human Geography

Squatting is currently a global phenomenon. A concomitant of economic development and social conflict, squatting attracts public attention because ...

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with t...

Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to ...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both lab...

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with...

In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challe...

Originally published in French as Le territoire européen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has s...

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT...

Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countri...

Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation lin...

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in...

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their percept...

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact wit...

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the ...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

This title was first published in 2001. A delightfully oriented selection of international state-of-the-art research in applied regional science, t...

First published in 1997, this volume is intended to make a contribution to both the literature and the contentious debate on the relationship betwe...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, Serendipity ...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

Drawing together philosophical, empirical and academic thinking, this book focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self ...

This new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, which requires...

Published in 1999, this is a collection of recent research results by acknowledged researchers in the field of enterprise transformation and indust...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastru...

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, senti...

Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfigurati...

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place...

Twenty-five years into transformation, Central and Eastern European regions have undergone substantial socio-economic restructuring, integrating in...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination of food security from its histo...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. T...

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges ...

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and cul...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weathe...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...