Human Geography

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

This book focuses on the dialectics between spatio-organisational gaps and local contexts that characterise cross-border investments. Interspatial ...

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societie...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...

Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of ...

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns i...

Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationa...

In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing industry and an ...

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in con...

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

This title was first published in 2002.The region of Southeast Asia has been one of the focal points for study in academic circles. Most of the stu...

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith be...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility explores cycling as a sociological phenomenon. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it considers the i...

Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made ...

Food insecurity in the US is a critical issue that is experienced by approximately 15% of the population each year. Hunger is not caused by an inab...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...

This volume shows that in todays globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and r...

Economic globalization is the process of increased integration among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of international trade- ...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

A new approach to rural development is emerging. Instead of being about attracting companies that might create jobs over which communities have no ...

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points ...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outb...

This book delves into neighborhood branding by looking at the City of Orlando and the identities that set each neighborhood apart from others.Orlan...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

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

In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such water, energy and f...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This b...

Although change management and therefore effective adaptation to environmental complexity is considered a uniquely human cultural activity, the ext...

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbooks scope by inc...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

This new Handbook unites cartographic theory and praxis with the principles of cartographic design and their application. It offers a critical appr...

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attribu...

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for...

Published in 1998, the impact of current organizational behaviour upon the environment and concern over the long term effects has become almost a h...

Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, an...

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

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cut...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves a...

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring J...

India is the first country in the world to have an official programme for family planning that commenced in 1952. It has also seen a strong womens ...

Because marine governance in most countries is sectoral, maritime policies are frequently fragmented, reactive, and even contradictory, meaning tha...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to...

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slov...