Human Geography

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...

Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theore...

Material Mobilities explores the material dimension of various forms of mobilities and its implications for society, politics and everyday experien...

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and a...

This book discusses key issues concerning water, energy and food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It provides an interdisciplinar...

The world is entering a period of unprecedented environmental and political change. By mid-century, climate change will cause dramatic ecosystem sh...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quali...

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using int...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope...

This title was first published in 2001. The contributors to this book examine how changing political borders and disappearing obstacles in transpor...

Title first published in 2003. This book examines types of advanced technology Chinese districts set aside for developing products for national and...

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the particular issue o...

This title was first published in 2003. The European Union is constantly struggling to find effective ways to plan major transport infrastructure d...

This title was first published in 2002. In the last few decades, relationships within the transport and logistics industry have become more complex...

Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming m...

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...

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in...

Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing c...

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus ...

Uncertainty and context pose fundamental challenges in GIScience and geographic research. Geospatial data are imbued with errors (e.g., measurement...

This title was first published in 2003. The transition from socialism experienced by the countries of Eastern and Central Europe during the last de...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

First published in 1997, this volume sets out to open a dialogue with the trade union movement and its social partners including civil society, pol...

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuzes most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable...

This title was first published in 2002. The concept of embeddedness refers to the social construction of inter-firm relationships and the enmeshin...

Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking...

First published in 1998, this volume represents the outcome of a seminar as part of the continuing efforts of the Convocation of the University of ...

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, w...

This book constitutes a landmark attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, a policy-focused approach to the many timely and important issue...

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 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies...

This title was first published in 2000. Providing an introduction to contemporary regional economic development issues, this book analyzes whether ...

Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to ...

This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity fo...

This book explores the intersectional perspective of sustainable social development in key sectors, such as education and skill development, health...

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational ju...

A critical and comprehensive examination of the origination and application of developments in the textile industry and its products, this book pro...

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

Originally published in 1992 and based on two theoretical approaches: the Global Commodity Chain and the Global Production Network, this book inves...

This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the...

Developments in Geographic Information Technology have raised the expectations of users. A static map is no longer enough; there is now demand for ...

This title was first published in 2002: Human Resource Development (HRD) arguably constitutes the most important aspect of managing resources at wo...

In recent years smartness has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around ...

The past 20 years can be regarded as the adolescence of geographic information science (GIS), as it grew from a burgeoning area of study into a mat...

Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist desti...

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of ...