Human Geography

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global nort...

In aiming to understand and model peoples out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. ...

This title was first published in 2000: The book analyses the development of arctic environmental cooperation since the late 1980s until the establ...

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a co...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite the fact that environmental directives are one of the strongest areas of policy decreed by the EU, ...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite considerable expansion, the scholarly literature on political corruption has remained fragmentary, ...

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the special category of countries popularly referred to as transition economies through an analysis...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

This was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming c...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of change...

Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological AssociationThis book offers a...

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential syn...

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern...

This title was first published in 2001. The dynamics of New Firm Formation (NFF) are central to the phenomenon of economic growth and development. ...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

Originally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world, increasingly ...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

This title was first published in 2003. Schumpeter first put forward the premise that the incessant turbulence of an economy in motion, carrying ou...

This Expo book brings together leading academic and policymaker experts to reflect on the significant challenges faced by lagging regions in partic...

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

The ambit of Buddhist studies reflects not only the spiritual and philosophical domain of Buddhism but also a symbiotic relationship between the mo...

Economic geographers have always argued that space is key to understanding the economy, that the processes of economic growth and development do no...

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agr...

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic. It presents state-of-the-art thi...

In any settler and/or postcolonial society, heritage is a complex and contested topic that involves indigenous, imperial and other migrant componen...

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

Building on the foundation of the bestselling first edition, Aerial Mapping: Methods and Applications, Second Edition provides you with a practical...

Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that s...

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with...

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-...

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the worlds largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Systemat...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Ci...

Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and gree...

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct ap...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...