Human Geography

This book is a comprehensive examination of the society, polity and economy of South Asian countries and their future trajectories. The chapters in...

In order to stimulate the progress in smart textiles, emerging developments need to be identified and selectively strengthened. Hence, this issue r...

First published in 1968: This, the record of the author's first journey into the interior of Africa, established his credentials as an explorer of ...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others i...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

Previously published in French by Ãditions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable develop...

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of...

This title was first published in 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

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 2003. This prominent and commanding volume collates the best research available on China's agricultural trade. Cr...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africas most populous and arguably most externally f...

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the reco...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grow...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

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

This title was first published in 2003. With the increasing use of GIS in industrialised and developing countries, the availability of spatial data...

In terms of statistics, GIS offers many connections. With GIS, data are gathered, displayed, summarized, examined, and interpreted to discover patt...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

Radar Hydrology: Principles, Models, and Applications provides graduate students, operational forecasters, and researchers with a theoretical frame...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, an...

Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the market economies of the region usually de...

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, wh...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

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

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...