Geography category: 5793 books
Land, Water and Development
Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with improving our management of fresh water...
by Gabriel Lipshitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Country on the Move presents original research and a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial aspects of migration. It considers the spatial results of two diametrically opposed policies: planning from above to settle the North African and Asian newcomers in the 1950s, and planning...
by Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, 1867
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
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The only true and right way of learning geography (which in its widest sense comprehends almost everything connected with the earth) is to become acquainted with the geography—or, strictly speaking, the topography—and history of the district in which we live. Modern England...
The Behavioural Environment
Essays in Reflection, Application and Re-evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Placing human action and perception at the centre of the subject, this book considers the effects of mankind on the environment, drawing particularly from William Kirk's work on the behavioural environment model. Reviewing Kirk's original model in light of recent ideological debate and extensive new...
Images of the Street
Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural geography, sociolgy, cultural studies and planning to explore the making and meaning of urban space.
Among...
by Chris Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The rural landscape of the Third World is generally seen as one worked by the impoverished. Chris Dixon shows that this is an increasingly inaccurate picture. Wealth does exist, with the landed often maintaining lifestyles comparable to their richest urban neighbours. And while land remains the basis...
Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty
Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision...
Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods
Connecting People, Participation and Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to mainstream...
Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy
Evidence from Contemporary Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient...
by Sheena Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
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The New Geography of Innovation
Clusters, Competitiveness and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Innovation is the main engine of competitiveness. However, in a world in which everything goes faster, the inherent nature of the innovation process has changed. This book assesses both the theoretically and empirically intertwined relationship between innovation, clusters and multinational enterprises in today's economy.
GIS and the Social Sciences
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
GIS and the Social Sciences offers a uniquely social science approach on the theory and application of GIS with a range of modern examples. It explores how human geography can engage with a variety of important policy issues through linking together GIS and spatial analysis, and demonstrates the importance...
Geography × 10
Ten Geographic Projects Presented by a Professional Geographer
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
This book gives examples of the use of geographical analysis in several real life projects. Each chapter describes a specific problem, the environment existing during its definition and the methodologies used to solve it. There is plenty of information to look for more techniques and a bibliography...
South Asia in a Globalising World
A Reconstructed Regional Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region. South Asia provides one of the world's most challenging development contexts and The authors take a different approach to most traditional development texts,...