Geography category: 5793 books
by Danny Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?
The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health, and work - that illustrate...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume...
by Bernadette Hanlon, Thomas J. Vicino
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism. Global Migration: The Basics examines:
history and geography of global migration
the role of migrants in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Digital Economy
Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s.
The Digital Economy offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from...
Reading Retail
A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Reading Retail captures contemporary debates on the geography of retailing and consumption spaces. It is constructed around a series of 'readings' from key works, and is designed to encourage readers to develop a sense of engagement with the rapidly evolving debates in this field. More than 60 edited...
Non-Representational Theory & Health
The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life.
This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the...
by Stephen Wynn Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This text provides a concise introduction to new and established geographies of tourism. Using worldwide examples it examines the differing economic, environmental and sociological impacts that tourism has on destinations. It looks to the future by considering how planning for tourism can assist in...
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity
Rethinking the Cultural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to...
Creativity in Peripheral Places
Redefining the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Creativity is said to be the fuel of the contemporary economy. Dynamic industries such as film, music, television and design have changed the fortunes of entire cities, from Nashville to Los Angeles, Barcelona to Brisbane and beyond. Yet creativity remains mercurial – it is at the heart of industrial...
by Simon Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Exam Board: WJEC, Eduqas
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Geography
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: Summer 2017
Reinforce students' geographical understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers help students improve their exam technique and...
by Mike Crang
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by John Wylie, John Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are brought...
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally...