Social science / Human Geography

The Dynamics of Black Sea Subregionalism

by Panagiota Manoli

Representing a new development in the study of contemporary regionalism, Panagiota Manoli examines the process of institutionalized sub-regional cooperation and casts new light on the factors influencing the...

Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

by Mark I. Wilson, Aharon Kellerman & Kenneth E. Corey

This unique and empowering text offers a comprehensive, global perspective on the information society from a broad social science perspective. The authors, at the forefront of this dynamic field, provide an...

Latin American Development

by Julie Cupples

Latin America's diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and...

Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography

by Andrew Gorman-Murray, Barbara Pini & Lia Bryant

This edited book offers a detailed examination of the interstices of ruralities and sexualities over a number of different countries, focusing a geographical lens on the relationships between sexualities and...

Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples

by Elspeth Young

European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit populations, this...

Rethinking Development Geographies

by Marcus Power

Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across...

Preventing Famine: Policies and prospects for Africa

by Donald Curtis, Michael Hubbard & Andrew Shepherd

Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation...

Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life

by Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon & Janice Monk

Women of the European Union challenges gender-blind assessments of the economic and social aspects of the European Union policies to examine the real implications of Union for the diversity of women in the Member...

An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism

by Velvet Nelson

This clear and engaging text introduces undergraduate students to the vast and diverse subject of tourism through the lens of geography. Indeed, geography and tourism have always been interconnected, and Velvet...

Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing

by Eric C. Barrett

Taking a detailed, non-mathematical approach to the principles on which remote sensing is based, this book progresses from the physical principles to the application of remote sensing.

Process and Form in Geomorphology

by David Stoddart

Process and Form in Geomorphology marks a turning point in geomorphological research. Stoddart has brought together a team of the leading international experts to offer important new studies into the processes,...

Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration

by Dennis A. Rondinelli

International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty...

Managing Environmental Pollution

by Andrew Farmer

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impact on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls,...

Theories and Practices of Development

by Katie Willis

Throughout the twentieth century, governments sought to achieve 'development' not only in their own countries, but also in other regions of the world; particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean....

Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science

by Timothy Forsyth

Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand...

Population and Development

by W. T. S. Gould

Population and Development addresses important issues at the heart of the problems of developing countries. How these countries address the common difficulties of population growth, including mortality and fertility...

Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami

by David Rieff

This is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century.

David Rieff has provided an engrossing...

The Urban Design Reader

by Michael Larice & Elizabeth Macdonald

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections...

Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl

by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux & Laura Taylor

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings...

Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City

by Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

In Locked In, Locked Out, Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores examines four communities in Ponce, Puerto Rico, showing how gates—in both physical and symbolic ways—distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social...