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Outdoor Recreation Management

by John Jenkins & John Pigram

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work. This revealing book analyzes leisure and outdoor recreation in terms of both their management and their wider importance to society. Specifically,...


Eco-Hydrology

by Andrew J. Baird & Robert L. Wilby

^iEco-Hydrology is the first book to offer an overview of the complex relationships between plants and water across a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic environments. Leading ecologists and hydrologists present...


Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

by Mike Crang, Phil Crang & Jon May

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental...


Political Geography

by Mark Blacksell

In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his seminal paper The Geographical Pivot of History demonstrating the central position of political geography in the study of geography as a whole; a century later and...


Spaces of Masculinities

by Kathrin Horschelmann & Bettina van Hoven

Changing circumstances in Western and global societies have introduced new constraints and opportunities for men and the formation of male identities. Meanwhile, the emerging diversity of 'atypical' identities...


Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods

by Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell & Peter Nijkamp

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development....


Urban Geography: A Global Perspective

by Michael Pacione

For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: even those living...


Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang & Nancy Denton

As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant...


Affordable Housing Reader MUELLER & TIGHE

by Elizabeth Mueller & Rosie Tighe

The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving...


Planning The City

by Marichela Sepe

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly...


Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China

by D.B. Madsen, F. Chen & X. Gao

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period....


Constructive Anarchy: Building Infrastructures of Resistance

by Jeff Shantz

Constructive Anarchy draws on over a decade of direct study within a variety of anarchist projects to provide the most wide-ranging and detailed analysis of current anarchist endeavours to date. The book offers...


Conflict Hot Spots: Emergence, Causes and Consequences

by Alex Braithwaite

This study introduces the concept of a conflict hot spot to the broader empirical literature on conflict processes. It identifies common causes and consequences of conflict hot spots across many regions globally,...


The Rise of the Networking Region: The Challenges of Regional Collaboration in a Globalized World

by Harald Baldersheim & Are Vegard Haug

Covering the four Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden plus the Faroe Islands, this volume charts the changes in networking activities and related development initiatives that have taken...


Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces

by Barbara Pini & Belinda Leach

Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the...


Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions

by Paolo Savona & John J. Kirton

This collection gathers experts from Africa, North America, Asia and Europe to examine international policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis. In doing so they reveal the implications for international...


Building Regions: The Regionalization of the World Order

by Luk Van Langenhove

In this title Luk Van Langenhove advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions. He brings together, under one conceptual framework, different processes and concepts...


Cities and Global Governance: New Sites for International Relations

by Mark Amen & Noah J. Toly

This volume advances understanding of the significance of 'the city' in global governance, demanding innovation in international relations theory. A rich assortment of case studies adds breadth to theorizing...


Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert

by Patricia Gober

Metropolitan Phoenix explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social diversity.


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...