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Service Worlds: People, Organisations, Technologies

by John Bryson, Peter Daniels & Barney Warf

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology...


Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

by David Crouch

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires....


Eco-Facts and Eco-Fiction: Understanding the Environmental Debate

by William H. Baarschers

Ozone-friendly, recyclable, zero-waste, elimination of toxic chemicals - such environmental ideals are believed to offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Where do these ideals come from? Is the environmental...


Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets

by Gerald Daly

The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating.

Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in...


World in Crisis: Populations in Danger at the End of the 20th Century

by Médicins Sans Frontières/Doctors Witho

The tragedies of war, famine, disease and poverty continue to dominate our headlines. Faced with such tragedy, the politics, ethics, even the economics of humanitarian aid are becoming more complex. The role...


Geoecology: An Evolutionary Approach

by Richard Huggett

Animals, plants and soils interact with one another, with the terrestrial spheres, and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this rich interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems.

Geoecology investigates...


Destinations: Cultural Landscapes of Tourism

by Greg Ringer

This book presents new directions both for tourism and cultural landscape studies in geography, crossing the traditional boundaries between the research of geographers and scholars of the tourism industry.

Drawing...


Regional Climates of the British Isles

by Julian Mayes & Dennis Wheeler

Global climate and the effects of global warming are commanding unprecendented interest as climates grow more dynamic and changeable. How does global warming change patterns of climate? Why is the weather and...


Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability

by Raymond Burby, Jennifer Dixon & Neil Ericksen

Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans...


Deregulation in the European Union: Environmental Perspectives

by Ute Collier

Examines the environmental implication of economic deregulation through case studies of the energy, transport and water sectors. The book deals with options for deregulation, looking at self-regulation, negotiated...


Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy

by Jonathan Golub

Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy.

A wide range of international...


Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities

by Sako Musterd & Wim Ostendorf

Urban Segregation and the Welfare State examines ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarisation, and social exclusion in major cities in the Western world. Contributors from across North...


A Geography of the Third World

by C.G Clarke, Dr J P Dickenson & J.P Dickenson

The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest....


Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside: Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment

by Gavin Parker

Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples...


Regional Development in China: States, Globalization and Inequality

by Yehua Dennis Wei

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region. Wei's findings have important implications for theories...


Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State

by Chih-Yu Shih

This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.

Disclosing endless mini negotiations...


Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics

by John Agnew

Geopolitics identifies and scrutinizes the central features of geopolitics from the sixteenth century to the present. The book focuses on five key concepts of the modern geopolitical imagination:

* Visualising...


Gender and Landscape: Renegotiating the Moral Landscape

by Josephine Carubia, Lorraine Dowler & Bonj Szczygiel

Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into a long-ignored area of study: the landscape. Although there has been an exhaustive investigation into issues of gender as they intersect with space and place,...


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...


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...