Geography News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Handbook of Local and Regional Development wins Regional Studies Association Best Book 2012 award
On the 5th October, Professor Andy Pike of Newcastle University received the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Best Book Award for the ‘Handbook of Local and Regional Development’ (Routledge 2011). Described by Fabrizio Barca, Italian Minister without portfolio for Territorial Cohesion, as "A must read for all those wanting seriously to understand spatial patterns in development and to engage in the difficult art of modern local and regional development policy". Click here for the full article.
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The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Edited by Peter Howard, Ian H. Thompson, Emma Waterton
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The Chinese City
The Chinese City
By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz
The Chinese City offers a critical understanding of China’s urbanization,exploring how the complexity of the Chinese city both conforms to and defies conventional urban theories and experience of cities elsewhere around the world. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of up-to-date statistical information, case studies, and suggested further reading to demonstrate the diversity of urban life in China. -
Now available: new edition of the Urban Sociology Reader
The keenly anticipated new edition of the Urban Sociology Reader is now available. With seminal selections from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this new edition includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey.
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Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice and Politics
By David Goodman, Melanie E. DuPuis, Michael K. Goodman
Review of Alternative Food Networks by Tim Lang -
Featured Book: Climate Change and Social Ecology
Climate Change and Social Ecology takes a new approach to the climate crisis, portraying global warming as a challenge of rapid social evolution. This book argues that, in order to address this impending catastrophe and bring about more sustainable development, we must focus on improving social ecology – our values, mind-sets, and social organization. Steps to do this include institutional reforms to improve democracy, educational strategies to encourage public understanding of complex issues, and measures to prevent corporations and the wealthy from shaping societies in other directions instead.
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Africa, Book of the Month, April 2012
Africa: Diversity and Development is a refreshing interdisciplinary text that enhances understanding of Africa’s current position and clarifies possible future scenarios. The book contains illustrations throughout as well as detailed case studies and current data.
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Featured Book: Introduction to Geopolitics, 2e
Introduction to Geopolitics provides a framework for understanding contemporary conflicts. The book shows how geography creates both opportunities for and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist organizations.
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Featured Book: Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring require a re-thinking of the priorities, processes and underlying values that shape contemporary development aspirations and policy.
Recommend this book to a librarian.
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Introduction to Geopolitics, 2e, Book of the Month, March 2012
Introduction to Geopolitics provides a framework for understanding contemporary conflicts. The book shows how geography creates both opportunities for and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist organizations.
Request your complimentary exam copy today!
