Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and…

Highlighting the inter-relationships between tourism, leisure and recreation, this revised edition introduces growing theoretical debates (from geography and the wider social science arena) to assess…

Sustainable development continues to be the key idea around which environment and development are structured. This extensively revised third edition continues to provide a concise,…

This informative text offers a geographical perspective on globalization. It provides a lively exploration of its spatial impacts and the distinctive contribution of human geography…

In order to attract investment and tourism, cities are increasingly competing to re-brand themselves as cosmopolitan, and in recent years, cosmopolitanism has become the focus…

The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has…

The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development…

In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption…