Geography Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. International Handbook of Migration Studies

   Edited by Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

   Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies

   Edited by Ken Albala

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Edited by Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman

   The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Handbook of Human Rights

   Edited by Thomas Cushman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

   Edited by Anthony Elliott

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. Companion to Urban Design

    Edited by Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

    Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism,...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge