Geography Books

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11. Planning Asian Cities

    Risks and Resilience

    Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
12. Transferable Groundwater Rights

    Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics

    By Andreas N. Charalambous

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
13. The Futures of the City Region

    Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
14. Healthy City Planning

    From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

    By Jason Corburn

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
15. Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition

    Edited by Robert G. Watts

    Discussing today’s hottest topics relating to climate change, including adapting to climate change and geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of change, this book takes on the tough questions of what to do and offers real solutions to the practical problems caused by radical changes in the earth’s...

    Published March 21st 2013 by CRC Press
16. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

    Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
17. Market Towns

    Roles, challenges and prospects

    By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, Tim Shaw

    Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns. Through a detailed analysis of the characteristics of over 200 towns and...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
18. Barriers to Sustainable Transport

    Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability

    Edited by Piet Rietveld, Roger R. Stough

    Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

    The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
19. Local Industrial Clusters

    Existence, Emergence and Evolution

    By Thomas Brenner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers....

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
20. The Emerging Industrial Structure of the Wider Europe

    Edited by F. McGowan, S. Radosevic, Nick Von Tunzelman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The latest wave of European Union expansion has brought many central and Eastern European countries into the fold. Unlike previous enlargements however, the latest new members are also undergoing radical economic reform as they reintegrate into international economy.This book reviews the changing...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge