Geography Books

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41. Population Studies

    Edited by Edith Gray, Zhongwei Zhao

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
42. Producer Services in China

    Economic and Urban Development

    Edited by Anthony Yeh, Fiona Yang

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. It’s economy is now transforming from one based on manufacturing industries towards the producer services, with the importance of these services in the national and regional economy being...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
43. The Big Smoke (Routledge Revivals)

    A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times

    By Peter Brimblecombe

    First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background. He examines domestic and industrial pollution and...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
44. Chernobyl (Routledge Revivals)

    The Long Shadow

    By Chris Park

    First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are. It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
45. Climate: Present, Past and Future

    Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

    By Hubert Lamb

    First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
46. Climate: Present, Past and Future

    Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

    By Hubert Lamb

    First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part III provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating that...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
47. Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)

    A Book of Essays and Other Papers

    By Hubert H. Lamb

    This wide-ranging collection of essays is written by one of the world’s foremost experts on weather and climate. Six of the chapters have not been published before. The rest, taken from a variety of sources, have been thoroughly revised and brought right up to date – taking account, for example, of...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
48. The Changing Climate (Routledge Revivals)

    Selected Papers

    By Hubert H. Lamb

    First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a history of climatic changes from the last ice-age to the present time....

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
49. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

    Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

    Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
50. Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling (Routledge Revivals)

    By Alan Wilson

    First published in 1970, this groundbreaking investigation into Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models. The book has its origins in work being carried out...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge