Human Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. The University and the City

   By John Goddard, Paul Vallance

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Geographies of Privilege

   Edited by France Winddance Twine, Bradley Gardener

   How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Climate Bonus

   Co-benefits of Climate Policy

   By Alison Smith

   We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability

   Edited by Vicenzo Bentivegna, P.S. Brandon, Patrizia Lombardi

   Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Taylor & Francis
6. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

   Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

   Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Environmental Hazards

   Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster, 6th Edition

   By Keith Smith

   The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate how natural and human systems...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
8. Unfare Solutions

   Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

   Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. India Migration Report 2013

   Social Costs of Migration

   Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan

   This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
10. Planning and Place in the City

    Mapping Place Identity

    By Marichela Sepe

    Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

    Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge