Transport Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power

   Between Rising Naval Powers

   Edited by Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both...

   Published May 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge

   Edited by Regina Asariotis, Hassiba Benamara

   International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also likely to be affected by wide-ranging and potentially devastating climate change impacts associated with rising sea levels and increased frequency/...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

   Traversing the Margins

   By Chad Haines

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern Pakistan. Focusing on this highway, this book provides a unique analysis of the...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Automobility in Transition?

   A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport

   Edited by Frank W. Geels, René Kemp, Geoff Dudley, Glenn Lyons

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Transport and Urban Development

   By David Banister

   **The 2011 paperback version of this book is an exact reprint of the hardback, originally printed in 1995** The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
6. Rights of Passage

   Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

   By Nicholas Blomley

   Series: Social Justice

   Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Sustainability in European Transport Policy

   By Matthew Humphreys

   The construction of the European Economic Communities in 1950 primarily set out to build an integrated economic zone in which national borders were, to a large extent, overcome. The ability of persons and goods to move freely within the economic zone was seminal in the realisation of economic...

   Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
8. Transport Matters

   Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions

   By Angela Hull

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...

   Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
9. Slow Travel and Tourism

   By Janet Dickinson, Les Lumsdon

   Series: Tourism Environment and Development

   It is widely recognized that travel and tourism can have a high environmental impact and make a major contribution to climate change. It is therefore vital that ways to reduce these impacts are developed and implemented. 'Slow travel' provides such a concept, drawing on ideas from the 'slow food'...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
10. Mobile Lives

    By Anthony Elliott, John Urry

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and...

    Published May 13th 2010 by Routledge