Geography

An Introduction to Sustainable Development

4th Edition

By Jennifer Elliott

Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of...

Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge

Introduction to Geopolitics

2nd Edition

By Colin Flint

This clear and concise introductory textbook guides students through their first engagement with geopolitics. It offers a clear framework for understanding contemporary conflicts by showing how geography provides opportunities and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

Introduction to Geopolitics

2nd Edition

By Colin Flint

This clear and concise introductory textbook guides students through their first engagement with geopolitics. It offers a clear framework for understanding contemporary conflicts by showing how geography provides opportunities and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

Territories

The Claiming of Space

By David Storey

Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth’s surface into separate states to the placement of ‘keep out’ signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a force for oppression or...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

Urban Geography

By Tim Hall, Heather Barrett

Series: Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and '...

Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge

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

Children, Youth and the City

By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk

Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social...

Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge

Cities and Sexualities

By Phil Hubbard

Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business...

Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge

Environment and Food

By Colin Sage

Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth’s resources. Having a better idea of the...

Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge

An Introduction to the Geography of Health

By Peter Anthamatten, Helen Hazen

Health issues such as the emergence of infectious diseases, the potential influence of global warming on human health, and the escalating strain of increasing longevity and chronic conditions on healthcare systems are of growing importance in an increasingly peopled and interconnected world. A...

Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge