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Routledge publishes quality textbooks in a variety of disciplines and course subjects. We are committed to providing course materials to instructors and students that are both engaging and innovative. You can learn more about our textbooks by viewing our featured selections below in Geography. You can also browse textbooks in all subjects or check out our companion websites.
The Chinese City
By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz
The Chinese City offers a critical understanding of China’s urbanization,exploring how the complexity of the Chinese city both conforms to and defies conventional urban theories and experience of cities elsewhere around the world. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of up-to-date statistical information, case studies, and suggested further reading to demonstrate the diversity of urban life in China.
The keenly anticipated new edition of the Urban Sociology Reader is now available. With seminal selections from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this new edition includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey.
Climate Change and Social Ecology takes a new approach to the climate crisis, portraying global warming as a challenge of rapid social evolution. This book argues that, in order to address this impending catastrophe and bring about more sustainable development, we must focus on improving social ecology – our values, mind-sets, and social organization. Steps to do this include institutional reforms to improve democracy, educational strategies to encourage public understanding of complex issues, and measures to prevent corporations and the wealthy from shaping societies in other directions instead.
Africa: Diversity and Development is a refreshing interdisciplinary text that enhances understanding of Africa’s current position and clarifies possible future scenarios. The book contains illustrations throughout as well as detailed case studies and current data.
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Introduction to Geopolitics provides a framework for understanding contemporary conflicts. The book shows how geography creates both opportunities for and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist organizations.
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Introduction to Geopolitics provides a framework for understanding contemporary conflicts. The book shows how geography creates both opportunities for and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist organizations.
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Environmental Governance shows how network and market governance have shaped current approaches to environmental issues, while also introducing emerging approaches such as transition management and adaptive governance.
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The extensively revised and updated second edition gives an introduction to theories of territoriality and the outcomes of territorial control and resistance.
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In Environmental Governance, James Evans explores how the environment is controlled, manipulated, regulated, and contested by a range of actors and institutions. Each chapter has case studies, key debates, and questions for discussion.
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Understanding Cultural Geography provides a broad-based overview of cultural geography. It is an excellent introductory tool either undergraduate or postgraduate students.
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