Environmental Geography Books

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1. The Economics of Urban Property Markets: An Institutional Economics Analysis

   By Paschalis Arvanitidis

   Mainstream urban and real estate economics tend to ignore the supply side of the economy and to undervalue the significant role that the property market plays in the economic development of cities. The Economics of Urban Property Markets is a cohesive analysis and synthesis of a wide range...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-42682-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia: Agricultural Biomass Waste

   By Salman Zafar

   This book highlights the biomass energy potential of Agricultural Biomass Waste in Southeast Asia, keeping in view the tremendous amounts of biomass in the region and the emergence of sustainable technologies and solutions to transform this resource into clean energy and fuel. The author provides...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61125-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Children, Youth and the City

   By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk

   More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-37692-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Geographies of Globalization, 2nd Edition

   By Warwick Murray

   This informative text offers a geographical perpsective on globalization. It provides a lively exploration of its spatial impacts and the distinctive contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field....

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-56762-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Theories and Practices of Development, 2nd Edition

   By Katie Willis

   Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led academics and policy-makers to consider how ‘development’ in all parts of the world should be achieved. However, ‘development’ has always been a contested idea. While often presented as a positive process to improve...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-59071-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment

   By Anthony D. King

   The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61166-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Gentrification of the City

   Edited by Neil Smith, Peter Williams

   This book was first published in 1986....

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61167-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe: Approaches to Development

   Edited by Donald Macleod, Steven Gillespie

   Rural Europe is a highly developed tourism region, representing advanced tourism experience and supposed modern approaches to this industry. That said, it remains highly sensitive and fragile in terms of environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts. This volume focuses on rural Europe as a...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-54799-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 to 2016, 2nd Edition

   Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

   The first edition of Olympic Cities provided the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. This substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Three years on, its coverage takes account of important new...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-48658-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place

    Edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby

    Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to...

    August 2010 | 978-0-415-59976-4 | Paperback (Routledge)