Geography Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Circulation in Population Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   Substance and concepts from the Melanesian case

   Edited by Murray Chapman, R. Mansell Prothero

   First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

   Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Barriers to Sustainable Transport

   Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability

   Edited by Piet Rietveld, Roger R. Stough

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Local Industrial Clusters

   Existence, Emergence and Evolution

   By Thomas Brenner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Emerging Industrial Structure of the Wider Europe

   Edited by F. McGowan, S. Radosevic, Nick Von Tunzelman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   The latest wave of European Union expansion has brought many central and Eastern European countries into the fold. Unlike previous enlargements however, the latest new members are also undergoing radical economic reform as they reintegrate into international economy.This book reviews the changing...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Planning for Retail Development

   A Critical View of the British Experience

   By Clifford Guy

   Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context. Planning for...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Knowledge

   Edited by Patrick Baert, Fernando Domínguez Rubio

   Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
10. Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities

    Edited by Melissa Butcher, Selvaraj Velayutham

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge