Geography Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability

   Edited by Vicenzo Bentivegna, P.S. Brandon, Patrizia Lombardi

   Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Taylor & Francis
2. Unfare Solutions

   Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

   Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

   Edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Retirement Migration

   Paradoxes of Ageing

   By Caroline Oliver

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

    By Oliver D. Cooke

    Series: New Political Economy

    This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge