Category: Human Geography

By Paul J Cloke, Ron Johnston

Areas of Geographical concept examines key rules – like house and position - which tell the geographic mind's eye. The textual content explains the importance of those binaries within the structure of geographic idea and exhibits what number of those binaries were interrogated and reimagined in additional contemporary geographical pondering. A attention of those binaries will outline the thoughts and situate scholars within the most present geographical arguments and debates. The textual content should be required analyzing for all modules at the philosophy of geography and on geographical idea.

By Robert Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Maria Salazar

The authors of this accomplished publication supply an in depth intent and unique idea for the learn of management and institutional components, together with entrepreneurship, within the progress and improvement of towns and areas. They exhibit why management, associations and entrepreneurship can - and certainly do - play an important bettering function as key parts within the technique of nearby endogenous development. The so-called `new development idea' emphasizes endogenous procedures. whereas a number of the literature refers to management and institutional elements, there was little research of the specific roles those components play within the progress and improvement of towns and areas. This ebook treatments that hole, starting with a short evaluate of the evolution of the `new progress concept' in local monetary improvement, during which the emphasis is on endogenous components. The ebook then discusses management and institutional components in that context, making a new course for knowing local fiscal improvement strategies. a number of case reviews from varied elements of the area illustrate the theoretical strategies. scholars and students in neighborhood improvement, making plans and public coverage will locate this quantity useful.

By Manuel Castells

This primary ebook in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a considerable new preface, highlights the commercial and social dynamics of the knowledge age and exhibits how the community society has now absolutely risen on an international scale.

• Groundbreaking quantity at the influence of the age of knowledge on all facets of society
• Includes assurance of the effect of the web and the net-economy
• Describes the accelerating speed of innovation and social transformation
• Based on learn within the united states, Asia, Latin the United States, and Europe

By Phil Jones; James Evans

The city panorama of the united kingdom is present process its such a lot dramatic transformation in view that post-war reconstruction. This quantity provides a scientific consultant to that transformation that pulls jointly a mass of knowledge, from coverage stories to educational reports. coverage framework -- Governance -- aggressive urban -- Sustainability -- layout and cultural regeneration -- Regeneration past town centre -- maintaining so far

By Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, Will Steffen

Human background, as written generally, leaves out the real ecological and weather context of ancient occasions. however the potential to combine the historical past of humans with the common historical past of the Earth now exists, and we're discovering that human-environmental platforms are in detail associated in methods we're merely starting to savor. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a number scholarly disciplines improve an built-in human and environmental background over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the longer term. The members concentrate on the human-environment interactions that experience formed ancient forces considering the fact that precedent days and talk about such key methodological concerns as information caliber. themes highlighted contain the political ecology of the Mayans; the influence of weather at the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary climate" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, monetary, and political forces in environmental swap; eventualities for the long run; and the accuracy of such earlier forecasts because the Limits to Growth.

By Satish Deshpande

Globalization, Hindutva and the Mandal agitation have reworked our social panorama during the last 20 years and faced us with new difficulties and chances. This publication seeks to seriously reassess what well known logic tells us approximately those and modern matters. Why are we so desirous to declare modernity in a few contexts and so nervous to disown it in others? How does the economic climate come to rival faith and background as a resource of nationwide identification? the place does the ethical legitimacy of the center category come from? What makes caste one of these debatable criterion for public coverage? Has globalization made areas beside the point? those are a few of the questions that Deshpande explores here.

Grounded in sociology yet drawing upon contemporary advancements within the different social sciences in addition to nationwide info on financial inequality, Deshpande analyses 5 choose topics and the routes to realizing them-the unusual mix of anxiousness and ambivalence that modernity provokes in India; the shaping of the kingdom by means of the ideologies of Hindutva and improvement; the pivotal position of the center classification in self sustaining India; the relative invisibility of caste inequality regardless of the general public prominence of caste; and the asymmetric influence of globalization at the geography of cultural regions.

While the ebook is especially written for the overall reader drawn to going past good judgment, Deshpande’s clean procedure additionally makes it a needs to learn for academics and scholars of sociology and different social technology.

By Tina Harris

Operating on the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and fabric tradition, Tina Harris explores the social and monetary modifications occurring alongside one alternate course that winds its method throughout China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

How may perhaps we make connections among likely mundane everyday life and extra summary degrees of world switch? Geographical Diversions specializes in generations of investors who alternate items similar to sheep wool, pang gdan aprons, and extra lately, family home equipment. Exploring how investors "make places," Harris examines the construction of geographies of exchange that paintings opposed to kingdom principles of what alternate routes may still seem like. She argues that the tensions among the plain fixity of nationwide limitations and the mobility of neighborhood participants round such regulations are accurately how routes and histories of alternate are produced.

The financial upward push of China and India has acquired realization from the overseas media, however the results of significant new infrastructure on the intersecting borderlands of those nationstates―in areas like Tibet, northern India, and Nepal―have hardly been lined. Geographical Diversions demanding situations globalization theories in keeping with bounded conceptions of geographical regions and provides a smaller-scale point of view that differs from many theories of macroscale monetary swap.

By Csapó Tamás, Lenner Tibor

This publication offers the result of empirical examine performed by means of the authors, who in my view surveyed the folks they met on every road, sq. and public area in Budapest. It has 4 vast chapters that debate city switch and constitution in Budapest and have many wealthy colour illustrations. the 1st bankruptcy seems to be on the geographical situations impacting the city’s city improvement in a ancient context, in addition to the evolution of its features and demographic procedures and the advance of the floor plan and payment constitution. the second one bankruptcy issues itself with the best way the capital urban of Hungary is equipped, demonstrating the horizontal homogeneity and vertical heterogeneity of improvement including improvement varieties and destinations in Budapest. The 3rd bankruptcy was once written in regards to the switch in Budapest’s city constitution, specially in regard to the years after 1990. It lists the main components influencing city constitution transformation, via an in depth research of Budapest’s practical zones. finally, the fourth bankruptcy presents a close advent to every capital urban district, together with their construction, improvement and sensible structures.

By Robert M Wilson

Each one fall and spring, thousands of birds trip the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the 4 significant North American chicken migration routes. The landscapes they go fluctuate from wetlands to farmland to concrete, inhabited not just by way of flora and fauna but additionally by means of farmers, suburban households, and significant towns. within the 20th century, farmers used the wetlands to irrigate their plants, reworking the panorama and placing migratory birds in danger. The U.S. Fish and flora and fauna carrier spoke back by means of developing a chain of refuges that stretched from northern Washington to southern California.

What emerged from those efforts used to be a hybrid setting, the place the differences among irrigated farms and flora and fauna refuges blurred. administration of the refuges used to be fraught with conflicting priorities and practices. Farmers and shelter managers burdened birds with shotguns and flares to maintain them off deepest lands, and executive pilots took to the air, losing hand grenades between flocks of ducks and herding the startled birds into close by refuges. Such activities masked the growing to be connections among refuges and the land round them.

Seeking Refuge examines the improvement and administration of refuges within the wintering variety of migratory birds alongside the Pacific Flyway. even supposing this can be a historical past of efforts to preserve migratory birds, the tale Robert Wilson tells has enormous salience this day. some of the key areas migratory birds use ― the Klamath Basin, California’s crucial Valley, the Salton Sea ― are websites of contemporary contentious debates over water use. Migratory birds attach and rely on those landscapes, and farmers face strain as water is reallocated from irrigation to different reasons. In a time whilst international warming offers to compound the stresses on water and migratory species, Seeking Refuge demonstrates the necessity to foster landscapes the place either flora and fauna and other people can thrive

By Brian Pavlac