| |
Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant as feminist recognition of the differences between women, their diverse experiences in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-02
PDF, ePub
|
Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system. This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-03-13
ePub
|
We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-02-13
ePub
|
Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left. Explores issues central to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-23
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-23
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
PDF, ePub
|
This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-07
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Anhand von qualitativen Interviews mit Akteuren des grenzüberschreitenden Verflechtungsraums Großregion untersucht Antje Schönwald Identitäten und Stereotype sowie deren Auswirkungen auf das Handeln jenseits traditioneller Raumvorstellungen. Die Autorin analysiert...
Editeur :
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-29
Collection :
RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
ePub
|
This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge of the field, from ancient geography to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-05
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
PDF, ePub
|
This critical engagement with Doreen Massey’s ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-05
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci’s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-10-17
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and the punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-10-04
PDF
|
The intellectual renaissance of human geography has included a widespread engagement between its economic and cultural subdisciplines. This volume adopts a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the encounters between economic and cultural geographers. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-04-02
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
ePub
|
This guide for tomorrow’s urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions. Key questions addressed are: Is simulation useful to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-03-20
Collection :
Springer Geography
ePub
|
Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations. This text adequately applies the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2012-01-25
PDF, ePub
|
The thesis is an original and novel contribution to land use/land cover change analysis using methods of geosimulation and agent-based modeling.The author implements several traditional methodologies of land use change by means of remote sensing and GIS techniques. An...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-01
Collection :
Springer Theses
ePub
|
THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ‘Even better than before, the Dictionary is an essential tool for all human geographers and over the years has provided an invaluable guide to the changing boundaries and content of the discipline. No-one can afford to be without this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
PDF, ePub
|
Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-26
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-26
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. Advances a new framework for considering the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-22
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|