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Author : P. Pinch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749273378
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Shape of the World: Explorations in Human Geography written by P. Pinch and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Ball
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ISBN 13 : 9780749273347
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Shape of the World written by R. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749273361
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Shape of the World written by R. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198741879
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (418 download)
Download or read book A Shrinking World? written by John Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a five-book series which offers a forward-looking, broad-based course in human geography. The building blocks of a 'geographical imagination' are presented through some of the principal forces that are shaping the world as it approaches the twenty-first century. Each book develops different aspects of the geographical imagination, using a mixture of text and readings, through which the authors teach what it is to think geographically. The issues that are exploredare at the forefront of global and local relations. In recent years there has been much talk of a world that is progressively shrinking as developments in communications and travel increase the pace of life and disrupt our sense of distance. For many, this is the language of globalization: of a world smaller in size, characterized by closer ties and connections, where places once thought of as far apart are no longer so. This volume offers a critical introduction to these ideas, one whichrequires us to rethink our notions of distance and movement, as well as the very nature of social space itself. Starting with the revolutions in transport and communications, the book sets the context within which much of the discussion around the shrinking of the globe takes place. The contributors then go on to examine the implications of a shrinking globe for the worlds of money and finance, and for multinational and transnational firms, and the role played by global cities. Transnational pollution and global tourism are also explored for the manner in which they too often shrink the the world in sometimes unexpected and unpredictable ways. Throughout, attention is drawn to the unevenness and inequality built into global relationships and processes.
Author : Doreen B. Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198741916
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Shape of the World written by Doreen B. Massey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134653697
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Sustainable Development written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated third edition provides an invaluable introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development. The book's primary focus is on the developing world where conditions such as rising poverty and mounting debt combine to present particular challenges of sustainability. A key text, An Introduction to Sustainable Development includes: an analysis of the origins of sustainable development a discussion of the impact of past development processes on people and the environment details of the steps taken at a variety of levels to ensure sustainable development is identified a discussion of the particular challenges and opportunities of sustainable development in urban and rural contexts in the developing world a summary of the ongoing challenges of sustainable development for the global community. In the five years since the first edition there have been important shifts in development thinking. These shifts are reflected in this revised edition which considers the outcomes of Rio Conference, and contains many more insights into best sustainable practice on the ground. In this latest edition, the breadth and depth of the material has increased, and a new larger format enables the use of a more accessible design and use of student-friendly features e.g. boxed examples, discussion questions and further reading and glossary. Overall, this new edition of a classic text is a must-read for all those studying disciplines where sustainable development is key.
Author : Jennifer A. Elliott
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415335591
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Sustainable Development written by Jennifer A. Elliott and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the complex challenges presented by the goal of sustainable development at the local and global level. Areas covered include the challenges and opportunities for the developing world in the search for sustainable development.
Author : Jennifer Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134308957
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Sustainable Development written by Jennifer Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of a successful, established text provides a concise and well-illustrated introduction to the ideas behind, and the practices flowing from the notion of sustainable development.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Geography written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews" and other bibliographical material.
Author : Rohit Chopra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136512837
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Global Media, Culture, and Identity written by Rohit Chopra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes relations between place, culture, and identity. Through the included essays, Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical reflections and empirical case studies that will help readers understand how the media can shape cultural identities and, conversely, how cultural formations can influence the political economy of global media. The interdisciplinary, international scholars gathered here push the discussion of what it means to do global media studies beyond uncritical celebrations of the global media technologies (or globalization) as well as beyond perspectives that are a priori dismissive of the possibilities of global media. Some of the key questions and themes that the international contributors explore within the text include: Is the global audience of global television the same as the global audience of the internet? Can we conceptualize the global culture-media-identity dynamic beyond the discourse of postcolonialism? How does the globalization of media affect feelings of nationalism? How is the growth of a consumer "global middle class" spread, and resisted, through media? Global Media, Identity, and Culture takes a comparative media approach to addressing these, and other, issues across media forms including print, television, film, and new media
Author : Camilla Perrone
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030931072
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Critical Planning and Design written by Camilla Perrone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning. In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions. Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, Yona Friedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick). The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transition while relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.
Author : Thomas L. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780135071793
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Human Geography written by Thomas L. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198741855
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Geographical Worlds written by John Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a five book series offering a comprehensive, broad-based course in human geography. Geographical Worlds sets out what it means to think geographically in a world that is changing in ways that bring to the fore questions of space, place and nature. Starting with thevariety of ways in which we represent the world - through maps, travel brochures or novels for example - the book draws attention to the disputed nature of geographical knowledge. It demonstrates how our understanding of the world reflects the unequal balance of power in society. The contributors goon to show how geographical thinking enables us to grasp the 'local' and the 'global', and the connections between the two. Cntral here is the fact that in this much-vaunted age of globalization, inequality is built into the very way that such connections are drawn. As a short introduction to thebuilding blocks of geographical thinking, this book will be essential reading for students in human geography. This is the introductory volume of a five-book series which offers a comprehensive, broad-based course in human geography. The building blocks of a 'geographical imagination' are presentedthrough some of the principal forces that are shaping the world as it approaches the twenty-first century. Each book develops different aspects of the geographical imagination, using a mixture of text and readings. The issues that are explored are at the forefront of global and economic change.In tracing the impact of shifts in cultural and political geography, they are used to teach what it is to think geographically.
Author : Doreen B. Massey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198741916
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)
Download or read book A Place in the World? written by Doreen B. Massey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume of a five-book series which offers a forward-looking, broad-based course in human geography. The building blocks of a `geographical imagination' are presented through some of the principal forces that are shaping the world as it approaches the twenty-first century.Each book develops different aspects of the geographical imagination, using a mixture of text and readings, through which the authors teach what it is to think geographically. the issues that are explored are at the forefront of global and local relations. This volume examines the challenges posed by globalization to the meanings we currently give to place and to culture, and questions the nature of the rlationship between them.Issues of identity - cultural, personal, and of place - and the contest over the meanings of places and cultures are set in the context of the changing geography of social power. Beginning with international migration, the book establishes a centuries-old context of movement, settlement, andhybridity within which current debates must be set. It raises issues of the rights of movement of both capital and of people, of the ways in which place and culture are imagined and given meaning, and of the power struggles over the definitions of place and culture. It examines the importance andthe nature of the identities we confer on, and draw from, place, and the importance of space and place in the constitution of `insiders' and `outsiders'. The book as a whole is an argument for rethinking these issues and recognising their importance to our geographical imagination.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080449107
Total Pages : 10985 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 10985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world. This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades. The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/ref_works/coming/ Available online on ScienceDirect and in limited edition print format Broad, interdisciplinary coverage across human geography: Philosophy, Methods, People, Social/Cultural, Political, Economic, Development, Health, Cartography, Urban, Historical, Regional Comprehensive and unique - the first of its kind in human geography
Author : Barney Warf
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761988580
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by Barney Warf and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Tore Sager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317033787
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Mobilities written by Tore Sager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities departs from the recent interest in social surveillance, raised by the use of technology for the surveillance and control of mobility as well as for transport. It widens this theme to encompass a broad scale of issues, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and religion; questions that are dealt with by a diverse, yet structured range of chapters, arranged around the themes of ethics and religion, and freedom and control. Through their variety and diversity of perspectives, the chapters of this book offer a substantial interdisciplinary contribution to the socially and environmentally relevant discussion about what a technically and economically accelerating mobility does to life and how it might be transformed to sustain a more life-enhancing future. Ethics of Mobilities will excite not only international interest, but will also appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, in fields as diverse as theology and engineering.
