Human geography Books

Book SynopsisHuman Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultural, and urban dimensions.The book addresses early cultures, languages, religions, the rise of capitalism, and globalisation as components of human geographical systems. Students read about developed and underdeveloped societies, population, political geography, urban geography, agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Each chapter includes a preview of the main points, a post-reading summary, a glossary of key terms, and study questions to be used for in-class discussions or as writing assignments.The fourth edition features a new chapter on economic geography concerned with industrial agriculture, manufacturing, and services. It includes refreshed statistics and figures regarding world populations, groups, and geography to provide students with the most up-to-date information possible. It also contains new data on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on world geography.By reading Human Geography, students gain a historically contextualised understanding of how the world's geographies have been formed, from hunting and gathering societies to cyberspace. The book is an idea resource for freshman-level human geography courses.

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Book SynopsisLivelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural livelihoods. These case studies reveal how household relations, poverty and gender all play a part in the changing political economy of rural Africa.Trade Review'It is a thoughtful and concise book. A sophisticated and comprehensive analysis of rural livelihoods, the household, gender relations and general poverty.' - Journal of Development Studies 'This book can be recommended to serious students of livelihood diversification. It is also useful for Women in Development Studies, as it makes good use of life histories and discusses the impacts on interfamily relationships, undogmatically.' - Progress in Development Studies Table of ContentsPART 1 Changing livelihoods in Eastern and Southern Africa, 1 Making a living: commercial farming, 2 Farming and rural livelihoods in South Africa: a case study, 3 Making a living: migrancy and multiple livelihoods, 4 Rural livelihoods and gender, PART 2 Poverty and livelihoods in Western Kenya, 5 Koguta and Western Kenya, 6 Migration, accumulation and poverty, 7 Poverty and livelihoods, 8 Gender and livelihoods in Koguta, Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.Trade Review`Readable - accessible to undergraduates and certainly interesting to postgraduates...good range of questions and is up-to-date and relavant to current concerns.' - - Malcolm Miles, Oxford Brookes University, UK`Very good on current social theory, good case studies...excellent photographs and global coverage.' - - Dr David Sibley, Hull University, UK`...this text provides an illuminating and intelligent understanding of where, how and why such cities persisit.It's use of seminal works and critical analysis is simply inspiring.' - - Dr M Gillen, Northumbria University"An excellent insight into the city - economically, socially, politically and culturally. Essential undergraduate reading" Heidi Grainger, Liverpool UniversityTable of Contents1. The heterogenity of Cities Steve Pile , Urban 'Disorders' Gerry Mooney , 3. Walled Cities Eugene McLoughlin and John Muncie 4. Divisive Cities Jenny Robinson 5. City Politics Sophie Watson , 6. The Unsustainable City Andy Blowers and Kathy Pain 7. Administered cities Allan Cochrane 8. On Orderings and the City Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile and Christopher Brook

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Book SynopsisAs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) develop, there is a need to demystify the complex geographical world to facilitate computerization in GIS by the inaccuracies that emerge from man-machine interactions in data acquisition and by error propagation in geoprocessing. Users need to be aware of the impacts of uncertainties in spatial analysis andTable of ContentsPreface. Geographical Information and Uncertainty. Geographical Perspectives. Geographical Measurement and Data. Exploring Geographical Uncertainty. Uncertainty in Continuous Variables. Uncertainty in Categorical Variables. Uncertainty in Objects. Uncertainty-Informed Geographics. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisNew urban applications are emerging for remote sensing, in particular with the use of high-resolution data for measuring, monitoring and analysis. This comes through the use of high spatial resolution imaging, such as for precision mapping of cities; new techniques for population mapping; extracting urban land use features, and evaluating the city energy patterns; and through the use of night-time imagery for determining populations and economic activity, particularly on a global scale. Remotely Sensed Cities helps to redress the balance with remote sensing books, most of which are dedicated to the physical environment. It is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, along with research scientists and brings together a good deal of topical work applying remote sensing to the understanding of urban features, their behavior and growth.Table of ContentsPreface Remotely-Sensed Cities: An Introduction. High Spatial Resolution Data. Cities by Day. Cities by Night.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the land use planning system in England, the way that housing providers engage with that system, and how the processes of engagement are changing or might change in the future.Planning, market and social house building - the three key processes - are first dissected and explored individually, then brought together to study the key areas of interaction between planning and the providers of social and market housing by way of the range of tensions that have consistently dogged those interactions. Extensive illustrative case study material provides a platform to the consideration of developing more integrated, realistic and proactive approaches to planning.Proposing evolutionary, and sometimes radical proposals for change, Delivering New Homes makes a bold contribution to finding a better way of delivering the newTable of ContentsPart 1: Processes 1. Introduction 2. Planning Process 3. Housing Development Process 4. Social Housing Process Part 2:Tensions 5. Land 6. Delay 7. Discretion 8. Design 9. Gain 10. Co-ordination Part 3:Solutions 11. Streamlined Implementation 12. Inclusive Planning and Decision Making 13. Integrated and Realistic Working Practices 14. Certainty and Transparency 15. Positive and Proactive Planning 16. Moving On References Index

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Book SynopsisGeoSensor Networks addresses multiple research challenges related to real-time geosensor data collection, management, analysis, and delivery. It examines these issues in a collection of papers submitted by experts in diverse research domains. Providing a cross-disciplinary forum that will foster collaboration and development, this volume has four sections, each of which represents a major aspect of geosensor networks: databases; image processing; computer networks; and applications. Combined, these papers deliver an excellent snapshot of the state-of-the-art in these fields, and offer a thoughtful and balanced evaluation of the potential and emerging challenges of these networks.Table of ContentsGeoSensor Networks and Virtual GeoReality, Databases and Sensor Networks, Image Processing and Sensor Networks, Computer Networks and Sensor Networks, Geospatial Applications of Sensor Networks, Author Index, Index

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Book SynopsisInternational contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development. Illustrated by data and ''stylized'' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize accepted theories and inform how places can cope in the knowledge economy.Based in concept on Cooke''s Knowledge Economies (Routledge, 2002), Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy is a well-grounded work exploring this increasingly important theme with relevance to innovation systems and related economic development literature.Trade Review'The book is written in "academic" but as editor Philip Cooke says, it raises good questions for policy-makers.' – Public"[This] book deserves to be well consulted by academics and policy-makers." - Regional Studies'The book is written in "academic" but as editor Philip Cooke says, it raises good questions for policy-makers.' – Public"[This] book deserves to be well consulted by academics and policy-makers." - Regional StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: Regional Asymmetries, Knowledge Categories and Innovation Intermediation 2. Localised Knowledge Spillovers: The Key to Innovativeness in Industrial Clusters? 3. Knowledge-Intensive Industries and Regional Development: The Case of the Software Industry in Norway Arne Isaksen (STEP Group, Oslo) 4. The Impact of Geography on the Innovative Productivity of Software Firm in the Netherlands 5. Constructing Regional Innovation Systems through a Triple Helix: Lessons and Inspiration from the Northern Hemisphere 6. Sourcing of Market Knowledge in Biotechnology 7. Knowledge Access at Distance: Strategies and Practices of New Biotechnology Firms in Emerging Locations 8. Linking Less-Favoured Finnish Regions to the Knowledge Economy Through University Filial Centres 9. Economic Growth in Emerging Knowledge Intensive Areas: The High-Tech Cluster in Pisa 10. An Emerging ICT Cluster in a Marginal Region: The Sardinian Experience 11. Cooperation Networks and Regional Development: Case of Multisectoral Partnership for Innovation 12. The New Knowledge Regions: From Simple to Complex Innovation Theory 13. Conclusions. Variety and Miracles for Successful Regional Innovation Policies: From 'Copy and Paste' to 'Copy and Paste Special'

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Book SynopsisIn both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different groups are too often exclusionary.Yet many well designed public spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many different activities that constantly define and redefine the characteristics and quality of public space.This book draws on three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space management on an international stage. They are set within a context of theoretical debates about public space, its history, contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western society, and about the new management approaches that are increasingly being adopted.Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptualising Public Space and its Management 1. The Use and Nature of Public Space 2. Public Space through History 3. Contemporary Debates and Public Space 4. A Typology of Management Approaches Part 2: Investigating Public Space Management 5. Three Studies, Three Related Research Approaches 6. One Country, Multiple Endemic Problems 7. One Country, Twelve Innovative Authorities 8. Eleven Countries, Eleven Innovative Cities 9. Eleven Innovative Cities, Many Ways Forward 10. Two World Cities, Three Iconic Spaces 11. Three Iconic Spaces, Two In-Depth Analyses 12. Debates, Problems and Possible Solutions

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have maintained or lost sustainability and how cities and regions of today might achieve sustainability in the future, it gives a clear definition, and an understanding of the true meaning, of sustainability provides a new conceptual framework for the assessment of the sustainability of cities and regions reveals what options are available for humankind to achieve or loose sustainability identifies research that will allow the systematic establishment of the appropriate indicators for sustainable development in cities and regions. Presenting a framework to guide and direct research in the measures needed to achieve and maintain sustainability, the book will be of considerable help to local authorities and political and Table of ContentsPart 1: The Quest for Sustainable Development 1. United Nations Frameworks for Sustainable Development 2. The EU Debate on Sustainable Development 3. The UK Guidance to Achieve Sustainable Development 4. Best Practice Case Studies 5. ConclusionsDevelopment Part 2: A Scientific Foundation for Sustainable Development 6. Science, Complexity and Sustainability 7. Settlements and Cities in History that correspond to Types 0, 1 and 2 of Sustainability 8. Challenges to Sustainability 9.Availability and Choice of Options

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsEditorial: On Performatics/RICHARD GOUGH &. GRZEGORZ ZIOEKOWSKI -- Towards an Anthropology of Performance(s)/LESZEK KOLANKIEWICZ -- The Performative Matrix: Alladeen and Disorientalism/JON MCKENZIE -- My Performatics/TOMASZ KUBI KOWSKI -- The Ceramic Age: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of Performance Studies/ALAN READ -- Song from Beyond the Dark/DARIUSZ KOSIISISKI -- Surrogate Stages: Theatre, Performance and the Challenge of New Media/CH RISTOPH ER BALM E -- A Debate between Wlodzimierz Staniewski and Leszek Kolankiewicz, led by Grzegorz Ziolkowski -- The Key to All Locks: Conversation between Wojciech Dudzik, Dariusz Kosinski, Tomasz Kubikowski, Malgorzata Leyko and Dobrochna Ratajczakowa -- Back of Beyond/RICHARD GOUGH -- Raft and Mooring/DARIUSZ KOSIISISKI -- Notes on Contributors.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsCommentary -- The Importance of the Financial Crisis /Alexander Nicoll -- Ukraine Since the War in Georgia /Dominique Arel -- Noteworthy -- Trauma and Transition... -- Securing the Peace: Presidents and Nation Building from FDR to George W. Bush /James Dobbins -- A New American Middle East Strategy? /Robert E. Hunter -- Fragile States: Securing Development /Robert B. Zoellick -- in Asia -- Why War in Asia Remains Thinkable /Hugh White -- Why East Asian War is Unlikely /Richard A. Biizinger and Barry Desker -- in the Middle East -- The Gulf's Renewed Oil Wealth: Getting it Right This Time? /Suzanne Maloney -- Is the Arab World Immune to Democracy? /Volker Perthes -- Plus -- The Evangelical Roots of US Africa Policy /Asteris Huliaras -- Review Essays -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 /Raffaello Pantucci -- Reports from the Revolution /Russell Crandall -- Book Reviews -- United States /John L. Harper -- Europe Hanns / W. Maull -- Russia and Eur0asia /Oksana Antonenko -- Brief Notices -- From the Archives -- Survival 1998-2007 -- Closing Argument -- Real America /Dana H. Allin.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsCommentary -- What the Torture Memos Tell Us /Karen J. Greenberg -- Sovereignty at Sea /James Kraska -- Iran: Breaking the Deadlock /Jean-Louis Gergorin -- Noteworthy -- The Unravelling of Pakistan /John R. Schmidt -- Europe, Guantanamo and the 'War on Terror': An Exchange /Nigel Inkster, -- Robert Whalley, Matthew C. Waxman and Sibylle Scheipers -- A New Era of Food Insecurity? /Alan Dupont and Mark Thirlwell -- The Limits of Chinese-Russian Partnership /Rajan Menon -- Occupying Iraq: A Short History of the CPA /James Dobbins -- The Case for No First Use /Scott D. Sagan -- Review Essays -- On War and Peace /Bruno Tertrais -- More With Less /Ian Bremmer Future Imperfect /Sara Robinson -- Book Reviews -- Economics, Resources and the Environment /Bill Emmott -- Latin America /Russell Crandall -- Europe /Erik Jones -- Brief Notices -- Letters to the Editor -- Closing Argument -- Elusive Power, Essential Leadership /Erik Jones.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsCommentary -- Iran: Diplomacy and Deterrence /Andrew Parasiliti -- Noteworthy -- Nuclear Options -- The Case for No First Use: An Exchange /Morton H. Halperin, Bruno Tertrais, -- Keith B. Payne, K. Subrahmanyam and Scott D. Sagan -- Rethinking Afghanistan -- Afghanistan: How Much is Enough? /Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson -- Afghan Q&A: Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- Germany's Options in Afghanistan /Timo Noelzel and Thomas Rid -- The Roots of Iran's Election Crisis /Amin Saikal -- Turkey's War at Home /Steven A. Cook -- The New Problem of Arctic Stability /Margaret Blunden -- The Future of European Defence Policy /Pierre-Henri d'Argenson -- Review Essays -- Lincoln's Grim Realism /Eliot A. Cohen -- Turkey, Islam and Europe /Erik Jones -- Australia's Different Defence Policy /Hugh White -- Sino-Russian Myths /Andrew C. Kuchins -- Book Reviews -- Middle East /Steven Simon -- United States /David Calleo -- Politics and International Relations /Pierre Hassner -- South Asia /Teresita C. Schaffer -- War, Conflict and the Military /H.R. McMaster -- Closing Argument -- Mr Obama Goes to Moscow /Oksana Antonenko.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book SynopsisCan the British plan? Sometimes it seems unlikely. Across the world we see grand designs and visionary projects: new airport terminals, nuclear power stations, high-speed railways, and glittering buildings. It all seems an unattainable goal on Britain's small and crowded island; and yet perhaps this is too pessimistic. For the British have always planned, and much of what they have today is the result of past plans, successfully implemented. Ranging widely, from London's squares and the new city of Milton Keynes, to High Speed One', the motorways, and the secret first electronic computers, Ian Wray's remarkable book puts successful infrastructure plans under the microscope. Who made these plans and what made them stick? How does this reflect the defining characteristics of British government? And what does that say about the individuals who drew them up and saw them through? In so doing the book casts refreshing new light on how big decisions have actually been made, rTrade Review‘A hugely ambitious and equally entertaining treatise that offers considerable insight into the the practice of planning in Britian’Town Planning Review‘A rich, lively and interesting foray into the history and culture of planning in Britain… an engaging, diverse overview… always asking what makes British planning unique’Planning Perspectives‘An excellent book demonstrating the status of planning in the UK… designed to make the reader reflect on their own interpretations. The case studies are interesting stories in their own right’Journal of Urban Affairs‘Ian Wray’s superb historical review of some major British achievements and the way they were planned provides an excellent context for considering how to improve the process…Academy of Urbanism Journal‘The stories which Wray tells are fascinating’Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation‘Highly readable... I recommend that (Ministers) read Wray’s excellent book to understand that good planning seems to mean giving local institutions and the innovative individuals that serve them the space to put their plans into effect’Town and Country PlanningTable of ContentsForeword by the Right Honourable the Lord Heseltine CH, Part I: Context, 1. Manoeuvre Well Executed? On Rational Plans and British Plans, Part II: Case Studies, 2. Landlords and Objectors: London’s Roads and Squares, 3. The Making of an English Landscape: Capability Brown and the New Aesthetic, 4. Urban Pastoral: The Building of Birkenhead Park, 5. The Uses of Disorder: Bletchley Park and the World’s First Computer, 6. The Cambridge Paradox: Phenomenal Growth; Planned Restraint, 7. Driving Ambitions: Engineering the British Motorways, 8. The City as Chessboard: Constructing the New City of Milton Keynes, 9. The Dream of Caligula: The Channel Tunnel and Its Rail Link, 10. The Pedaller’s Tale: Pioneering the National Cycle Network, Part III: Explanations and Implications, 11. Common Threads: Drawing Together the Case Studies, 12. Who’s in Charge? The British Government Machine, 13. How Britain Works: Pluralism, Autonomy and Individualism, 14. British Futures, British Plans: Conclusions and Implications

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Book SynopsisThis text aims to provide a fresh view of contemporary geography. The authors explore the role of four traditional themes in the "new cultural geography" including the interplay between the evolution of particular biophysical niches and the activities of the culture groups that inhabit them.Trade ReviewA large audience will find the book useful as well as absorbing and provocative. This is an impressive document: scholarly, informative, and literate. -- Everett G. Smith, Jr., University of OregonThe Murphy and Johnson volume stands out as being singularly important, and though it will be read by cultural geographers, it should be read by practitioners from other sub-disciplines as well, particularly those who have been less than impressed, and terribly enamored, of cultural geography in the past. There is much to be learned from this volume, in no small way because it involves contributions by the best cultural geographers. * Economic Geography *The collection does not contain a flat article. The papers in this collection make a genuine effort to bring their words to a level of understanding that will cause future encounters with the environment to gain some new meaning if good cultural geography is practiced and applied in response to such encounters. * Annals of the Association of American Geographers *It should go without saying that all cultural geographers should read this book. Portions will be of interest to other geographers as well as scholars in other fields. Both the editors and the publisher should be commended. * Progress In Human Geography *The individual papers chosen by the editors are both meritorious and variously interesting. * Historical Geography *The quality of the essays is high, and they make important contributions to scholarship in cultural geography. -- Mona Domosh, Florida Atlantic UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Encounters with Environment and Place Part 2 Part I: Constructing Cultural Spaces Chapter 3 Domestic Architecture in Early Colonial Mexico: Material Culture as (Sub)Text Chapter 4 The Clash of Utopias: Sisterdale and the Six-Sided Struggle for the Texas Hill Country Chapter 5 The Struggle for Urban Public Spaces: Disposing of the Toronto Waterfront in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 6 Place Your Bets: Rates in Frontier Expansion in American History, 1650–1890 Part 7 Part II: Remaking the Environment Chapter 8 Wittfogel East and West: Changing Perspectives on Water Development in South Asia and the United States, 1670–2000 Chapter 9 Wetlands as Conserved Landscapes in the United States Chapter 10 Navigability of American Waters: Resolving Conflict through Applied Historical Geography Chapter 11 Environmental History: From the Conquest to the Rescue of Nature Part 12 Part III: Claiming Places Chapter 13 Place Metaphor and Milieu in Hemingway’s Fiction Chapter 14 Cultural and Medical Geography: Evolution, Convergence, and Innovation Chapter 15 Language and Identity in Russia’s National Homelands: Urban-Rural Contrasts Chapter 16 Sharing Sacred Space in the Holy Land Chapter 17 An Absence of Place: Expectation and Realization in the West Bank Chapter 18 Conclusion: Contemplating Enduring Themes and Future Trajectories Chapter 19 Epilogue: Each Particular Place: Culture and Geography Part 20 Index Part 21 About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisEngaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. From popular movies such as Pulp Fiction, Bulworth, Terminator 2, and The Crying Game to home movies and avant-garde films, the analyses and teaching methods in this collection will engage students and researchers in film and media studies, cultural geography, social theory, and cultural studies.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book. It is a very readable volume of essays that substantiates the importance of film study in geography and geographic study of film. * Annals of the Association of American Geographers *Singularly smart, these essays excavate the dense spatialities—both fixed and destabilized—at work in the moving image. Cresswell and Dixon have compiled what is surely a landmark volume in cultural geography. -- John Paul Jones III, University of KentuckyTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Film Part 2 Engaging Mobility Chapter 4 Rethinking the Observer: Film, Mobility, and the Construction of the Subject Chapter 5 Spectacular Violence, Hypergeography, and the Question of Alienation in Pulp Fiction Chapter 6 Telling Travelers' Tales: The World through Home Movies Part 7 Engaging Identity Chapter 9 Lacan: The Movie Chapter 10 Chips off the Old Ice Block: Nanook of the North and the Relocation of Cultural Identity Chapter 11 Masculinity in Conflict: Geopolitics and Performativity in The Crying Game Chapter 12 Smoke Signals: Locating Sherman Alexie's Narratives of American Indian Identity Chapter 13 Pax Disney: The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India Chapter 14 Modern Identities in Early German Film: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Part 15 Engaging Pedagogy Chapter 17 Practicing Film: The Autonomy of Images in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Chapter 18 The Real Thing? Contesting the Myth of Documentary Realism through Classroom Analysis of FIlms on Planning and Reconstruction Chapter 19 On Location: Teaching the Western American Urban Landscape through Mi Vida Loca and Terminator 2 Chapter 20 "We Just Gotta Eliminate 'Em": On Whiteness and Film in Matewan, Avalon, and Bulworth Chapter 21 Using Film as a Tool in Critical Pedagogy: Reflections on the Experience of Students and Lecturers

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Book SynopsisObject-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modelling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within a GIS.Table of ContentsThere has been an increasing demand in GIS for systems that support historical data: time-series data as well as mobility information. From a modelling perspective, there are advantages in integrating object-oriented analysis and design to databases as well as to visualisation capabilities of GIS.Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modelling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within a GIS. It also offers practical guidance to object-oriented methods by demonstrating the feasibility of applying such methods to issues involved in handling spatio-temporal data. The author demonstrates how this knowledge might be used in a wide range of applications such as political boundary record maintenance (historical data), disease incidence rate analysis in epidemics (diffusion rate), and environmental studies of climate change (time-series data). This understanding contributes to the development of theory in GIS and improves the design of GIS to support the modelling of semantics, space and time elements of geographical information.

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Book SynopsisContains revised versions of the best papers from the GISRUK 1998 conference. It covers a number of themes with a special focus on GIS and the WWW.Table of ContentsIntegrating Information with GI Technology examines the components necessary for building infrastructures to support the panoply of Geographic Information (GI) research and services. These include novel approaches to two- and three-dimensional spatial analysis and spatio-temporal modelling. The book establishes the case for the Web as the technological backbone of internet and intranet environments, whilst recognising the importance of efficient implementation and the need for high-performance computing to deliver services and share data in an effective manner.This book represents a change in the direction of the Innovation series by focusing on the most innovative current research in the context of a particular theme. Students, researchers and professionals in the expanding market for GI services should find this an invaluable resource.

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Book SynopsisMustafa Dikeç reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions.

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Book SynopsisMobility, accessibility, networks, and interactions across space are at the heart of how spaces and places are brought into being and continue to change. In a series of articles that chart the development of thinking about space, place, and transport, this book highlights the role that a geographic perspective has played in transport studies, raises questions about transport policy, and points to additional questions worthy of research. The volume is divided into four parts covering fundamental concepts, individual behaviour in urban spatial context, inter-regional transport and policy issues.Trade Review'Overall, this book constitutes an extraordinary manual for postgraduate students in that it offers a significant overview of some of the most outstanding papers since 1970 in the field of transportation and geography. This can be very helpful for students to frame their research into progress in the discipline. In addition, it is also useful for other scholars and those with limited access to academic journals.' Urban Geography Research GroupTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Fundamental Concepts: Access and Mobility: What about people in regional science?, Torsten Hägerstrand; Accessibility and intraurban travel, S. Hanson and M. Schwab; Individual accessibility revisited: implications for geographical analysis in the 21st century, Mei-Po Kwan and Joe Weber; How derived is the demand for travel? Some conceptual and measurement considerations, Patricia L. Mohktarian and Ilan Salomon. Access, Networks and Development: Spatial reorganization; a model and a concept, Donald G. Janelle; New directions for understanding transportation and land use, G. Guiliano; Transport expansion in underdeveloped countries: a comparative analysis, Edward J. Taaffe, Richard L. Morrill and Peter R. Gould; Mobility in development context: changing perspectives, new interpretations, and the real issues, T.R. Leinbach. Equity: The BART experience - what have we learned?, Melvin M. Webber; Geography and the political economy of urban transportation, David C. Hodge; Identifying winners and losers in transportation, David Levinson. Costs Associated with Transport: Time pollution, John Whitelegg; A review of the literature on the social cost of motor vehicle use in the United States, James J. Murphy and Mark A. Delucchi. Part II Individual Behaviour in Urban Spatial Context: The determinants of daily travel-activity patterns: relative location and sociodemographic factors, Susan Hanson; Space-time budgets, public transport, and spatial choice, P.C. Forer and Helen Kivell; Spatial knowledge acquisition by children: route learning and relational distances, Reginald G. Golledge, Nathan Gale, James W. Pellegrino and Sally Doherty; Gender and individual access to urban opportunities: a study using space-time measures, Mei-Po Kwan; Gender, race, and commuting among service sector workers, Sarah McLafferty and Valerie Preston. Part III Interregional Transport: A geographer's analysis of hub-and-spoke networks, Morton E. O'Kelly; Intermodal

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field. It also unites them through an innovative introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. Areas covered include the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, environmental virtue ethics, feminist contributions, debates on equity and on the interests and representation of future generations, preservation, sustainability and sustainable development. The importance of attempts to discover a comprehensive ethic relevant both to the environment and other key areas of ethical debate is highlighted. Robin Attfield has been working in this field for thirty years, and has published several related collections and monographs, of which the latest is Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, published by Polity in 2003. The Ethics Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Values and the Environment: Is there a need for a new, an environmental, ethic?, Richard Sylvan (Routley); Is there an ecological ethic?, Holmes Rolston III; Anthropocentrism, atomism, and environmental ethics, Donald Scherer; Postmodernism, value, and objectivity, Robin Attfield; Why environmental ethics shouldn't give up on intrinsic value, Katie McShane; Nature - every last drop of it - is good, Alan Holland. Part II The Land Ethic and Deep Ecology: The land ethic, Aldo Leopold; The shallow and the deep, long range ecology movement: a summary, Arne Naess; Hume's Is/Ought dichotomy and the relation of ecology to Leopold's land ethic, J. Baird Callicott; The land ethic and Callicott's ethical system (1980-2001): an overview and critique, Y.S. Lo; The inadequacy of Callicott's ecological communitarianism, Darren Domsky; Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a 3rd World critique, Ramachandra Guha; Nature, self and gender; feminism, environmental philosophy and the critique of rationalism, Val Plumwood; Beasts versus the biosphere?, Mary Midgley. Part III Biocentric Approaches: On being morally considerable, Kenneth E. Goodpaster; The ethics of respect for nature, Paul W. Taylor; The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic, Tom Regan; Biocentric individualism, Gary Varner; A biocentrist strikes back, James B. Sterba. Part IV Virtue Ethics and Human Values: Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments, Thomas E. Hill Jr; Environmental ethics and weak anthropocentrism, Bryan G. Norton; Must a concern for the environment be centred on human beings?, Bernard Williams; When utilitarians should be virtue theorists, Dale Jamieson. Part V Equity and the Future: Nuclear energy and obligations to the future, R. and V.Routley; Why care about the future?, Ernest Partridge; Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Adaptation, mitigation and justice, Dale Jamieson; Giving a

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Book SynopsisWhile contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses. Any interest in destabilizing such power-knowledge systems calls upon interventions from other voices . Nordic voices in particular have not been well represented in current human geography. This book redresses the balance by offering a unique assessment of the geographical research being undertaken in the Nordic countries and by demonstrating the way in which these voices contribute to international debate. It brings together a range of Nordic authors, each of whom has made a significant contribution to such debates, and considers the relationship between production and social institutions in local development. It also examines the ambiguous role of the welfare state in the Nordic countries, issues of social practice and identity and their relationship to Trade Review’Voices from the North is a fresh, stimulating wind from the North. Combining pieces in keeping with a long tradition of applied research and work informed by a variety of poststructual and feminist theories, this anthology splendidly displays - yet again - that the cutting edge of human geography is not a monopoly of British and North American scholars. For many of the voices in question are not merely well-informed, but original in important ways.’ Professor Allan Pred, University of California, Berkeley, USA ’...an excellent reflection of a characterisitc of research in the Nordic countries: its strong integration with international research...The book gives a good overview of the diversity of the discipline in the Nordic countries as well as a couple of very interesting contributions to the interdisciplinary research field of clusters, innovation systems, and firms' and regions' responses to globalization.’ Journal of Regional Science ’...it helps us understand how useful it can be to think about our own speciality fields in relation to the wider contexts in which they are located or against which they are formed.’ Economic GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Localized capabilities and industrial competitiveness, Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell; On the new economic geography of post-Fordist learning economies, Bjorn T. Asheim; Economy-culture relations and the geographies of regional development, Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt and Michael Haldrup; Welfare states and social polarization, Frank Hensen; Does welfare matter? Ghettoization in the welfare state, Hans Thor Andersen and Eric Clark; Geography, local planning and the production of space - a Swedish context, Jan Öhman; Everyday life and urban planning: an approach in Swedish human geography, Ann-Catherine Aguist; Geography, space and identity, Jouni Hakli and Anssi Paasi; The embodied city: from bodily practice to urban life, Kirsten Simonsen; Rural geography and feminist geography: discourses on rurality and gender in Britain and Scandinavia, Nina Gunnerud Berg and Gunnel Forsberg; Choreographs of life youth, place and migration, Anders Lofgren; In search of the Nordic landscape: a personal view, Kenneth R. Olwig; Samhallgeografi and the politics of nature: tracing the Nordic forest regimes in the era of globalization, Ari Lehtinen; Racialization and migration in urban segregation processes: key issues for critical geographers, Roger Andersson and Irene Molina; In Visible City: insecurity, gender and power relations in urban space, Hille Koskela; Landscape of landscapes, Gunnar Olsson.

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Book SynopsisThe development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th. Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to changes in the physical form and institutional infrastructure of the city of London during the 1990s when the city was a prime terrorist target. The book analyses how the various formal and informal strategies adopted in the City attempted to reduce both the physical and financial risk of terrorism. This was undertaken through a series of place-specific security initiatives and risk management policies which led to increased fortification, a substantial rise in terrorism insurance premiums, and, changing institutional relations at a variety of spatial scales. It also argues that the security Trade Review’Global terrorism has moved cities into the front-line of a battle with no boundaries and no visible enemies. This carefully researched book, with its focus on the activities of the Provisional IRA in London, provides valuable insight into the threat posed by terrorists and the responses available to the state. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the world’s major cities.’ John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes University, UK ’...essential reading for anyone seeking [to] grapple with the place of cities within today's never-ending states of emergency.’ Professor Stephen Graham, Newcastle University, UK ’There can be few security professionals who do not have the threat of terrorism on their list of risk factors. This book is therefore recommended without hesitation to anyone who has an interest in learning more about the impact of terrorism on the urban environment...you should take the time to read this book.’ Professional Security ’Innovative, interesting, indispensable ­ invest in a copy!’ Habitat ’...the work of Coaffee is most appreciated. The book gives a rich insight into many aspects of the London case...the book of Coaffee is rational in its analysis...’ disP ’This is an innovative book...brings together issues for those studying the built environment who may not have had cause nor reason in the past to study security related issues. This book would be just as relevant to a student in sociology, planning or modern history - such [are] the wide-ranging issues that it addresses...a well-written and researched book...anyone involved in urban planning, land use, design or management should purchase this book.’ CEBE Projects and Initiatives ’...excellent...the author’s examination of the London Corporation’s role in developing the Ring of Steel through the brokering of deals between Government and the insurance industry is a stark and timely example of risk society and its consequences.’ Journal of ContTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Transforming Cities in the Age of Terrorism: Introduction: terrorism, risk and the City; Urban restructuring and the development of defensive landscapes; Controlling the security discourse in the postmodern City; Risk society and the global terrorist threat. Part II: The City of London's Response: Constructing and reinforcing the ring of steel; Distributing the financial risk of terrorism; Framing, legitimating and negotiating the City's response to terrorist risk. Part III: Terrorism, Risk and the Future City: Beating the bombers: a decade of counter terrorism in the City of London; Terrorism and future urbanism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy has Myanmar (Burma), a country rich in resources - rice, timber, minerals - descended to ''least developed country'' status? Is the explanation to be found inside Burma or beyond? Is the failure of development due to political authoritarianism and conflict? Or perhaps the drugs trade is partly to blame? This book contends that all these factors have contributed. But it also maintains that the mismanagement of the country''s resources is of equal, or even greater, importance. A clear answer to the question of Burma''s developmental failure is sought by focussing upon the misuse of resources in concert with those factors that are more usually emphasized.Trade Review'We know precious little about Burma, and we should - indeed, need to - know more. Peter Perry's uncompromising and wide-ranging foray into this little known country helps to illuminate Burma's decline and is a valuable and necessary addition to a thin body of work.' Jonathan Rigg, Durham University, UK '...marvelous book that should be welcomed by both lay readers and specialists interested in Myanmar (Burma) in particular and development studies in general...Highly recommended.' Choice 'Peter Perry's Myanmar (Burma) since 1962 is a great addition to the literature on a relatively unknown topic...A geographer by training, Perry provides a different perspective to understanding the roots of Burma's economic crisis...His "integrative" approach, although neither new or revolutionary, is a major contribution to a field that has been predominantly occupied by historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists.' SOJOURN: Journal of social Issues in Southeast Asia '[the author's] command of the country's troubled social history and events leading to the current state of developmental failures make this book an invaluable reference for students and researchers of global studies, Southeast Asian history, political studies and Burmese studies,' Political Studies Review '...gives a useful background to anyone wishing to understand how contemporary Burma reached its present parlous state...' Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Looking at Ne Win's Burma: why and how; Looking at Ne Win's Burma: sources and evidence; Ne Win's Burma and its contexts: socialist and military; Ne Win's Burma and its contexts: isolationism, authoritarianism, Buddhism and the popular response; Rice: the failing driving force; Rice: sustained failure and unsustainable success; Teak and timber: primacy by default; Minerals: new profits and old; Distributional crisis: socialism, shopkeepers, and service providers; Distributional crisis: the alternatives; Insurgencies and drugs; What happened next; What now? Afterwords and afterwards; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA close relationship exists between GIS and numerous applications, including cartography, photogrammetry, geodesy, surveying, computer and information science, and statistics, among others. Scientists coined the term geographic information science (GIScience) to describe the theory behind these fields. A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science extensively details the issues and fundamental scientific problems that must be solved if the use of GIS in these and other fields is to advance.Immediately following the founding of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), the group identified in a Research Agenda the topics that represented major challenges to the GIS research community. The first chapter of this book delivers an introduction to the agenda and to the collective guidance that the agenda provides to researchers. Chapters 2-10 discuss nine original research challenges. Chapters 11-14 provide the basis of the agenda''s four EmTable of ContentsIntroduction to the UCGIS research agenda. Spatial data acquisition and integration. Cognition of geographic information. Scale. Extensions to geographic representations. Spatial analysis and modeling in a GIS environment. Research issues on uncertainty in geographic data and GIS-based analysis. The future of the spatial information infrastructure. Distributed and mobile computing. GIS and society: Interrelation, integration, and transformation. Geographic visualization. Ontological foundations for Geographic information science. Remotely acquired data and information in GIScience. Geospatial data mining and knowledge discovery. Postscript on the UCGIS and research.

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Book SynopsisWhile remote sensing gives a surface depiction of the world, its recent convergence with GIS enables richer depictions that can be used to simulate physical processes, identify trends, and make more accurate predictions.GeoDynamics is based on specialized lectures from an international field of experts, addressing remote sensing, spatially distributed modeling of land surface processes, and urban dynamics as part of the GeoComputation conference. It focuses on this symbiotic relationship in a detailed discussion of both remote sensing and spatially distributed dynamic modeling.The book analyzes recent developments in assembling geographical information such as: the ubiquitous deployment of portable measurement devices enabled with global positioning technology and its impact on the field; the management, benefits, and challenges of modeling dynamic processes in three dimensions; the implications of temporal granularity of simulations to predictions; and the appropriate representation of human factors in GIS. It illustrates the importance of incorporating interdisciplinary sciences to hone GIS capabilities, the advantage of sharing data and representations, and effective communication through visualization. This book establishes how these integrated technologies have become a central part of building spatial representations.GeoDynamics is a lasting record of this groundbreaking conference and a valuable contribution to the growing literature on GeoDynamics for academics and practitioners alike.Trade Review"a well-selected group of papers from keynote speakers and special sessions at GeComputation 2003. As such, it rises well above the usual run of the post-conference publications and will earn its shelf space many times over…provides an excellent overview of the field…perfect reading for a post-graduate starting to build a proposal…useful reading for researchers specializing in other areas of the literature to keep up with developments in this fast moving sub-discipline."-Brian G. Lees, ISPRS Highlights "…very useful state-of-the-art book that will certainly familiarize readers with research-frontier activity within remote sensing…..should have wide appeal to no less than three distinct subcultures…" Journal of Spatial ScienceTable of ContentsRemote Sensing. Physical Processes. Human Processes.

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Book SynopsisThis volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.Trade ReviewIf compelled to cite only a single book on cartography to stock a desert-island shelf or to assign to the eager novice, this is the automatic choice....Although I have been drawing and poring over maps, as well as reading about them, since childhood, I received more revelations about their essential nature and larger meanings from this one powerful, disturbing, totally convincing essay than from all the other books, articles, and lectures on the subject I have ever encountered.'' --Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State University Combining both topical issues relevant to lay readers and serious scholarship, Denis Wood's The Power of Maps will provoke, amuse, tweak, and inform anyone who has had occasion to use, or merely peruse, a map--which is to say, everyone. It is a relentless entertainment--relentlessly challenging to traditional assumptions about cartography, relentlessly witty as it deconstructs (read: demolishes) the pretense of neutral, `scientific' map-making, and relentlessly contrary in reminding us that maps reflect social choices and serve particular political interests.'' --Stephen S. Hall, author of Mapping the Next MillenniumPerhaps the simplest thing to say is that there is nothing quite like it! There are, of course, countless conventional accounts of cartography -- usually a combination of the history of cartography and a catalogue of its technical achievements-- but these are usually Whiggish tales which celebrate the progressive advance of cartography towards 'Truth.' Apart from a short discussion of so-called 'propaganda maps' (which is there simply to mark a departure from the norm, so to speak, an anomaly) these books rarely offer any sustained discussion of what one might call the cultural and political implications of maps and mapping. With the current explosion of interest in cultural politics and social theory, both inside and outside human geography, there is an obvious need for a discussion which resists those conventions. I can think of only Mark Monmonier's HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS -- which from all accounts has done extremely well, but is narrower in scope than Wood's text -- and the late Brian Harley's marvelous essays on deconstruction and mapping -- which may well be too abstract for many readers. In any event, I have no doubt that Denis Wood's book will be a major contribution to this emerging discussion of the power and politics of maps and mapping: it is written in a clear and accessible style but none the less deals with some of the most complex issues in contemporary debates over power, knowledge and spatiality. It is immensely engaging: the examples and illustrations are to the point and by no means obvious, and the issues that are raised extend far beyond the confines of any purely academic discipline. This is one of those rare books that will prompt its readers to re-think some of their most taken-for-granted assumptions and the ways in which those conventions bear on their everyday lives.-- Derek Gregory, The University of British Columbia -Wood's enthusiastic and scholarly contribution to the history of geography, and specifically the history of mapping, is widely acknowledged. The Power of Maps...has been widely reviewed, routinely used in teaching the history of geographical knowledge and rarely goes without citation in scholarship on the geopolitics of maps.--Jane Jacobs in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 10/18/1992ƒƒ Denis Wood's book The Power of Maps sheds a brilliant new light on our customary experience of maps....You will never look at any map the same way again. --The Christian Science Monitor, 10/18/1992ƒƒ ....The last word on maps. --The Trenton Times, 10/18/1992ƒƒ He has some important, indeed compelling, things to say about maps...Wood not only incorporates a great store of historical detail into his essays, he sees maps as peculiar historical texts, as repositories of layers of knowledge and labor that can be revealed if we know how to read them....I highly recommend this unconventional book to historians of science of any period. --Isis, 10/18/1992

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Book SynopsisDrawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place. Trade Review...is a useful contribution to the literature on gender perspectives of the colonized world... --Helen Ruth Aspaas, African Studies Review...presents compelling ways of bringing together ideas from poststructuralist and postcolonial theory around geographical questions, and provides much material, both for those working within a similar intellectual territory, and for those grappling with more general methodological questions. I should find its place on many reading lists, if it has not already done so, as it provides an accessible contribution to contemporary debates around identity, space, and power. -- R. Elmhirst, Wye College University of London, Environment and Planning AThis timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Karen Morin, Growth and ChangeAs edited volumes go, this is a remarkably coherent (and successful) one.... This book makes an important contribution to feminist geography. --Geraldine Pratt, University of British ColumbiaThis is a superb new contribution to the literature on space, power and difference. In drawing together an exciting range of well-researched essays, it articulates the complex relations between gender, class, race and sexuality in different historical and geographic settings. With an emphasis on diversities among women and the contexts within which they occur, it is particularly effective in highlighting the fragmented, fluid and often contradictory nature of identity and space. --Morag Bell, Ph.D., Loughborough University of TechnologyAlthough I don't always see eye to eye with the authors in this volume, I warmly welcome this set of essays on women's colonial and post-colonial cartographics. For here we have a feisty feminist geography that is theoretically self-critical, empirically vigorous, and morally challenging....One thing is certain: coming to grips with this critique will lay upon readers an obligation; an obligation to expose the pretended innocence of the metaphorical and material maps we have historically produced...and the maps we currently plot. --David N. Livingstone, Professor of Geography, The Queen's University of BelfastThis is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, conventional notions of space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to re-imagine space and mapping in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980This is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, notions of transcendent, coherent space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to reimagine space and mappings in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourses in Canada, 1875-1980 - This timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Growth and Change, 8/21/1994

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