Routledge Studies in Human Geography
About the Book Series
The series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field.
Contributions are drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.
Exploring Post-Development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Aram Ziai
November 08, 2013
Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical ...
Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor
November 08, 2013
This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...
Imagined Regional Communities: Integration and Sovereignty in the Global South
1st Edition
By James D. Sidaway
October 23, 2013
Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These ...
Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies
1st Edition
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By Libby Porter, Kate Shaw
September 03, 2013
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or ...
Globalization, Modernity and the City
1st Edition
By John Rennie Short
April 11, 2013
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of ...
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions
1st Edition
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By Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin
November 20, 2012
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale ...
Rural Governance: International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence
September 10, 2012
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and ...
The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis?
1st Edition
By Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn, Samarthia Thankappan
July 27, 2012
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...
The Differentiated Countryside
1st Edition
By Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden and, Jonathan Murdoch, Neil Ward
January 06, 2012
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, ...
Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains: Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System
1st Edition
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By Niels Fold, Bill Pritchard
December 08, 2011
Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh...
Geographies of Commodity Chains
1st Edition
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By Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer
December 08, 2011
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (...
Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
By Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz
November 24, 2011
For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an ...