Category: Human Geography

By Anoop Nayak

Geographical concept offers a transparent and available creation to the main principles and figures in human geography. The publication presents an important advent to the theories that experience formed the examine of societies and house. establishing with an exploration of the founding ideas of human geography within the 19th century academy, the authors learn the diversity of theoretical views that experience emerged inside of human geography over the past century from feminist and marxist scholarship, via to post-colonial and non-representational theories. every one bankruptcy comprises insightful traces of argument that inspire readers in the direction of autonomous pondering and important overview. aiding fabrics contain a word list, visible pictures, extra analyzing feedback and discussion containers.

By Michael C. Hall, Jarkko Saarinen

The world’s polar areas are attracting extra curiosity than ever prior to. as soon as considered as barren, inhospitable areas the place in basic terms explorers move, the north and south polar areas were remodeled into excessive profile tourism locations, more and more visited via cruise ships in addition to changing into obtainable with direct flights. Tourism is noticeable as one of many few monetary possibilities in those areas yet while the polar areas are being spread out to tourism improvement they're suffering from a few new components which are interconnected to trip and tourism. weather switch, panorama and species loss, expanding curiosity in power assets and minerals, social adjustments in indigenous societies, and a brand new polar geopolitics all deliver into query the sustainability of polar areas and where of tourism inside of them. This well timed quantity presents a latest account of tourism and its affects in polar areas. It explores the advance and customers of polar tourism, in addition to tourism’s affects and linked switch at excessive latitudes from environmental, monetary, social and political views. It attracts on leading edge learn from either the Arctic and Antarctic to supply a comparative assessment and illustrate the true lifestyles concerns bobbing up from tourism’s position in those areas. Integrating concept and perform the booklet totally evaluates various views on polar tourism and proposes activities which may be taken by way of neighborhood and worldwide administration to accomplish a sustainable destiny for polar areas and improvement of tourism. this entire and present account of polar tourism matters is written by way of a global group of top researchers during this region and should have international entice greater point scholars, researchers, lecturers in Tourism, Environmental reviews, Arctic/Polar reviews and conservation lovers alike.

By Heirman, A. (ed.), Bumbacher, S.P. (ed.), Ann Heirman, Stephan Peter Bumbacher

This publication unravels many of the complicated components that allowed or hampered the presence of (certain features of) Buddhism within the areas to the north and the east of India, equivalent to Asia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, or Korea.

By Bruce J. Doran, Melissa B. Burgess

Since first rising as a subject matter of outrage within the past due Sixties, worry of crime has turn into essentially the most researched themes in modern criminology and gets huge awareness in more than a few different disciplines together with social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers having a look the topic have regularly exposed alarming features, essentially in terms of the behavioural responses that individuals undertake relating to their worry of crime. This booklet studies on study carried out over the last 8 years, during which efforts were made to pioneer the mix of ideas from behavioural geography with Geographic details platforms (GIS) with a purpose to map the terror of crime.

The first a part of the e-book outlines the historical past of study into worry of crime, with an emphasis at the many ways which were used to enquire the matter and the necessity for a spatially-explicit process. the second one half offers a technical holiday down of the GIS-based innovations used to map worry of crime and summarises key findings from separate examine websites. The authors describe collective avoidance behaviour on the subject of disease decline versions equivalent to the damaged home windows Thesis, the capability to combine worry mapping with police-community partnerships and rising avenues for additional examine. matters mentioned contain worry of crime in terms of housing costs and disease, using worry mapping as a method with which to observe the impression of Closed Circuit tv (CCTV) and worry mapping in transit environments.

By Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey

Perfect houses? exhibits how either well known photographs and reviews of domestic existence relate to the power of society's individuals to supply and reply to social switch. The publication offers for the 1st time an research of the distance of the house and the studies of domestic existence through writers from quite a lot of disciplines, together with sociology, structure, geography and anthropology. It covers a variety of matters, together with gender roles, diverse generations relationships to domestic, the altering nature of the kin, transition and probability and substitute visions of domestic.

By Ross Poole

By Mike Parnwell

The interrelationship among migration and improvement is complicated. The reasons of migration stem from the uneveness of the improvement strategy and the results exert a robust impression at the trend and means of improvement. This quantity explores either the thoughts and proof at the back of the most kinds of inhabitants flow within the 3rd international at the present time, relatively rural-urban migration. interpreting the reasons and results of migration, the writer assesses the results for making plans and policy-makers.

By Patrizia Palumbo, Angelo del Boca, Giulia Barrera, Barbara Sòrgoni, Nicola Labanca, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Lucia Re, Giorgio Bertellini, Cecilia Boggio, Karen Pinkus, Cinzia Sartini-Blum, Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's nationwide identification, an intensive research of Italian colonial historical past and tradition has been lengthy late. very important advancements, the expansion of postcolonial reports and the debate surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it transparent that the dialogue of Italy's colonial earlier is vital to any figuring out of the heritage and development of the state. This assortment, the 1st to assemble articles via the most-respected students in Italian colonial stories, highlights the ways that colonial discourse has pervaded Italian tradition from the post-unification interval to the current. through the Risorgimento, Africa used to be invoked as a limb of a proudly resuscitated Imperial Rome. through the Fascist period, imperialistic politics have been the most important in shaping either family and foreign perceptions of the Italian country. those participants provide compelling essays on decolonization, exoticism, fascist and liberal politics, anthropology, and historiography, let alone well known literature, feminist reports, cinema, and kid's literature. as the Italian colonial prior has had large repercussions, not just in Italy and within the former colonies but in addition in different international locations indirectly concerned, students in lots of parts will welcome this wide and insightful landscape of Italian colonial tradition.

By Torsten Wissmann

Site visitors, tune, language and nature support to create particular soundscapes which are necessary to the place-based personality of every urban. considering either the city soundscape and the affects of sound at the city dweller, this publication examines sound now not as a derivative of city lifestyles, yet as a primary a part of the city event that's the most important to realizing the city´s experience of position. Illustrated by means of case experiences from Europe and North the USA, those diversity from on-site measurements to the development of audio excursions for neighborhood tourism, from media research of pop culture audio drama to sound-identity and town branding, and from the category of noise in urban making plans to a attention of the advanced courting among sacred sound and the construction of a feeling of place.

Taking a social geographic standpoint, the booklet specializes in the consequences of sounds at the person and the way they impact the methods s/he engages town as position, in particular of their day-by-day exercises. In doing so, it uncovers the socio-scientific strength of sound within the city atmosphere, in keeping with the knowledge that sound can't and must never be obvious as indifferent from the city panorama, yet really as a constituting aspect. Sound exists not just ‘within the city’: it ‘is’ the town.

By Gary Hamburg, Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker

This publication provides striking texts - The Shining of Swords through Al-Qarakhi and a brand new translation for a modern readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain battle among the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian military from 1830 to 1859. The authors provide an entire statement at the numerous highbrow and non secular contexts that formed the 2 texts and clarify the ancient importance of the Russian-Muslim war of words. it's proven that the mountain battle was once a conflict of 2 cultures, spiritual outlooks and assorted worlds. The publication presents a tremendous historical past for the continued contest among Russia and indigenous humans for regulate of the Caucasus.