How has demography shaped the Arab Spring, migrant flights from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the USA, immigration debates in Japan and economic growth in India and Brazil, among…

This book examines alternative geographies. Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic…

Cities around the world have seen: an increase in population and capital investments in land and building; a shift in central city populations as the poor are forced out; and…

This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.

These major stresses-the country’s longest war, its biggest natural disaster, its biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, its biggest oil spill and its worst pandemic since the influenza pandemic…

Illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This book is organized around three central themes: urban environment in…

Presents an introduction to the broad relationship between people and environments, the emergence of environmental thought and practice and the importance of environmental ideas in wider social and political discourses…

This book examines the changing nature of metropolitan areas through a comprehensive analysis of the historical, demographic, geographic, economic, and political issues facing the US in the twenty-first century.