Regional Geography - Human Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Africa

   Diversity and Development

   By Tony Binns, Alan Dixon, Etienne Nel

   For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Regional Competitiveness

   Edited by Ron Martin, Michael Kitson, Peter Tyler

   Series: Regions and Cities

   There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. This important book considers the factors that influence and shape the competitive performance of regions. This is not just an issue of academic interest and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Portfolio for the Planet

   Lessons from 10 Years of Impact Investing

   By Tammy Newmark, Michele Pena

   Rapid growth of the global economy has accelerated the degradation of the Earth’s most important asset: the environment. Increasing poverty and challenges arising from climate change further threaten the planet’s natural systems. With a rising global population, the demand on natural resources to...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

   Between Local and Global

   Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

   Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

   By Tim Winter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

   Published October 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Trends and Regional Development

   Edited by Nikolai Genov

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries

   New Analytical Approaches

   Edited by Wim Naude, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray

   In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. New approaches in development economics have in recent years started from the premise...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium

   Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book constitutes Volume II of a set of two Volumes. Volume II considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
9. Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I

   Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book constitutes Volume I of a set of two Volumes. Volume I attempts a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in light of intensifying...

   Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
10. Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals)

    Applications to Urban and Regional Systems

    By Alan Wilson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of...

    Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge