Environmental Geography
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A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Edited by Colin Sage
Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests that continues to drive rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that conf...eBook:Find out more$37.60
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A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
Edited by Shannon O’Lear
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and...eBook:Find out more$37.60
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From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions
Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine
A political scientist and an urban architect explore China’s odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics
Edited by Shannon O’Lear
Challenging the mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within geopolitics and using a range of metho...eBook:Find out more$25.56
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A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism
Edited by Stephen F. McCool, Keith Bosak
Exploring tourism in an increasingly valuable landscape, this forward-looking book examines the importance of the sustainability of global travel. Leading authors in the field outline the major trajectories for research helpful in develo...eBook:Find out more$40.76
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Introduction to Regional Economic Development
Mustafa Dinc
This is a relatively simple and easy to read introduction of major regional and local economic development theories, their theoretical evolution and other relevant topics such as governance, institutions and local leadership within the g...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Water Allocation in Rivers under Pressure
Dustin Evan Garrick
Water trading and river basin governance have been upheld as institutional blueprints for allocating water for people, agriculture and ecosystems in a changing climate. Progress has been uneven, however, despite multiple decades of insti...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Healthy Cities
Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, John Gallacher
Mounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our cities’ built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the ‘urban health niche’ as a nov...eBook:Find out more$51.16
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more$28.76
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Household Sustainability
Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Nicholas Gill, Lesley Head, Gordon Waitt
The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism tha...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional ...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia
David Feldman, Ivan Blokov
The authors, renowned experts in the field, explore efforts to develop a mature civil society in Russia, and analyse the policy views of environmental groups, the media, and the scientific community. Three important case studies underpin...eBook:Find out more$28.76