Pension Fund Capitalism

Gordon L Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book fills the g... Lees meer

Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis

A D Cliff, M R Smallman-Raynor, P Haggett, D F Stroup, S B Thacker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call include... Lees meer

Social Power and the Urbanization of Water

Erik Swyngedouw

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct... Lees meer

Island Epidemics

A D Cliff, P Haggett, M R Smallman-Raynor

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• In Island Epidemics , the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies with equa... Lees meer

Culture and the City in East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book explores the role of culture in the urban transformation of Asian cities. Departing from the strictly economic treatment of urbanization tha... Lees meer

A Critical Geography of Britain's State Forests

Judith Tsouvalis

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Focusing on forests and trees, this book investigates how relations between society and nature change over time. It traces historical perceptions and ... Lees meer

Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes

William M Denevan

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologie... Lees meer

Geopolitics and Empire

Gerry Kearns

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Geopolitics and Empire examines the relations between two phenomena that are central to modern conceptions of international relations. Geopolitics is ... Lees meer

Worlds of Food

Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• From farm to fork, the conventional food chain is under enormous pressure to respond to a whole series of new challenges - food scares in rich countri... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Regional Growth in Europe

Andres Rodriguez-Pose, Andr's Rodr?guez-Pose, Andr S Rodr Guez-Pose

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book looks at the evolution of regional disparities in Europe in a period of profound social and economic change. It represents a thorough analys... Lees meer

Indigenous Land Management in West Africa

Kathleen M Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book examines tropical resource management in West Africa. Drawing widely on field examples, it argues that more account should be taken of ecolo... Lees meer

Gender, Geography, and Punishment

Judith Pallot, Laura Piacentini

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance a... Lees meer

Of States and Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants, and ethnic and racial segregation, are... Lees meer

The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City

David Ley

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities. Placing... Lees meer

Globalization and Urban Change

Kris Olds

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book provides a grounded analysis of globalization and urban change in the late 20th century. Drawing on multi-locale field work, Olds examines t... Lees meer

War Epidemics

M R Smallman-Raynor, A D Cliff

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have b... Lees meer

Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustai... Lees meer

Homelessness, Aids, and Stigmatization

Lois M Takahashi

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• In AIDS, Homelessness, and Stigmatization , Lois Takahashi takes a close look at the social forces behind local-level community opposition to human se... Lees meer

Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities

Frank Moulaert

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Contrary to common beliefs, economic globalization does not imply the end of social urban policy. This book argues that urban society and policy-maker... Lees meer

Putting Voters in Their Place

Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and nei... Lees meer

Manufacturing Culture

Meric S Gertler

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This book presents a new conception of industrial practice and firm behavior. It explains how the cultures that shape the practices of firms and the t... Lees meer

Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest

Thomas M Whitmore, B L Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both... Lees meer

Industrial Transformation in the Developing World

Michael T Rock, David P Angel

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• 'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia pose a critical regional and global sustainability chal... Lees meer

The Modalities of European Union Governance

Alun Jones, Julian Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
• This volume examines the operation of the European Union and its institutions, providing an authoritative study of the processes surrounding the formu... Lees meer