Digital Infrastructures

Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology

Edited by Thomas Horan, Rae Zimmerman

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Planning for Sustainability

Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

By Stephen M. Wheeler

Existing patterns of urbanization are unsustainable in the long run. Current development practices consume enormous amounts of land and resources, damage local ecosystems, produce pollutants,...

Published August 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Himalayan Perceptions

Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples

By Jack Ives

In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth...

Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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Unifying Geography

Common Heritage, Shared Future

Edited by David T. Herbert, John A. Matthews

It can be argued that the differences in content and approach between physical and human geography, and also within its sub-disciplines, are often overemphasised. The...

Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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Fundamentals of Biogeography

By Richard Huggett

Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Planning Middle Eastern Cities

An Urban Kaleidoscope

Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of...

Published July 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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Global Metropolitan

Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World

By John Rennie-Short

Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities,...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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Tourism, Diasporas and Space

Edited by Tim Coles, Dallen J. Timothy

Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, they cut across the...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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Chewing Gum

The Fortunes of Taste

By Michael Redclift

In Chewing Gum, Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

By Anne-Marie Broudehoux

Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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