Human Geography
Traffic jam
Ten years of 'sustainable' transport in the UK
This book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable transport policy 10 years after the publication of "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone".
The future of sustainable cities
Critical reflections
An up-to-date assessment by prominent scholars of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and core areas for future research.
Urban renaissance?
New Labour, community and urban policy
This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities.
The new countryside?
Ethnicity, nation and exclusion in contemporary rural Britain
This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain, in depth and for the first time. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture.
Fair play
A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice
Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media, this reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice.
Protest Camps in International Context
Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements’ contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.
Radical Food Geographies
Power, Knowledge and Resistance
This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems challenges across places, spaces, and scales. With global case studies, it explores the interconnections between the social and ecological dynamics of food systems, exploring efforts to co-construct more equitable and sustainable food systems for all.
Decolonizing Development
Food, Heritage and Trade in Post-Authoritarian Environments
Combining an analysis of political economy and ecocultural heritage, this book examines post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa in an unusual comparative study of post-authoritarian efforts to decolonize production and trade.
Migration and Welfare in the New Europe
Social Protection and the Challenges of Integration
Providing innovative insights, this book moves the debate on migration and integration policies in the enlarged European Union and its member states onto new terrain.
Social-Spatial Segregation
Concepts, Processes and Outcomes
This edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.
City matters
Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance
This book provides a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance.
Resilience and Ageing
Creativity, Culture and Community
A multidisciplinary collection examining how cultural engagement can enhance resilience, reduce social isolation and help older people to thrive and overcome challenging life events and everyday problems associated with ageing.