Geography

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Encountering the city, 2nd Edition
By Simon Parker

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the oftentimes unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. Read more

Understanding cultural framings in disaster risk reduction
Edited by Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, and E. Lisa F. Schipper

Culture and Disasters adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore this cultural dimension of disaster, with contributions from leading international experts within the field. Section I provides discussion of theoretical considerations and practical research to better understand the important of culture in hazards and disasters. Read more

From Climate Change to Fragile States
Edited by Ian Christoplos, Adam Pain

Food security is high on the political agenda. Fears about societal insecurity due to food price increases and hunger, grave scenarios regarding the effects of climate change and general uncertainty about the impacts of investments in biofuels and so-call “land grabbing” on food prices and availability have meant that food security is now recognized as being a multifaceted challenge. This book is unique in that it will bring together analyses of these different factors that impact on food security. Read more...

Click here to read a fascinating interview with Roger Mac Ginty, the joint author of The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action. He reveals the reasons why he decided to write this book, how this book is different than other books in the field and what he found surprising when researching the book. Roger Mac Ginty's new book The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action is out in March and  Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding is out in paperback in April.

(There are more books on humanitarian issues in the Routledge Humanitarian Studies Series, edited by Alex de Waal and Thea Hilhorst)
 

"This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking volume, with surprising insights. Of the many books on climate change, this one really hits on the essentials of "What are we going to do about it?" and "Why haven't we done anything yet?" … This work will make readers think and realize that although addressing climate change is complicated, achieving workable solutions is even more complicated. Well-written and engaging reading for both social and physical scientists working on or interested in climate change or associated issues. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general audiences." - B. Ransom, formerly University of California, San Diego, in CHOICE, June 2014

Click here to order your copy of Successful Adaptation to Climate Change 

Other Routledge books awarded Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Reviews can be found here

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Congratulations to Emma S. Norman, author of Governing Transboundary Waters who has been awarded the 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award by the Political Geography Specialty Group! This award is given to the author(s) of the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of political geography. 

Congratulations to Kathryn Gillepsie and Rosemary-Claire Collard, editors of Critical Animal Geogrphies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World, on being honored at the 2015 AAG Geographical Perspectives on Women (GPOW) Book Event!