Geography Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. East Asia in the World

   An Introduction

   Edited by Anne Prescott

   Series: Foundations in Global Studies

   From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia, with an emphasis on the globalizing processes the region is undergoing. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book...

   Published May 19th 2015 by Routledge
2. Understanding Social Movements

   By Greg Martin

   This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It considers major theories and concepts, which are presented in an accessible and engaging format. Historical and...

   Published May 14th 2015 by Routledge
3. Population and Development

   2nd Edition

   By W.T.S. Gould

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   The new edition of Population and Development offers an up-to-date perspective on one of the critical issues at the heart of the problems of development for all countries, and especially those that seek to implement major economic and social change: the reflexive relationships between a country’s...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
4. Urban Economics

   By John M. Hartwick

   This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject. It focuses on structural details and explains the elements that make cities such highly productive entities, and also explores explores the...

   Published April 23rd 2015 by Routledge
5. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

   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 often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. From the foundations...

   Published April 20th 2015 by Routledge
6. The Elements of Environmental Pollution

   By John Rieuwerts

   Environmental pollution is one of humanity’s most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Anthropogenic activity is disturbing natural cycles and generating pollutants that are altering the atmosphere, accumulating in the food chain and contaminating the world’s soils, rivers...

   Published April 16th 2015 by Routledge
7. Understanding Cultural Geography

   Places and traces, 2nd Edition

   By Jon Anderson

   Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a comprehensive introduction to perhaps the most exciting and challenging area of human geography. By focusing on the notion of ‘place’ as a key means through which culture and identity is grounded, the book showcases the broad range of...

   Published March 23rd 2015 by Routledge
8. Managing the City Economy

   Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries

   By Le-Yin Zhang

   In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy. It explores key challenges and strategies, particularly in developing countries, where developmental deficits are greatest and almost all urban...

   Published March 19th 2015 by Routledge
9. Understanding Poverty and the Environment

   Analytical frameworks and approaches

   By Fiona Nunan

   Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle portrayal of ‘poverty leading to environmental...

   Published March 17th 2015 by Routledge
10. Psychosocial Studies

    An Introduction

    By Kath Woodward

    There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers a creative, innovative and rich set of ways of understanding what Charles Wright Mills called the...

    Published February 20th 2015 by Routledge