Books in the Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies series

Builds a conceputal framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind the momentous shifts in US policies and politics. This book mounts an indictment of the institutions of power, while offering insights about how these institutions could be changed.

Focusing on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order, Allen J. Scott discusses the problems of the location of economic activities, learning and innovation in industrial systems, and economic development. These problems are dealt with in both theoretical and empirical terms.

This study of tropical deforestation reports on the first phase of a large, integrated, multi-institutional, and team-based study. Based in Mexico, it is designed to understand and project land changes in a development frontier that pits the needs of smallholder farmers to cut down forests for cultivation against federally sponsored initiatives.