Books in the International Library of Human Geography series

This work looks at how we think and behave in geographic space. The authors have three aims: to provide a synthesis of knowledge from across the disciplines; to provide a critical appraisal of the field; and to put foreward new ideas and theories whilst outlining a future agenda for research.

Provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. This book contains essays which draw upon pictorial images to explore the varied ways in which the earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation.

The compelling story of political struggles over Antarctica and the South Atlantic. It recounts how Britain and Argentina have sought to invest these thinly populated spaces - mostly rock and water - with cultural and national importance, so that territorial disputes simply refuse to fade away.

Globalization is often perceived as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy. This book argues that globalisation is far more complex, a fact reflected in a range of key problems, centred on issues of equality and identity, facing peoples and governments around the world.

This text aims to remove much of the confusion surrounding the issue of water in the Middle East. It argues that it is at the global level that explanation is to be found on why economics operate as they do and why water policies are as they are.

Presents a survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. This work takes you on a tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, and more.

Creates a community profile which looks at Muslims as an entire faith community from a sociological and social policy perspective. This work reveals the social position of Muslims as a group compared to other faith communities in terms of educational qualifications, economic activity and housing conditions.

Water resources planners have frequently signalled an impending water crisis. The message is that the world is running out of water and that only by careful planning and the adoption of integrated water resources management can catastrophe be avoided. This title challenges these perceptions.

The Water Crisis in Yemen draws on both new field research and a very wide set of official and unofficial information sources, much of it being made available for the first time.