Books in the International Library of Human Geography series

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.

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.

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.