Books in the Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series series

Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence. He concludes with a comparison with the post-colonial urban problems of South Africa and Brazil. Includes multiple maps produced and compiled using GIS.

Using case studies and empirical analyzes, this title shows that East Asian governments have found institutionally unique ways to overcome the sustainability challenge, thus proving an important antidote to those who argue that poor countries cannot afford to clean up their environment whilst their economies remain under-developed.

From a geographical standpoint, this text challenges the established theories about native agriculture in North America. Focusing on fields, emphasis is placed on modifications to the biophysical environment. It also looks at horticulture and techniques for dealing with water surplus or shortages.

This text explores the dynamics that have accompanied the implementation of largescale Urban Development Projects (UDPs) in nine European cities within the European Union (EU).

Focusing on forests and trees, this book investigates how relations between society and nature change over time. It traces historical perceptions and woodland management practices, explores the rise of scientific forestry methods, discusses in depth the organizational culture of the Forestry Commission, and considers the claim that present-day forestry has become a postmodern phenomenon.

Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization shows how society's view of who is acceptable and who is not defines the opposition faced by many human service facilities at the local level. Homelessness and HIV/AIDS provide the focus for exploring the NIMBY syndrome, through a wide range of empirical examples and case studies.

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies.

This book examines tropical resource management in West Africa. Drawing widely on field examples, it argues that more account should be taken of ecological conditions and indigenous land-use methods in decision making about tropical management projects.

The author seeks to rebut the argument that socio-economic prosperity in cities can only be achieved by global market-led policies. He argues that urban society and policy makers have sufficient freedom to make local decisions on the development of deprived neighbourhoods.

This book is the first to bring together all that is known about the humanly-modified and cultivated landscapes of Middle America just prior to the European conquest. It assesses the agricultural and human-environment conditions existing at that time, and its implications for various contemporary themes ranging from global change to the presumed 'environment friendly' Native American.

Taking the case of Guayaquil in Ecuador this book shows, both theoretically and empirically, how access to and control over water, and, consequently, urban socio-environmental conditions are shaped by social, economic, and political power relations.

This text explores the role of culture in the urban transformation of Asian cities. Departing from the strictly economic treatment of urbanization that has tended to dominate urban geography, it demonstrates how the pervasive influence of culture has effected Asian urbanization.

Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants, and ethnic and racial segregation, are the key themes of this book. From their experiences of a wide range of cities, from Warsaw to Istanbul, Sao Paulo to New York, the authors examine what might be done to improve the lot of the citizen.

This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities within the international contexts of post-industrial postmodern society. It discusses the crucial role of cultural politics dating from the 1960s in this first detailed and comparative study of `gentrification'.

This book looks at the evolution of regional disparities in Europe in a period of profound social and economic change. It represents a thorough analysis of how local social, political, and institutional settings relate to regional economic performance and highlights the persistence of territorial disparities in Europe.

Why are firms in some regions or nations successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process? These questions constitute the issues for this book.

Gaining access to a number of penal colonies to interview prisoners, the authors show that much in the Russian prison system today is a direct inheritance from the Soviet period with the result that, despite wide-ranging the reforms since 1991, the Russian penal experience for women is still uniquely painful.

The authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin on the Galapagos for plants and animals applies today with equal force to the micro-organisms which lie behind many human diseases. A constant theme is the change in accessibility of remote islands.

The state of Oaxaca has been studied intensively and presented here is an overview of rural communities in the 20th century. The study is rooted in the colonial and post-independence period but concentrates primarily on the post-revolutionary period.

This book is a world geography of emerging diseases from antiquity to the present day. The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases. This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence.

Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book attempts to fill the gap through a theoretically informed account of Anglo American pension funds set in context with current debates about the role of government policy and the roles and responsibilities of pension funds

This book examines the long entanglement between ideas of Geopolitics and the ideology and practices of Empire tracing these matters back to the true founder of Geopolitics, a British geographer of the early-twentieth century, Halford Mackinder.

Three leading scholars in the field explain why place and provenance are assuming more importance in the food chain to producers, consumers, and regulators. They examine how these concerns influence debates on the future of food and farming, exploring the implications for three very different regions: California, Tuscany, and Wales.

The complex relationships between the state and nature remain under-theorized and relatively unexplored. Combining original research and theoretical insights The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which social scientists approach questions of socio-environmental power and offers new insights into the history of state-nature relations.

In this book the authors draw on extensive field work that took them over a five year period to a variety of Russian regions. By describing the forms of small farming they found in these regions, the authors uncover for the reader Russia's 'unknown agriculture', speculating about the role it will have in Russia's future.

This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.

Using information from the latest UK elections (including 2005) these experienced authors show how both voters and parties are affected by, and seek to influence, both national and local forces. Based on the latest information and scholarship, they analyse the difference that place makes to politics. Fully illustrated with figures and tables.

This title examines the privatisation and regulation of water supply in England and Wales, exploring the relationship between socio-economic restructuring and environmental change, and linking privatisation to changing patterns of public policy and trends in public services provision in Britain.

This book examines the operation of the EU and its institutions, providing an authoritative study of the processes surrounding the formulation, negotiation, and implementation of EU policy. Drawing on research with EU leaders, parliamentarians, and national negotiators, it offers a fascinating insight into the changing nature of the European integration project at the start of the new millennium.

Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. It addresses a geographical question: how are the spatial dynamics of epidemics influenced by military operations and the directives of war?