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Various forms of 'new regionalism' or 'new regional geography' have emerged over the last several decades, especially in political and economic geography, but in general the region has been a concept in declining use. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of academic developments in the area of geographical research.

Spanning cultural and political ecology, the political economy of the environment, humanistic landscape interpretation, cultural studies of nature, and science and technology studies, this is a guide to environmental studies in Human Geography. It captures conceptual developments in the field for audiences within and beyond Geography.

Brings together twenty-five of the influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. This volume looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s.

The city is a fresh topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this field? This book provides a theoretical framework within which this question can be explored.

The rural has long been regarded as an important site of geographical inquiry even if our understanding of it has not always been treated as conceptually different from the urban. This book contains three sections concerned with agriculture and food, the rural, and rural governance.

Tackles the complex terrain of theory and methods, seeking to exemplify the major philosophical, social-theoretic and methodological developments - some with political and ethical implications - that have traversed human geography since the era of the 1960s when spatial science came to the fore.