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Title Encyclopedia of human geography / editor in chief Audrey Kobayashi.

Publication Info. Amterdam : Oxford ; Cambridge (Mass.) : Elsevier, 2020.
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2021.

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Edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (810 entries) : 1243 images ; digital files.
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Contents The second edition contains approximately 800 articles which are structured around the following themes: Cultural: Topics include: cultural geography; cultural theory; cultural studies; postcolonial geographies; indigenous geographies; education; ethnicity; geography and religion; geography and the humanities; geography and the media (film, print, creative industries); popular culture; more-than-human representations Economic: Topics include: economic development; economic theories; spatial theories; urban economic geography; economic inequalities; housing; industrial geography; geographies of labor and job provision; transportation and communication; technology; world trade and trade policies; modernization and global economies; neoliberalism Historical: Topics include: Landscape development; Historical representations/re-presentations/more-than-representations; Histories of the discipline; Historical geographies of political/conflict/border-making events; Historical GIS; Institutional historical geographies; Political economies; Colonialism and imperialism Health: Topics include: health geography; medical geography; geographies of care; emotional geographies/geographies of mental health; therapeutic places; health care systems and institutions; healthcare policies; critical disability studies; epidemics and pandemics; international health aid; health and development; health and the built environment Methods: Topics include: Cartography; methodology/paradigms; digital technologies; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; ethics and methods; surveys; GIS; participatory research Nature/Society: Topics include: theories of nature; human/society and nature relations; climate change; natural disasters; energy issues; rural geographies; recreational geographies; non-human geographies; Anthropocene; environmental racism Political/Philosophy: Topics include: Geopolitics; human rights; neoliberalism; political theory; international security; borders and boundaries; electoral geographies; public policy; governance; peace and conflict; politics of religion; political migration; international relations; international conventions; electoral geography Population: Topics include: population growth and distribution; demographic change; digital technologies for population representation; migration; refugees; population and development; population and warfare/religion/governance; geographies of aging; globalization; racialization; gender Social: Topics include: social relations; difference; multiculturalism; race and racism; feminist geographies; radical geographies; relevance and social issues; urban social geography; social theories; housing and social services Urban: Topics include: What is urban?; urban historical geography; urban ecology; crime and policing; residential development, including segregation; urban models
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Summary International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second edition embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors - in other words, the things that make people and places different."
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Human geography -- Encyclopedias.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kobayashi, Audrey, editor
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 0081022956 9780081022955 1 online resource : illustrations.
ISBN 9780081022962 ebook
9780081022955 hardback
9781787858732 electronic version

 
    
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