Human Geography of the UK - An Introduction

This new key textbook for introductory courses in human geography provides first and second-year undergraduates with a comprehensive thematic approach to the changing human geography of the UK at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Covering local, regional, national, European and global issues, it also explores in some detail topics which are part of the lived experience of undergraduates themselves, such as crime, unemployment, social exclusion and AIDS.

Sommario

1: The Human Geography of the UK; 1: Approaches to the Human Geography of the UK; 2: The UK in a Global Context; 3: Processes of Socioeconomic Change; 4: An Era of Exclusion; 5: Cultural Change; 6: Political Change; 2: The UK in a Period of Change; 7: The UK Population; 8: Work; 9: Consumption and Leisure; 10: Health And Well-Being; 11: Culture and Identity; 12: Policy Responses; 3: The UK; 13: Constitutional and Political Change; 14: Geographical Divisions; 15: The Haves and The Have-Nots; 16: The Geography of Polarisation and Division

Info autore

Eleonore Kofman, David Graham, Irene Hardill

Riassunto

This new key textbook for introductory courses in human geography provides first and second-year undergraduates with a comprehensive thematic approach to the changing human geography of the UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Graham, Irene Hardill, Irene (Northumbria University Hardill, Hardill Irene, Eleonore Kofman, Kofman Eleonore
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2001
• EAN: 9780415214261
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21426-1
• Pagine: 304
• Peso: 570 g
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography