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11. The New Regulation and Governance of Food

    Beyond the Food Crisis?

    By Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn, Samarthia Thankappan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
12. Cities, Regions and Flows

    Edited by Peter Hall, Markus Hesse

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to...

    Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
13. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

    From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

    Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
14. The Differentiated Countryside

    By Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden and, Jonathan Murdoch, Neil Ward

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers,...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
15. Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains

    Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System

    Edited by Niels Fold, Bill Pritchard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
16. Geographies of Commodity Chains

    Edited by Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
17. Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

    A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

    Edited by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
18. Private Cities

    Global and Local Perspectives

    By Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
19. Rethinking Maps

    New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory

    Edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It...

    Published June 7th 2011 by Routledge
20. Design Economies and the Changing World Economy

    Innovation, Production and Competitiveness

    By John Bryson, Grete Rusten

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Design is central to every service or good produced, sold and consumed. Manufacturing and service companies located in high cost locations increasingly find it difficult to compete with producers located in countries such as India and China. Companies in high-cost locations either have to shift...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge