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Gold (Hardcover): Bloomfield Gold (Hardcover)
Bloomfield
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gold remains a highly prized and impactful resource within the global economy. From the insatiable demand for gold in the electronics that permeate our day-to-day lives to the environmental desolation driven by gold mining in the Amazon, the gold trade continues to touch the lives and livelihoods of people across the world. Bloomfield and Maconachie tell the intriguing story of the yellow metal, tracing the seismic shifts in the industry over the past few decades. They show how huge purchases of gold reserves by BRICS countries mark the shifting balance of power away from the West, and how rising affluence in India and China has led to a surging demand for gold jewellery, calling into question current approaches to make supply chains more responsible. Explaining why gold is so difficult to regulate and why it is only becoming more so, the authors suggest ways we could, collectively, make practices work better for the countless workers and communities who suffer at the producer end of the supply chain. Linking local to global, producer to consumer, and gold's extraction from the Earth to the financial centres that fuel it, this book offers a probing analysis that reveals who wins and who loses and what this means for the future of gold.

Southern England (Hardcover): Peter Friend Southern England (Hardcover)
Peter Friend
R1,955 R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Save R583 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Paperback): John Connell, John Lea Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Paperback)
John Connell, John Lea
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Managing rapid urban growth presents a significant challenge in the small independent countries of the Pacific Islands. Although they originated in colonial times, the towns and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island characteristics. This transformation has stimulated new concerns, such as the causes and effects of pollution, the need for employment for landless migrants, the need for adequate and affordable housing and the financing of expanding urban services. This book explores the diversity of the urban experience in the ten independent island states, focusing on strategies to secure long term sustainable development.

Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture (Paperback): Dominic Power, Allen J. Scott Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture (Paperback)
Dominic Power, Allen J. Scott
R1,626 Discovery Miles 16 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as the media, entertainment and artistic sectors. Gathering together a leading international, multi disciplinary team of researchers, this informative book presents cutting-edge perspectives on how these industries function, their place in the new economy and how they can be harnessed for urban and regional economic and social development.

Geographies of Women's Health - Place, Diversity and Difference (Paperback): Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck, Sara... Geographies of Women's Health - Place, Diversity and Difference (Paperback)
Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck, Sara McLafferty
R1,079 R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Save R96 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors demonstrate that women's health needs to be understood 'in place' if gains are to be made in improving women's health and health care.

Sensuous Geographies - Body, Sense and Place (Paperback): Paul Rodaway Sensuous Geographies - Body, Sense and Place (Paperback)
Paul Rodaway
R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contemporary challenge of postmodernity draws our attention to the nature of reality and the ways in which experience is constructed.
Sensuous Geographies explores our immediate sensuous experience of the world. Touch, smell, hearing and sight - the four senses chiefly relevant to geographical experience - both receive and structure information. The process is mediated by historical, cultural and technological factors.
Issues of definition are illustrated through a variety of sensuous geographies. Focusing on postmodern concerns with representation, the book brings insights from individual perceptions and cultural observations to an analysis of the senses, challenging us to reconsider the role of the sensuous as not merely the physical basis of understanding but as an integral part of the cultural definition of geographical knowledge.

The Politics of Place Naming - Naming the World (Hardcover): Giraut The Politics of Place Naming - Naming the World (Hardcover)
Giraut
R3,505 Discovery Miles 35 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them. With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.

Horse Breeds and Human Society - Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse (Hardcover): Kristen Guest, Monica Mattfeld Horse Breeds and Human Society - Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse (Hardcover)
Kristen Guest, Monica Mattfeld
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans. The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by categories of race, gender, class, region, and nation. Focusing on various horse breeds, from the Chincoteague Pony to Brazilian Crioulo and the Arabian horse, each chapter in this collection considers how human and animal identities are shaped by practices of breeding and categorizing domesticated animals. Bringing together different historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives, this book will appeal to academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, in the fields of human-animal studies, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, history, and literature.

Women, Religion, and Space in China - Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins (Hardcover): Maria... Women, Religion, and Space in China - Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins (Hardcover)
Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women's mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China. These women passionately ? often against unimaginable odds ? defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.

Political Corruption in Australia - A Very Wicked Place? (Paperback): Peter John Perry Political Corruption in Australia - A Very Wicked Place? (Paperback)
Peter John Perry
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2001: Despite considerable expansion, the scholarly literature on political corruption has remained fragmentary, often polarized, consisting either of sweeping systematic statements, or case-specific examples. Perry bridges this gap and proves the need for further such study in this most worthwhile examination of the place of political corruption in Australia. The Australian experience is paid thorough, yet concise attention and then it is related to the concept of political corruption in its various and changing forms and interpretations. Assuming no familiarity with the central intellectual issues, Perry lucidly explores them in terms of their method, practice and definition with particular reference to Australia. Primarily suitable for academics interested in politics, geography, development studies, history and sociology, this book's accessible style also makes it of interest to a general audience.

Ghana in Search of Development - The Challenge of Governance, Economic Management and Institution Building (Paperback):... Ghana in Search of Development - The Challenge of Governance, Economic Management and Institution Building (Paperback)
Dan-Bright Dzorgbo
R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish colonialism, there was a general optimism that irreversible socio-economic development was about to unfold. But by the end of the 1970s Ghana paradoxically became the first country in Twentieth Century Africa to have experienced socio-economic decline. What failed Ghana? This book seeks to answer this question. By combining sociological, economic, political and institutional perspectives, this book focuses on the interplay between state politics and socio-economic development. It provides a model, which suggests that Ghana's postcolonial development has suffered mainly as a result of the failure or inability of governing elites to develop consensual politics and a clearly specified long-term development objective that could be widely understood, accepted and have relevance for policy making. This book presents a much-needed self-assessment of the post-colonial development experience which contends that governance, economic management and institution building are basic challenges without which the search for development is likely to falter.

Strabo of Amasia - A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome (Paperback): Daniela Dueck Strabo of Amasia - A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome (Paperback)
Daniela Dueck
R1,354 Discovery Miles 13 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.

Swinging City - A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (Hardcover, New Ed): Simon Rycroft Swinging City - A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Simon Rycroft
R4,129 Discovery Miles 41 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde developments from the provinces and a range of transnational, mainly transatlantic, influences.

My Revision Notes: WJEC AS/A-level Geography (Paperback): Kevin Davis My Revision Notes: WJEC AS/A-level Geography (Paperback)
Kevin Davis
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Exam board: WJEC and WJEC Eduqas Level: AS/A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: AS: Summer 2017, A-level: Summer 2018 Target success in WJEC and WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Geography with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes every student can: - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage - Test understanding and identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and answers - Enhance exam responses using relevant examples and case studies for each topic - Improve exam technique through practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid This revision guide covers the following topics: - Changing landscapes (Coastal landscapes; Glaciated landscapes) - Changing places - Global systems (Water and carbon cycles) - Global governance (Processes and patterns of global migration; Global governance of the Earth's oceans) - Contemporary themes in geography (Tectonic hazards) It also includes exam questions for 21st century challenges. This revision guide is suitable for the following specifications: - 2016 WJEC AS/A-level Geography specification regulated by Qualifications Wales - 2016 WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Geography specification regulated by Ofqual

The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf (Hardcover): Mehran Kamrava The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf (Hardcover)
Mehran Kamrava
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf systematically address the little studied notion of a "resource curse" in relation to the Persian Gulf by examining the historical causes and genesis of the phenomenon and its consequences in a variety of areas, including human development, infrastructural growth, clientelism, state-building and institutional evolution, and societal and gender relations. The book explores how across the Arabian Peninsula, oil wealth began accruing to the state at a particular juncture in the state-building process, when traditional, largely informal patterns of shaikhly rule were relatively well established, but the formal institutional apparatuses of the state were not yet fully formed. The chapters show that oil wealth had a direct impact on subsequent developments in these two complementary areas. Contributors discuss how on one hand, the distribution of petrodollars enabled political elites to solidify existing patterns of rule through deepening clientelist practices and by establishing new, dependent clients; and how on the other, rent revenues gave state leaders the opportunity to establish and shape institutions in ways that solidified their political control. The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf will be of great interest to scholars of Middle Eastern studies, focusing on a variety of subject areas, including human development, human resources, clientelism, infrastructural growth, institutional evolution, state-building, and societal and gender relations. This book was originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Arabian Studies.

Gathered Around Jesus - An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark (Paperback): Eric C. Stewart Gathered Around Jesus - An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark (Paperback)
Eric C. Stewart
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative study makes a major contribution to the long scholarly discussion of the problematic geography of "Mark's Gospel". Using both modern spatial theory and an exhaustive review of ancient evidence, Stewart demonstrates how Mark's spatial perceptions reflect Greek, Roman and Jewish understandings of human geography. He addresses Mark's editorial and compositional control over the geographic presentation of Jesus' ministry, ultimately arguing that in Mark, Jesus offers a unique spatial practice.

Health and Poverty - Global Health Problems and Solutions (Hardcover): Gijs Walraven Health and Poverty - Global Health Problems and Solutions (Hardcover)
Gijs Walraven
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2011 British Medical Association Book Award - Health & Social Care category. There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development. Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of conditions or diseases, this book provides a highly original and accessible introduction to key issues in global health today. Especially during the past decade, global health initiatives have become a prominent part of the international aid picture, bringing new resources, political commitment, and more attention for international health issues in the media. The author provides examples of diseases and problems related to health that disproportionally impact the poor, and gives their experiences 'a human face' through individual case studies. A specific case study of a health problem, such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV or health financing, introduces each chapter and is followed by a historical review of the problem, why it is still now a problem for poor people or poor countries, and what can be done about it. These will inspire the reader to become more engaged with international health and development.

Loving Orphaned Space - The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth (Paperback): Mrill Ingram Loving Orphaned Space - The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth (Paperback)
Mrill Ingram
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces-from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways-are created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space, Mrill Ingram provides a call to action to claim and to cherish these neglected spaces and make them a source of inspiration through art and/or remuneration. Ingram advocates not only for "urban greening" and "green planning," but also for "radical caring." These efforts create awareness and understanding of ecological connectivity and environmental justice issues-from the expropriation of land from tribal nations, to how race and class issues contribute to creating orphaned space. Case studies feature artists, scientists, and community collaborations in Chicago, New York, and Fargo, ND, where grounded and practical work of a fundamentally feminist nature challenges us to build networks of connection and care. The work of environmental artists who venture into and transform these disconnected sites of infrastructure allow us to rethink how to manage the enormous amount of existing overlooked and abused space. Loving Orphaned Space provides new ways humans can negotiate being better citizens of Earth.

Landscape, Race and Memory - Material Ecologies of Citizenship (Hardcover, New Ed): Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly Landscape, Race and Memory - Material Ecologies of Citizenship (Hardcover, New Ed)
Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Whilst the relationships between the political value of landscape and national memory have previously been written through, there has been little mention of postcolonial, 'diasporic' racialized citizens. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. It uses memory to examine how postcolonial citizenship in Britain is experienced - through remembered citizenships of 'other' geographies abroad. By reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, the book reveals social-historical narratives about migration, citizenship and belonging. New spaces of memory are presented as mobile and as politically charged with meaning as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book offers a refiguring of race memory as being critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on memory, race and landscape.

Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life (Hardcover, New): Philip Pearce, Sebastian Filep, Glenn Ross Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life (Hardcover, New)
Philip Pearce, Sebastian Filep, Glenn Ross
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tourism is arguably one of the largest self-initiated commercial interventions to create well-being and happiness on the entire planet. Yet there is a lack of specific attention to the ways in which we can better understand and evaluate the relationship between well-being and travel. The recent surge of scholarly work in positive psychology concerned with human well-being and flourishing represents a contemporary force with the potential to embellish and augment much current tourism study. This book maps out the field and then draws links between tourists, tourism and positive psychology. It discusses topics such as the issue of excess materialism and its fragile relationship with well-being, the value of positive psychology to lifestyle businesses, and the insights of the research field to spa and wellness tourism. This volume will interest those who study and practise tourism as well as scholars and graduate students in a range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, business and leisure.

Influenza and Public Health - Learning from Past Pandemics (Hardcover): Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn Influenza and Public Health - Learning from Past Pandemics (Hardcover)
Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn
R3,930 Discovery Miles 39 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly and adequately to each outbreak becomes imperative on the part of governments and global public health organizations, but the difficulties of doing so are legion. One tool for pandemic planning is analysis of responses to past pandemics that provide insight into productive ways forward. This book investigates past influenza pandemics in light of today's, so as to afford critical insights into possible transmission patterns, experiences, mistakes, and interventions. It explores several pandemics over the past century, from the infamous 1918 Spanish Influenza, the avian flu epidemic of 2003, and the novel H1N1 pandemic of 2009, to lesser-known outbreaks such as the 1889-90 influenza pandemic and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968. Contributors to the volume examine cases from a wide range of disciplines, including history, sociology, epidemiology, virology, geography, and public health, identifying patterns that cut across pandemics in order to guide contemporary responses to infectious outbreaks.

Tourism and Change in Polar Regions - Climate, Environments and Experiences (Hardcover, New): C. Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen Tourism and Change in Polar Regions - Climate, Environments and Experiences (Hardcover, New)
C. Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen
R4,226 Discovery Miles 42 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world's polar regions are attracting more interest than ever before. Once regarded as barren, inhospitable places where only explorers go, the north and south polar regions have been transformed into high profile tourism destinations, increasingly visited by cruise ships as well as becoming accessible with direct flights. Tourism is seen as one of the few economic opportunities in these regions but at the same time the polar regions are being opened up to tourism development they are being affected by a number of new factors that are interconnected to travel and tourism. Climate change, landscape and species loss, increasing interest in energy resources and minerals, social changes in indigenous societies, and a new polar geopolitics all bring into question the sustainability of polar regions and the place of tourism within them.

This timely volume provides a contemporary account of tourism and its impacts in polar regions. It explores the development and prospects of polar tourism, as well as tourism's impacts and associated change at high latitudes from environmental, economic, social and political perspectives. It draws on cutting edge research from both the Arctic and Antarctic to provide a comparative review and illustrate the real life issues arising from tourism's role in these regions. Integrating theory and practice the book fully evaluates varying perspectives on polar tourism and proposes actions that could be taken by local and global management to achieve a sustainable future for polar regions and development of tourism.

This complete and current account of polar tourism issues is written by an international team of leading researchers in this area and will have global appeal to higher level students, researchers, academics in Tourism, Environmental Studies, Arctic/Polar Studies and conservation enthusiasts alike.

Contemporary Co-housing in Europe - Towards Sustainable Cities? (Hardcover): Pernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Hakan... Contemporary Co-housing in Europe - Towards Sustainable Cities? (Hardcover)
Pernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Hakan Thoern, Cathrin Wasshede
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.

Ecoregionalism - Analyzing Regional Environmental Agreements and Processes (Hardcover): Jon Marco Church Ecoregionalism - Analyzing Regional Environmental Agreements and Processes (Hardcover)
Jon Marco Church
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ecoregions are defined on natural resource boundaries rather than political criteria. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and its evolution. Several disciplines are mobilized to develop a model of ecoregional processes: ecology, geography, economics, and political science. The distinction between the idea of environmental region (ecoregion) and the process of clustering around environmental regions (ecoregionalization) is presented. There are approximately eighty international treaties about transboundary rivers, seas, mountains, and other ecoregions. However, scholars and practitioners tend to have confused ideas about regional environmental processes. An in-depth comparison of a regional environmental agreement and of a regional integration process in mountain areas in Western Europe and South America is therefore provided, based on the model of ecoregional processes developed in the first part of the book. This allows highlighting major differences, as well as similarities and potential synergies.The cases of the Amu Darya river basin and the Caspian Sea in Central Asia are also examined, as are examples such as the Baltic Sea and North American Great Lakes. These show whether the conclusions reached about ecoregionalism in mountain areas are applicable also to other contexts. The author argues how a better understanding of ecoregionalism contributes to the strengthening of existing regional environmental arrangements, as well as to the greening of ongoing regional integration processes.

Geographies of Obesity - Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic (Hardcover, New Ed): Karen Witten Geographies of Obesity - Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic (Hardcover, New Ed)
Karen Witten; Edited by Jamie Pearce
R4,227 Discovery Miles 42 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. By the year 2000, 65% of the United States population were overweight, 30% of these obese. Whilst medical treatment has tended to focus on individual habits of diet and exercise, this approach does little to account for globally increasing levels of obesity, and the external, environmental factors that may be responsible. This in-depth study assembles the evidence for a geographical explanation of current obesity trends, and is the first work to examine the ways in which environment and living conditions promote an imbalance of energy intake over energy expenditure. The book calls upon the expertise of geographers, nutritionists, epidemiologists, sociologists and public health researchers, resulting in a broad, multidisciplinary analysis of this important health issue. Cover graphic designed by Georgia Witten-Sage.

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