Dr Paul Balchin & Paul Balchin 
Housing: The Essential Foundations [PDF ebook] 

The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of ye …

In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the ”consumption” of a local heritage, …

Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bog …

At a time when there is major reorientation of rural economies in Europe, and the emergence of new possibilities both for governance and for conflict, this book brings together a group of leading aca …

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country”s 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict …

The world”s forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and with disastrous consequences. Demand for wood and paper products ranks high amongst the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, …

Society and Exploitation Through Nature offers an integrated approach to the environment, linking the philosophical, social and physical sciences to environmental problems and issues. The text covers …

Firmly places impact assessment in the broader context of environmental planning, developing a much-needed integrative approach. The topics covered include: decision making and dispute resolution; th …

While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are few introductory texts that outline the social theory that informs human geographical approaches to the interactions between ecolog …

We are now living through a period of knowledge capitalism in which, as Castells put it, ”the action of knowledge upon knowledge is the main source of productivity.” In the face of such transformat …