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Making European space : mobility, power and territorial identity
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ISBN: 0415291925 0415291933 1280075724 1134435797 0203401972 0203410661 9780203401972 020340839X 9780203408391 9786610075720 6610075727 9781134435791 9781134435746 1134435746 9781134435784 1134435789 9781280075728 9780415291927 9780415291934 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

Behavior and environment
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ISBN: 0444896988 9780444896988 9780080867502 0080867502 9786611754747 1281754749 Year: 1993 Publisher: Amsterdam New York North-Holland

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Active researchers in the areas of geography and psychology have contributed to this book. Both fields are capable of increasing our scientific knowledge of how human behavior is interfaced with the molar physical environment. Such knowledge is essential for the solution of many of today's most urgent environmental problems. Failure to constrain use of scarce resources, pollution due to human activities, creation of technological hazards and deteriorating urban quality due to vandalism and crime are all well known examples. The influence of psychology in geographical research has long been


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An anthropology of landscape : the extraordinary in the ordinary
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ISBN: 1911307436 9781911307464 9781911307433 9781911307488 9781911307471 1911307460 9781911307440 1911307444 1911307479 1911307487 1911307452 9781911307457 Year: 2017 Publisher: London UCL Press

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An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.

Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes
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ISBN: 0415192188 0415192196 1280231602 0203645790 1134651880 9786610231607 9780415192194 1134651872 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew's interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through

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