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Transport Geographies de Knowles

Transport Geographies

Autor Knowles, Docherty, Shaw
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2008
A student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.
  • Emphasizes transport geography as a mainstream of human geography
  • An innovative, qualitative approach offering a wide theoretical and empirical base
  • A formidable collection of renowned experts in the field
  • Superbly illustrated
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405153232
ISBN-10: 1405153237
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Upper level undergraduate and postgraduates studying transport and human geography, transport studies, planning, public policy and administration, sociology, psychology, transport engineering and economics.

Notă biografică

Richard Knowles is Professor of Transport Geography at the University of Salford and a member of the Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment.

Jon Shaw is Reader in Human Geography and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Transport at the University of Plymouth.

Iain Docherty is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Glasgow and Chair of the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

Cuprins

List of figures vii
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xvii
List of abbreviations xix
Part 1 Fundamentals of transport geographies 1
1 Introducing transport geographies 3
Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty
2 Transport and economic development 10
Danny MacKinnon, Gordon Pirie and Matthias Gather
3 Transport and the environment 29
Stephen Potter and Ian Bailey
4 Transport and social justice 49
Julian Hine
5 Transport governance and ownership 62
Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty
Part 2 Transport flows and spaces 81
6 Connected cities 83
Iain Docherty, Genevieve Giuliano and Donald Houston
7 Geographies of rural transport 102
David Gray, John Farrington and Andreas Kagermeier
8 Inter-urban and regional transport 120
Clive Charlton and Tim Vowles
9 Global air transport 137
Brian Graham and Andrew R. Goetz
10 International maritime freight movements 156
Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Michael Browne
11 Individual transport patterns 179
Stephen Stradling and Jillian Anable
12 Transport, tourism and leisure 196
Derek Hall
Part 3 Future transport geographies 213
13 Transport directions to the future 215
Glenn Lyons and Becky Loo
14 Revitalized transport geographies 227
John Preston and Kevin O'Connor
References 238
Index 278

Descriere

A student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.