Best Geography Books
Best Free Geography Books of 2024
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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals Book Reviews
Patricia Solis & Marcela ZeballosThis collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multinational collaboration. Authors...
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Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World Book Reviews
Kenny LynchSustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twentyfirst century. RuralUrban Interaction in the Developi...
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Resilient Urban Futures Book Reviews
Zoé A. Hamstead, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook & Tischa A. Muñoz-EricksonThis open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wag...
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The Data Shake Book Reviews
Grazia Concilio, Paola Pucci, Lieven Raes & Geert MareelsThis open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policyde...
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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World Book Reviews
Sarah RadcliffeUsing recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Prov...
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Neighbourhoods in Transition Book Reviews
Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise & Sophie LufkinThis open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhood...
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Housing Estates in Europe Book Reviews
Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru & Maarten van HamThis open access book explores the formation and sociospatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups origina...
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Economic Geography Book Reviews
Meg BasilioEconomic geography is a branch of human geography. The study focuses on both the world’s physical resources as well as human resources. Economic geography studies the distribution ...
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Note Taking Book Reviews
Marquis K. WallsScientific Geography that could be used for research purposes
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Postsocialist Shrinking Cities Book Reviews
Chung-Tong Wu, Maria Gunko, Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz & Kai ZhouThis book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the socalled Global East, a liminal space between North and South. ...
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Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa Book Reviews
Katherine V. Gough & Thilde LangevangYoung people in subSaharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un and underemployment. Job creation through entr...
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Governance of Arctic Shipping Book Reviews
Aldo Chircop, Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta & Ronald PelotThis open access book is a result of the Dalhousieled research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Cana...
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Deltas in the Anthropocene Book Reviews
Robert J. Nicholls, W. Neil Adger, Craig W. Hutton & Susan E. HansonThe Anthropocene is the humandominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book exam...
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Water Teachings Book Reviews
Bakker, KarenWater Teachings is an edited collection of writings by Indigenous knowledge holders, community members, and scholars. The book explores traditional teachings through ten topics, in...
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Renewable Economies in the Arctic Book Reviews
David C. Natcher & Timo KoivurovaThis book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Ar...
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Food Security in the High North Book Reviews
Kamrul Hossain, Lena Maria Nilsson & Thora Martina HerrmannThis book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidis...
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Thematic Maps Book Reviews
Ryan ReedA brief textbook that provides background information on a number of maps, with a specific focus on what thematic maps are. This book was created to help students meet the fifth “G...
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Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Book Reviews
Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow & Claudia BaranzelliThis open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, ...
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Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries Book Reviews
Daniel Baldwin Hess & Tiit TammaruThis open access book focuses on the formation and later sociospatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countriesEstonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores ...
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Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality Book Reviews
Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Rūta Ubarevičienė & Heleen JanssenThis open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socioeconomic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North ...
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Innovation Capacity and the City Book Reviews
Grazia Concilio & Ilaria TosoniThis book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 
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Participatory Research and Planning in Practice Book Reviews
Janez Nared & David BoleThis open access book provides indepth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and me...
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Territorio de la baja California Book Reviews
Léon DiguetTerritorio de la Baja California: Resena Geografica y Estadistica, escrito por Léon Diguet, publicado por Paris ; Mexico : La Vda de C. Bouret, 1912, es un libro sobre territorio ...
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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games Book Reviews
Eva Kassens NoorThis open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares t...
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The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Book Reviews
Philippus Wester, Arabinda Mishra, Aditi Mukherji & Arun Bhakta ShresthaThis open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and envir...
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance Book Reviews
Monica Tennberg, Else Grete Broderstad & Hans-Kristian HernesThis book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from No...
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Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas Book Reviews
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan E. Hanson, Md. Munsur Rahman & Mashfiqus SalehinThis book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policyorientated analysis for the fu...
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Volcanoes Book Reviews
Allyson BrinstonThis book teaches children aged 38 about volcanoes and volcanic eruptions.
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Greening the Greyfields Book Reviews
Peter W. Newton, Peter W.G. Newman, Stephen Glackin & Giles ThomsonThis open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration o...
Best Paid Geography Books of 2024
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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals Book Reviews
Patricia Solis & Marcela ZeballosThis collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multinational collaboration. Authors...
-
Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World Book Reviews
Kenny LynchSustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twentyfirst century. RuralUrban Interaction in the Developi...
-
Resilient Urban Futures Book Reviews
Zoé A. Hamstead, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook & Tischa A. Muñoz-EricksonThis open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wag...
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The Data Shake Book Reviews
Grazia Concilio, Paola Pucci, Lieven Raes & Geert MareelsThis open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policyde...
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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World Book Reviews
Sarah RadcliffeUsing recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Prov...
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Neighbourhoods in Transition Book Reviews
Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise & Sophie LufkinThis open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhood...
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Housing Estates in Europe Book Reviews
Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru & Maarten van HamThis open access book explores the formation and sociospatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups origina...
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Economic Geography Book Reviews
Meg BasilioEconomic geography is a branch of human geography. The study focuses on both the world’s physical resources as well as human resources. Economic geography studies the distribution ...
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Note Taking Book Reviews
Marquis K. WallsScientific Geography that could be used for research purposes
-
Postsocialist Shrinking Cities Book Reviews
Chung-Tong Wu, Maria Gunko, Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz & Kai ZhouThis book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the socalled Global East, a liminal space between North and South. ...
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Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa Book Reviews
Katherine V. Gough & Thilde LangevangYoung people in subSaharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un and underemployment. Job creation through entr...
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Governance of Arctic Shipping Book Reviews
Aldo Chircop, Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta & Ronald PelotThis open access book is a result of the Dalhousieled research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Cana...
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Deltas in the Anthropocene Book Reviews
Robert J. Nicholls, W. Neil Adger, Craig W. Hutton & Susan E. HansonThe Anthropocene is the humandominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book exam...
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Water Teachings Book Reviews
Bakker, KarenWater Teachings is an edited collection of writings by Indigenous knowledge holders, community members, and scholars. The book explores traditional teachings through ten topics, in...
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Renewable Economies in the Arctic Book Reviews
David C. Natcher & Timo KoivurovaThis book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Ar...
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Food Security in the High North Book Reviews
Kamrul Hossain, Lena Maria Nilsson & Thora Martina HerrmannThis book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidis...
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Thematic Maps Book Reviews
Ryan ReedA brief textbook that provides background information on a number of maps, with a specific focus on what thematic maps are. This book was created to help students meet the fifth “G...
-
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Book Reviews
Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow & Claudia BaranzelliThis open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, ...
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Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries Book Reviews
Daniel Baldwin Hess & Tiit TammaruThis open access book focuses on the formation and later sociospatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countriesEstonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores ...
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Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality Book Reviews
Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Rūta Ubarevičienė & Heleen JanssenThis open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socioeconomic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North ...
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Innovation Capacity and the City Book Reviews
Grazia Concilio & Ilaria TosoniThis book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 
-
Participatory Research and Planning in Practice Book Reviews
Janez Nared & David BoleThis open access book provides indepth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and me...
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Territorio de la baja California Book Reviews
Léon DiguetTerritorio de la Baja California: Resena Geografica y Estadistica, escrito por Léon Diguet, publicado por Paris ; Mexico : La Vda de C. Bouret, 1912, es un libro sobre territorio ...
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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games Book Reviews
Eva Kassens NoorThis open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares t...
-
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Book Reviews
Philippus Wester, Arabinda Mishra, Aditi Mukherji & Arun Bhakta ShresthaThis open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and envir...
-
Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance Book Reviews
Monica Tennberg, Else Grete Broderstad & Hans-Kristian HernesThis book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from No...
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Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas Book Reviews
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan E. Hanson, Md. Munsur Rahman & Mashfiqus SalehinThis book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policyorientated analysis for the fu...
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Volcanoes Book Reviews
Allyson BrinstonThis book teaches children aged 38 about volcanoes and volcanic eruptions.
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Greening the Greyfields Book Reviews
Peter W. Newton, Peter W.G. Newman, Stephen Glackin & Giles ThomsonThis open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration o...
