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9781405153225

Transport Geographies Mobilities, Flows and Spaces

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    9781405153225

  • ISBN10:

    1405153229

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-01-29
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Fundamentals of Transport Geographiesp. 1
Introducing Transport Geographiesp. 3
Transport and Economic Developmentp. 10
Transport and the Environmentp. 29
Transport and Social Justicep. 49
Transport Governance and Ownershipp. 62
Transport Flows and Spacesp. 81
Connected Citiesp. 83
Geographies of Rural Transportp. 102
Inter-urban and Regional Transportp. 120
Global Air Transportp. 137
International Maritime Freight Movementsp. 156
Individual Transport Patternsp. 179
Transport, Tourism and Leisurep. 196
Future Transport Geographiesp. 213
Transport Directions to the Futurep. 215
Revitalized Transport Geographiesp. 227
Referencesp. 238
Indexp. 278
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