Geography of poverty (GOP) or poverty geography is a branch of human geography, which
studies the geographical patterns, distribution characteristics, areal types and evolution …

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this
meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social …

This book has been written for readers with a range of different interests. Students
undertaking school or university courses in geography will probably come to this book with …

Land degradation and, subsequently, desertification processes are conditioned by
biophysical factors and human impacts. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest by social …

Whilst to be comfortable is often equated with conservatism and complacency, this paper
considers the various and often complex configurations of comfort as a desirable corporeal …

Regional environmental degradation and impoverishment interact and restrict each other.
While acknowledging this relationship, little is known about the extent of their impact. By …

Place is undoubtedly relevant to health, and geography is a central character in the story of
how rich societies handle inequalities in death and disease. But the text is incomplete, its …

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social
housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of 2015 identify poverty, growth, and inequality
as three key areas of intervention towards the UN 2030 Agenda for human well-being and …