Geoff DeVerteuil - Böcker

Key Concepts in Social Geography provides students with the core concepts that form contemporary research and ideas within the social geography discipline. Written in a clear and transparent style, the book includes:

• an introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field

• over 20 key concept entries that provide comprehensive definitions, explanations and evolutions of the subject

• excellent pedagogy to enhance students' understanding including a glossary, figures, diagrams, and further reading.

Addressing concepts from inequality to segregation and the lifecourse to emotion, the book is panoramic in its coverage and is the ideal student companion for individuals studying geography and sociology.

Through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the health of urban populations. Despite the growing interest in global urban health, there are limited resources available that provide an extensive and advanced exploration into the health of urban populations in a transnational context. This volume offers a high-quality and comprehensive examination of global urban health issues by leading urban health scholars from around the world. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban health, with chapter contributions emphasizing disciplines in the social sciences, construction sciences and medical sciences. The co-editors of the collection come from a number of different disciplinary backgrounds that have been at the forefront of urban health research, including public health, epidemiology, geography, city planning and urban design. The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It will also be appropriate as a text for university class adoption in upper-division under-graduate courses and above. The proposed volume is extensive and offers enough breadth and depth to enable it to be used for courses emphasizing a U.S., or wider Western perspective, as well as courses on urban health emphasizing a global context.