Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joseph trainor”
Skip side bar filters

  • Handbook of Disaster Research

    Edited by Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner, Joseph E. Trainor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the 1st Edition, including what is a disaster; morbidity and mortality associated with disasters; gender and disasters; and race, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Katrina

    Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

    by John Barnshaw, Christine Bevc, George E. Capowich, Lee Clarke, Shyamal K. Das, Katharine M. Donato, Russell R. Dynes, Lisa A. Eargle, James R. Elliott, Kelly Frailing, Elizabeth Fussell, Timothy J. Haney, Dee Wood Harper, Emily Holcombe, Anna M. Kleiner, Marcus M. Kondkar, Nancy G. Kutner, Kris Macomber, DeMond Shondell Miller, JoLynn P. Montgomery, Keith Nicholls, Dave Overfelt, J Steven Picou, Jason David Rivera, Havidán Rodríguez, Sarah E. Rusche, Audrey Singer, Kathleen Tierney, Dana Thomas, Joseph Trainor, Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Ashraf Esmail, Carl L. Bankston III, John J. Green, Dr. Delmar Wright ...
    The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Intercultural City

    Planning for Diversity Advantage

    by Charles Landry, Phil Wood ...
    In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Practical Approach to Planning Law

    by Victor Moore, Michael Purdue ...
    Series series A Practical Approach
    Despite repeated attempts in recent years to simplify the planning system, planning law has continued to be so complex that practitioners and students alike have found it difficult to disentangle the issues and principles involved. The twelfth edition of this popular and accessible book aims to remove the mystery which planning law has for so many people. A Practical Approach to Planning Law ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Managing Population Decline in Europe's Urban and Rural Areas

    by Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective. In addition, the book critically reviews relevant notions from geography, sociology, and public ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Land Use Dynamics in a Developing Economy

    Regional Perspectives from India

    by Shahab Fazal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use into the rural-urban fringe.Here the attempt is to investigate the land transformation and the driving forces which were influencing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Household and Living Arrangement Projections

    The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China

    by Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Danan Gu, Zhenglian Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • International Handbook of Rural Demography

    Edited by László J. Kulcsár, Katherine J. Curtis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently dropped below 50 per cent of the world total, remains a vital segment of society living in proximity ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Road to Inequality

    How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities

    by Clayton Nall ...
    The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory in Spatial Demography

    Edited by Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, Stephen A. Matthews ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With a unique focus on middle-range theory, this book details the application of spatial analysis to demographic research as a way of integrating and better understanding the different transitional components of the overall demographic transition.This book first details key concepts and measures in modern spatial demography and shows how they can be applied to middle-range theory to better ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Learning Landscape Ecology

    A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

    Edited by Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which ... Read more

    $89.99 USD