Research Handbooks in Geography series

Series editor: Susan J. Smith, Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography and The Mistress of Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK

This important new Research Handbook series will offer high quality, original reference works that cover a range of subjects within the evolving and dynamic field of geography, emphasising in particular the critical edge and transformative role of human geography.

Under the general editorship of Susan J. Smith, these Research Handbooks will be edited by leading scholars in their respective fields. Comprising specially commissioned contributions from distinguished academics, the Research Handbooks offer a wide-ranging examination of current issues. Each contains a unique blend of innovative thinking, substantive analysis and balanced synthesis of contemporary research.