Labour has for a long time been an important concept in economic geography, but more
often as a cost that influences investment decisions than as a social force in its own right …

How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the
notion's potential for challenging political imagination? Placing the Anthropocene offers one …

This paper considers the limits and potential of 'urban metabolism'to conceptualize city
processes. Three 'ecologies' of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a …

This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental
governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as …

* Email: blomley@ sfu. ca proves to be compatible with dominant tendencies'(Brand and
Wissen, 2005: 15). Critical geography has also 'made it', becoming deeply entrenched within …

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key …

In the past two decades human geographers have intensely theorized scale, and extended
claims that it is a foundational element of geographic theory. Yet attendant with this move …

Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Amongst other things, it allows us to declare one event or process a national one and …

Recapturing Democracy is a short yet synoptic introduction to urban democracy in our era of
political neoliberalism and economic globalization. Combining an original argument with a …

Perhaps more visibly than any other category, scale has entered the geographical discourse
since the 1980s and geographers have been ready to add it to such key words as space …