The Routledge Handbook of Events

The Routledge Handbook of Events
Author: Stephen J. Page
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136637036

It is the first major study to examine what events is as a discipline in the twenty-first century, its significance in contemporary society and growth as a mainstream subject area. The book is divided in to five inter-related sections. Section one evaluates the evolution of events as a discipline and defines what Events Studies is. Section two critically reviews the relationship between events and other disciplines such as tourism and sport. Section three focuses on the management of events, section four evaluates the impacts of events from varying political, social and environmental perspectives and section five examines the future direction of growth in event-related education and research.

A Companion to Environmental Geography

A Companion to Environmental Geography
Author: Noel Castree
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119250625

A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography