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The principal book collection for Geography is located on the first floor of the Science Library.
Explore is UCL's library catalogue. This is the principal tool to find books, journals and other materials (either in print or in electronic format) held in UCL libraries. On the catalogue, you will find details such as: library site, collection and shelfmark, when you are looking for print resources. In order to access e-books via Explore, you will always need your UCL user ID and password.
Print books are arranged on the shelves according to their shelfmark. For example:
GEOGRAPHY H 72 MOR for a book on the human impact on the environment
GEOGRAPHY E 45 CAM for a book on wetlands
Water resource management involves planning, developing, and distributing water resources—a task growing harder with population growth, urbanization, and climate change. This book offers innovative solutions for conserving water and protecting quality. The second edition includes updated data, trends, visuals, and case studies, presenting an eco-friendly view of current and future water use.
In this groundbreaking book, environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores how climate change fuels global conflict. From drought-driven ISIS recruitment in Iraq to piracy in Bangladesh, he draws on a decade of reporting across dozens of countries to reveal the unexpected links between climate and unrest.
The Climate City equips finance, technology, and consulting professionals with strategies to improve urban life under climate change. It offers cutting-edge approaches for building resilient cities, linking finance and technology to policy and innovation. This practical guide outlines a global framework for mitigation, adaptation, and planning a low-carbon future.
Circular Economy: Navigating the Water-Food Nexus for Sustainable Futures explores the interdependence of food and water systems within a circular economy framework aimed at eliminating waste and maximizing resource use. It examines policy and governance needs, offers best practices, and forecasts trends to guide the transition toward a sustainable, circular water-food future.
This book explores InSAR theory and applications for measuring surface deformation. Advances in satellite technology have scaled the method from analyzing tens of SAR images to processing thousands using diverse computing resources. It is designed for students and researchers in geophysics, natural hazards, space geodesy, and remote sensing.
This book introduces remote sensing—monitoring Earth from airborne and satellite platforms—and its rapid evolution. Advances in computing now enable processing massive datasets, making remote sensing essential across disciplines from geophysics to meteorology. Structured chapters cover core principles, recent developments, and extensive references.
Emily Hammer introduces a new framework for studying variability in past pastoral practices, integrating ethnography with innovative archaeological and scientific methods to analyze herding, mobility, and social complexity. Her approach challenges evolutionary classifications and highlights the role of diverse non-agricultural, mobile groups in shaping complex societies and environments.
Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, 2nd ed., provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation.
A timely guide to the growing and fast-changing body of sustainability law in mining and energy, this book navigates the increasingly complex picture as the world struggles with the energy transition and climate change.
Through a case study of Wayisso in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, this book shows how modernization has reshaped rural livelihoods, aspirations, and mobility. Combining mobility transition theory with insights on changing capabilities, it offers a fresh perspective on migration’s root causes and calls for rethinking rural development and migration policies.
Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction by Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke shows how the discipline helps us understand the modern world. It examines power systems and explores seven defining spaces—the colony, pipeline, border, high rise, workplace, conservation area, and outer space—while critically assessing the field’s history and ongoing relevance.
Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage: whether it is the overfishing of bluefin tuna across the Atlantic, the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on the East Coast of America. Essential and revelatory, the book propels us to rethink our relationship with nature and reveals that saving our oceans is easier than we think.
Prisoners of Geography is the book people need to understand what's happening in the news today, from China's ambitions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. Bestselling author and geopolitics expert Tim Marshall looks at the past, present and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determines world history - because if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.
This collection examines environmental activism across contexts—from Indigenous women’s movements in Brazil and India to energy protests in South Korea and Standing Rock—while exploring digital spaces. It reflects on how intersectional activism and mediated communication challenge systems driving ecological degradation and injustice.
This handbook offers a comprehensive look at challenges and opportunities in sustainable community-based tourism (CBT). It explores innovative planning and management approaches, current trends, and future research directions. Edited by Tsung Hung Lee and Fen-Huah Jan, it brings together global experts to examine cultural heritage, resident well-being, resource conservation, and ecotourism.
Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management, 2nd ed., provides a comprehensive exploration of geoheritage, beginning with an introduction to geodiversity and progressing to the characterisation of in situ and ex situ geoheritage, its protection and sustainable use.
Arranged chronologically, and with some 140 newly photographed maps and ephemera from the British Library’s cartographic holdings, A History of Railways in 100 Maps explores both the progress of the railways and railway infrastructure across the globe, and through mountains, deserts, cities and even under oceans. The volume also charts the development of how railways were surveyed and presented in two- and three-dimensional forms for the purposes of engineering and construction, politics, economics and indeed war.
This illustrated volume uncovers Japan’s little-known archive of Buddhist world maps from the 14th–19th centuries, analyzing their creation, reproduction, and reception. D. Max Moerman offers an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism, revealing how cartographic and cosmological visions shaped its geographic imagination.
Narratives like those portraying development workers as heroes and local populations as victims needing to be saved from their own unsustainable practices have led to problematic policies and interventions. Based on fieldwork across four continents, this Element critically analyzes such metanarratives.
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Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival, primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture and deforestation
On UCL Explore, you can look at the results of your search to quickly discover if a book is available in print or/and online: View Online means that the book is available electronically, while Available means that the book is available in print. In some cases a book is available both in print and online.
Consult introductory material or general reference works for a broad overview of your issue or topic, and to identify key concepts, theories and researchers in the field. Introductory material may include:
Find introductory material in Explore by combining a topic keyword with one of the material type descriptors above, e.g. Handbook AND Geography.
These are some examples of introductory material available electronically for Geography. The list is not extensive, and you should perform your own searches on Explore to see what else is available in print in UCL Libraries.
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