{"title":"Series: Key Ideas in Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Ideas in Geography\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers a profound exploration of the forces shaping our world, blending insight from various disciplines to illuminate spatial patterns and human-environment interactions. This collection invites you to consider the philosophical and practical dimensions of geography, enriching your understanding of places, landscapes, and the global connections that define contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether examining cultural geography, environmental change, or the geopolitics of regions, these works provide thoughtful perspectives that resonate across history, business, and social sciences. Engaging and accessible, the series stimulates curiosity about the complex tapestry of our planet and our place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wilderness-by-phillip-vannini-9781138830981","title":"Wilderness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilderness\u003c\/em\u003e provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it. Drawing upon key theorists, philosophers, and researchers who have contributed important knowledge to the topic, this title argues for a relational and process-based notion of the term and understands it as a keystone for the examination of issues from conservation to more-than-human relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe text is organised around themed chapters discussing the concept of wilderness and its place in the social imagination, wilderness regulation and management, access, travel and tourism, representation in media and arts, and the use of wilderness for education, exploration, play, and therapy, as well as its parcelling out in parks, reserves, or remote \"wastelands\". The book maps out the historical transformation of the idea of wilderness, highlighting its intersections with notions of nature and wildness and teasing out the implications of these links for theoretical debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt offers boxes that showcase important recent case studies ranging from the development of adventure travel and eco-tourism to the practice of trekking to the changing role of technology use in the wild. Summaries of key points, further readings, Internet-based resources, short videos, and discussion questions allow readers to grasp the importance of wilderness to wider social, cultural, political, economic, historical, and everyday processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is designed for courses and modules on the subject at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. 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