Unexceptionally all metropolitan areas throughout the world are surrounded by peri-urban
areas that are neither urban nor rural in the conventional sense. Peri-urban areas are …

Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late
1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political …

One of California's most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid
expansion of the wildlands–urban interface (WUI). Multiple issues associated with WUI …

Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of 'cities' as
ontological entities separate from 'nature'and on how the production of settlements is …

Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant
transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

This paper considers how shifts within the social sciences towards conceptualising spatiality
in relational terms have unfolded in rural studies in particular ways over the past decade or …

The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is the zone where human settlements are in or near
areas of fire-prone wildland vegetation. The WUI is widespread and expanding, with …

There is a sizable literature about the factors shaping park visitation and use–especially for
urban parks, including (i) geographic (eg proximity),(ii) socio-cultural (eg population …

Researchers are beginning to take notice of amenity migration processes and their impacts
in exurban areas of the US Our research explores second-home owners as contributors to …