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1 online resource (xxviii, 1021 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Planet Earth / Cliff D. Ollier -- The ever-changing climate / Andrew Goudie -- The biosphere / Alfred G. Fischer -- Human evolution / Bernard Wood -- The geography of language / William C. Brice -- Religion : nature and origins / E. Geoffrey Parrinder -- The modification of the earth by humans in pre-industrial times / I.G. Simmons -- European settlement, 1450-1750 / Len Guelke and Jeanne Kay -- European expansion and land cover transformation / Michael Williams -- The origins of the capitalist world economy / John Langton -- Industrialization and world agriculture / Brian W. Ilbery and Ian R. Bowler -- Changes in global demography / John I. Clarke -- Origins of modern environmentalism / J.M. Powell -- The saviour city : beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales / Brian T. Robson -- From a 'cultural' world to a 'political' one / Paul Claval -- Unity and division in global political geography / Peter Taylor -- The geography of conflicts and the prospects for peace / John O'Loughlin -- A new 'geo-economy' : patterns, processes, problems / Peter Dicken -- Third World urbanization / Alan Gilbert -- From riches to rags : the international debt crisis / Stuart Corbridge -- Monitoring, modelling, and mothering the environment : the impact of science and technology since the second World War / Richard Huggett -- Environmentalism on the move / Timothy O'Riordan -- Climatic variation and global change / F. Kenneth Hare -- Ocean uses : environment and management / Alastair D. Couper -- Water : confronting the critical dilemma / Peter Crabb -- Surface instability and human modifications in geomorphic systems / Jonathan D. Phillips and William H. Renwick -- The tropical rain forest / John R. Flenly -- Humanity's resources / I.G. Simmons -- Environmental hazards / John Whittow -- The sustainability of sustenance : land and agricultural production in the Third World / William C. Clarke -- Famines and surplus in world food production / David Grigg -- The nature of Third World cities / David Drakakis-Smith -- Western cities and their problems / David T. Herbert -- Changing countrysides / Hugh Clout -- The quality of life : human welfare and social justice / David M. Smith -- The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher education / R.J. Johnston -- Achievements of spatial science / Arild Holt-Jensen -- Geography and humanism in the late twentieth century / Anne Buttimer -- Structural themes in geographical discourse / Richard Peet -- Challenging the boundaries : survival and change in a gendered world / Janice Monk -- Place / Edward Relph -- Concern for geography : a case for equal emphasis of the geographical traditions / Adetoye Faniran -- Home and world, cosmopolitanism and ethnicity : key concepts in contemporary human geography / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Paleoenvironmental narrative and scenario science / Frank Oldfield -- Geographical futures : some personal speculations / Peter Haggett |
| Summary |
Annotation The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. This Companion examines both physical and human geography, and the relationship between the two. An international team of forty-seven geographers, all recognized figures in their discipline, chart the development of humankind's diverse habitat and the social and economic activities within that habitat up to the present day, and look to the future. The work is divided into six parts: A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification * A world of questions * Changing worlds, changing geographies * Geographical futures The forty-five self-contained chapters are bound into a unifying whole by the editors' general and part introductions; each chapter provides details of the most useful sources of further reading and research, and the volume concludes with a comprehensive index. This is an invaluable resource not only for students, teachers and researchers, but also for professionals in commercial and public sector organizations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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Douglas, Ian, 1936-
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Huggett, Richard J
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Robinson, M. E. (Michael Ernest), 1940-
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0585462070 |
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9780585462073 |
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0203416821 |
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9780203416822 |
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9786610321131 |
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6610321132 |
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9780415277501 |
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0415277507 |
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