Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind / edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett and Mike Robinson.

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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1996, 2002Description: xxviii, 1021 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780815364900 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

910 COM 23 014167

Contents:

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.

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.

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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