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

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

Title remainder

the environment and humankind

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson

Instantiates

• Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind

Publication

• London | New York, Routledge, 1996
• London | New York, Routledge, ©2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

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

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34284921

Dimensions

25 cm

Extent

xxviii, 1021 pages

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9780415074179

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(hb : alk. paper)

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96006097

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, maps

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.b36006543