Companion Encyclopedia of Geography
The Environment and Humankind
Herausgeber: Douglas, Ian; Hugget, Richard John
Companion Encyclopedia of Geography
The Environment and Humankind
Herausgeber: Douglas, Ian; Hugget, Richard John
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The "Companion Encyclopedia of Geography" provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this "Companion" also looks towards the future. The forty-five self contained chapters are bound into a unifying whole by the editors' general and section introductions and each chapter provides details of the most useful sources of further reading and research. Now available in paperback, this work is an invaluable…mehr
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Revised edition
- Seitenzahl: 1050
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2002
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 57mm
- Gewicht: 1551g
- ISBN-13: 9780415277501
- ISBN-10: 0415277507
- Artikelnr.: 21226448
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Revised edition
- Seitenzahl: 1050
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2002
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 57mm
- Gewicht: 1551g
- ISBN-13: 9780415277501
- ISBN-10: 0415277507
- Artikelnr.: 21226448
Earth 2 The ever-changing climate 3 The biosphere 4 Human evolution 5 The
geography of language 6 Religion: nature and origins 7 The modification of
the earth by humans in pre-industrial times PART II: A WORLD TRANSFORMED BY
THE GROWTH OF A GLOBAL ECONOMY Introduction 8 European settlement,
1450-1750 9 European expansion and land cover transformation 10 The origins
of the capitalist world economy 11 Industrialization and world agriculture
12 Changes in global demography 13 Origins of modern environmentalism 14
The saviour city: beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales
15 From a 'cultural' world to a 'political' one PART III: THE GLOBAL SCALE
OF HABITAT MODIFICATION Introduction 16 Unity and division in global
political geography 17 The geography of conflicts and the prospects for
peace 18 A new 'geo-economy': patterns, processes, problems 19 Third World
urbanization 20 From riches to rags: the international debt crisis 21
Monitoring, modelling and mothering the environment: the impact of science
and technology since the Second World War 22 Environmentalism on the move
PART IV: A WORLD OF QUESTIONS Introduction 23 Climatic variation and global
change 24 Ocean uses, environment and management 25 Water: confronting the
critical dilemma 26 Surface instability and human modification in
geomorphic systems 27 The tropical rain forest 28 Humanity's resources 29
Environmental hazards 30 The sustainability of sustenance: land and
agricultural production in the Third World 31 Famines and surplus in world
food production 32 The nature of Third World cities 33 Western cities and
their problems 34 Changing countrysides 35 The quality of life: human
welfare and social justice PART V: CHANGING WORLDS, CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES
Introduction 36 The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher
education 37 Achievements of spatial science 38 Geography and humanism in
the late twentieth century 39 Structural themes in geographical discourse
40 Challenging the boundaries: survival and change in a gendered World 41
Place PART VI: GEOGRAPHICAL FUTURES 42 Concern for geography: a case for
equal emphasis of the geographical traditions 43 Home and world,
cosmopolitanism and ethnicity: key concepts in contemporary human geography
44 Palaeoenvironmental narrative and scenario science 45 Geographical
futures: some personal speculations
Earth 2 The ever-changing climate 3 The biosphere 4 Human evolution 5 The
geography of language 6 Religion: nature and origins 7 The modification of
the earth by humans in pre-industrial times PART II: A WORLD TRANSFORMED BY
THE GROWTH OF A GLOBAL ECONOMY Introduction 8 European settlement,
1450-1750 9 European expansion and land cover transformation 10 The origins
of the capitalist world economy 11 Industrialization and world agriculture
12 Changes in global demography 13 Origins of modern environmentalism 14
The saviour city: beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales
15 From a 'cultural' world to a 'political' one PART III: THE GLOBAL SCALE
OF HABITAT MODIFICATION Introduction 16 Unity and division in global
political geography 17 The geography of conflicts and the prospects for
peace 18 A new 'geo-economy': patterns, processes, problems 19 Third World
urbanization 20 From riches to rags: the international debt crisis 21
Monitoring, modelling and mothering the environment: the impact of science
and technology since the Second World War 22 Environmentalism on the move
PART IV: A WORLD OF QUESTIONS Introduction 23 Climatic variation and global
change 24 Ocean uses, environment and management 25 Water: confronting the
critical dilemma 26 Surface instability and human modification in
geomorphic systems 27 The tropical rain forest 28 Humanity's resources 29
Environmental hazards 30 The sustainability of sustenance: land and
agricultural production in the Third World 31 Famines and surplus in world
food production 32 The nature of Third World cities 33 Western cities and
their problems 34 Changing countrysides 35 The quality of life: human
welfare and social justice PART V: CHANGING WORLDS, CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES
Introduction 36 The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher
education 37 Achievements of spatial science 38 Geography and humanism in
the late twentieth century 39 Structural themes in geographical discourse
40 Challenging the boundaries: survival and change in a gendered World 41
Place PART VI: GEOGRAPHICAL FUTURES 42 Concern for geography: a case for
equal emphasis of the geographical traditions 43 Home and world,
cosmopolitanism and ethnicity: key concepts in contemporary human geography
44 Palaeoenvironmental narrative and scenario science 45 Geographical
futures: some personal speculations