Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography (eBook, PDF)

From What to Why?
Redaktion: Roy, Andre; Trudgill, Stephen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This lively and diverse book offers guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography, and introduces the reader to its wider cultural significance. It is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444144666
• Artikelnr.: 40831932

Autorenporträt

Andre Roy

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Setting the Scene. Previous actors and current influences: trends
and fashions in physical geography
Meaning, knowledge, constructs and autobiography in physical geography.
Part II: Personal Meanings. Meaning through fieldwork
Reflective on personal motivations
Where did it happen for you? Wondering about geomorphology
Goodbye to geographical reality. Part III: Research Meanings. Constructing
biogeographies: on utopias, dystopias and heteropias
Climatology and meaning
The natural science of geomorphology
Implications for an integrated geography
What it means to be a pebble in a highly turbulent stream
Self-organisation and complexity: a new perspective on landscape dynamics
Intergrated environmental systems and ethics: a case study of river basin
management
Geomorhological knowledge and landscape knowledge in resource management.
Part IV: Futures. 'The writing's on the walls': On style, substance and
sellnig physical geography
Conclusion: contemporary meaning in physical geography.