Global Change and Challenge (eBook, ePUB)

Geography for the 1990s
Redaktion: Bennett, Robert; Estall, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the crucial issues facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134989348
• Artikelnr.: 38245031

Autorenporträt

Robert Bennett is Professor of Geography at the LSE, having previously held positions at Cambridge University and UCL. His recent publications include Decentralisation, Local Governments and Markets (Editor, Clarendon Press, 1990) and Local Economic Development (Bellhaven, 1991)., Robert Estall is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the LSE, from where he graduated in 1955. He has had three extended stays in the United States as Visiting Professor or Research Fellow, but his academic career has centred on the LSE. His major publications include Industrial Activity and Economic Geography (Hutchinson, 1980), New England: A Study in Industrial Adjustment (Bell, 1966) and A Modern Geography of the United States (Pelican, 1976).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Challenge and Change Robert Bennett and Robert Estall Chapter
1: Resources and the Environment; Scarcity and Sustainability Judith Rees
Chapter 2: Environmental Hazards David K.C. Jones Chapter 3.
Desertification and its Management Helen Scoging Chapter 4: Global Economic
Change F.E. Ian Hamilton Chapter 5.: National Perspectives on Global
Economic Change Robert Bennett Chapter 6. New Roles for Old Regions Robert
Estall Chapter 7: Case Studies of Economic Change in Advanced Regions
Robert Estall and Robert Bennett Chapter 8: Development and the Third World
Sylvia Chant Chapter 9: National Perspectives on Third World Development
Sylvia Chant Chapter 10: Drawing the Line Between Town and Country Michael
Hebbert Chapter 11: Managing Urban Change: The Case of the British Inner
City Derek D. Diamond Chapter 12: The Challenge of Information Technology
Christopher Board