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Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind
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- ISBN: 9780203416822 (e-book : PDF)
- ISBN: 9780415074179 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780415277501 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781134905515 (e-book: Mobi)
- ISBN: 9781134905553 (e-book: ePub)
- ISBN: 9781134905560 (e-book: PDF)
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1 online resource (xxviii, 1021 pages) : illustrations, text file, PDF - Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1996.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:janaury.21 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | chapter GENERAL INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter 1 PLANET EARTH / Cliff D. Ollier -- chapter 2 THE EVER-CHANGING CLIMATE / Andrew Goudie -- chapter 3 THE BIOSPHERE / Alfred G. Fischer -- chapter 4 HUMAN EVOLUTION / Bernard Wood -- chapter 5 THE GEOGRAPHY OF LANGUAGE / William C. Brice -- chapter 6 RELIGION -- Nature and origins / E. Geoffrey Parrinder -- chapter 7 THE MODIFICATION OF THE EARTH BY HUMANS IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL TIMES / I. G. Simmons -- chapter INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- Len Guelke -- chapter 9 EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND LAND COVER TRANSFORMATION / Michael Williams -- chapter 10 THE ORIGINS OF THE CAPITALIST WORLD ECONOMY / John Langton -- chapter 11 INDUSTRIALIZATION AND WORLD AGRICULTURE / Brian W. Ilbery -- chapter 12 CHANGES IN GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY / John I. Clarke -- chapter 13 ORIGINS OF MODERN ENVIRONMENTALISM / J. M. Powell -- chapter 14 The saviour city: beneficial effects of urbanization in England and -- Beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales / Brian T. Robson -- Paul Claval -- chapter INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter 16 UNITY AND DIVISION IN GLOBAL POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY / Peter Taylor -- chapter 17 THE GEOGRAPHY OF CONFLICTS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE / Patterns, processes, problems / Peter Dicken -- chapter 19 THIRD WORLD URBANIZATION / Alan Gilbert -- chapter 20 FROM RICHES TO RAGS -- The international debt crisis / Stuart Corbridge -- chapter 21 Monitoring, modelling and mothering the environment -- The impact of science and technology since the Second World War / Richard Huggett -- chapter 22 ENVIRONMENTALISM ON THE MOVE / chapter INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter 23 CLIMATIC VARIATION AND GLOBAL CHANGE / F. Kenneth Hare -- chapter 24 OCEAN USES, ENVIRONMENT AND MANAGEMENT / Alastair D. Couper -- chapter 25 WATER -- Confronting the critical dilemma / Peter Crabb -- chapter 26 SURFACE INSTABILITY AND HUMAN MODIFICATION IN GEOMORPHIC SYSTEMS / Jonathan D. Phillips -- chapter 27 THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST / John R. Flenley -- I. G. Simmons -- chapter 29 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS / John Whittow -- chapter 30 THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SUSTENANCE -- Land and agricultural production in the Third World / William C. Clarke -- chapter 31 FAMINES AND SURPLUS IN WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION / David Grigg -- chapter 32 THE NATURE OF THIRD WORLD CITIES / David Drakakis-Smith -- chapter 33 WESTERN CITIES AND THEIR PROBLEMS / David T. Herbert -- chapter 34 CHANGING COUNTRYSIDES / Hugh Clout -- chapter 35 THE QUALITY OF LIFE -- Human welfare and social justice / David M. Smith -- part INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter 36 THE EXPANSION AND FRAGMENTATION OF GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION / R. J. Johnston -- chapter 37 ACHIEVEMENTS OF SPATIAL SCIENCE / Arild Holt-Jensen -- chapter 38 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Anne Buttimer -- chapter 39 STRUCTURAL THEMES IN GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE / Richard Peet -- chapter 40 CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES -- Survival and change in a gendered world / Janice Monk -- chapter 41 PLACE / Edward Relph -- part INTRODUCTION / Richard Huggett -- chapter 42 CONCERN FOR GEOGRAPHY -- A case for equal emphasis of the geographical traditions / Adetoye Faniran -- chapter 43 Home and world, cosmopolitanism and ethnicity: key concepts in contemporary human geography Yi-Fu Tuan -- Key concepts in contemporary human geography -- chapter 44 PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVE AND SCENARIO SCIENCE / Frank Oldfield -- chapter 45 GEOGRAPHICAL FUTURES -- Some personal speculations / Peter Haggett. |
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| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also available in print format. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2010]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
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| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by Taylor & Francis. |
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