Companion Encyclopedia of Geography (eBook, PDF)

The Environment and Humankind
Redaktion: Douglas, Ian; Robinson, Mike; Hugget, Richard John; Douglas, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

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 asks what lies in the future:
* A differentiated world
* A world transformed by the growth of a global economy
* The global scale of habitat modification
* A world of questions
* Changing worlds, changing geographies
* Geographical futures.
The forty-five self contained chapters are bound into a unifying whole by the editors' general and part introductions; each chapter provides details of the most useful sources of further reading and research, and the volume is concluded with a comprehensive index.
This is an invaluable resource not only for students, teachers and researchers in the academic domain but also professionals in interested commercial and public-sector organisations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 1056
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134905560
• Artikelnr.: 42976573

Autorenporträt

IAN DOUGLAS is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Manchester, England. He gained his BA and BLitt at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and his PhD at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. From 1966 to 1971 he was a lecturer in Geography at the University of Hull, and from 1971 to 1978 he was Professor of Geography at the University of New England, Australia. RICHARD J. HUGGETT is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester, England. He studied geography at University College London, both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. After a brief spell as a geography teacher at the Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, he moved to his current post. His research interests include catastrophism, neodiluvialism, geoecology, mathematical modelling in the environmental and physical geographical sciences, and the history of ideas in the environmental and physical geographical sciences. MIKE ROBINSON has been a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester, England, since 1970. He gained his BA from the University of Leicester in 1963 and his PhD from the Australian National University in 1967. He has been at the University of Manchester since 1967: to 1968 as a Demonstrator in Geography, from 1968 to 1970 as an Assistant Lecturer, and from 1970 as a Lecturer. From 1985 to 1987 he held a visiting appointment as a part-time Lecturer in Geography at De La Salle College. In 1993, with Dr D.W.Shim well, he was responsible for the establishment of the Palaeoecological Research Unit at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction PART I: A DIFFERENTIATED WORLD Introduction 1 Planet
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