Companion Encyclopedia of Geography

The Environment and Humankind

Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget , Mike Robinson

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Routledge
08 August 1996

Reference works; Place names & gazetteers; Economic geography

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. This Companion examines both physical and human geography, and the relationship between the two. An international team of forty-seven geographers, all recognized figures in their discipline, chart the development of humankind's diverse habitat and the social and economic activities within that habitat up

to the present day, and look to the future. The work is divided into six parts:
* 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 for professionals in interested commercial and public sector organizations. SELECTED AS CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF 1997. Cliff D. Oliver, Formerly Professor of Geography, University of New England, Australia; Andrew Goudie, University of Oxford, England; Alfred G. Fischer, Professor Emeritus of Geol

Edited by: Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, Mike Robinson, Mike Robinson (all of University of Manchester)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 56mm
Weight: 1.460kg
ISBN: 9780415074179
ISBN 10: 0415074177
Pages: 1056
Publication Date: 08 August 1996
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: The Environment and Humankind

this is an indispensable item for any library that wishes to strengthen its reference section, and for the professional geographer who wants to keep abreast of developments in the field. - Choice, February 1997 The fabulously rich vein of information in this book weaves its way through a global view of the interrelationships between humans and our habitat in a style that is both easy to understand and endlessly fascinating..... this searching investigation of geography in all its aspects past and present is a fine selection for any library that wishes to strengthen its reference collection. - American Reference Books Annual, Volume 29, 1998 I recommend this work to academic libraries in institutions with a department of geography. - RQ, Summer 1997