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Book SynopsisThis book clearly outlines key concepts that all geographers should readily be able to explain. It does so in a highly accessible way. It is likely to be a text that my students will return to throughout their degree.
- Dr Karen Parkhill, Bangor University
The editors have done a fantastic job. This second edition is really accessible to the student and provides the key literature in the key geographical terms of scale, space, time, place and landscape.
- Dr Elias Symeonakis, Manchester Metropolitan University
An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography.
- Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, Exeter University
Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.
Table of ContentsTHE NATURE OF GEOGRAPHY Histories of Geography - Mike Heffernan Geography and the Physical Science Tradition - Keith Richards Geography and the Social Science Tradition - Ron Johnston Geography and the Humanities Tradition - Alison Blunt KEY CONCEPTS Space: The Fundamental Stuff of Geography - Nigel Thrift Space: Making Room for Space in Physical Geography - Martin Kent Time: Change and Stability in Environmental Systems - John Thornes Time: From Hegemonic Change to Everyday Life - Peter Taylor Place: Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World - Noel Castree Place: The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments - Ken Gregory Scale: Resolution, Analysis and Synthesis in Physical Geography - Tim Burt Scale: The Local and the Global - Andy Herod Social Formations: Thinking about Society, Identity, Power and Resistance - Cindi Katz Physical Systems: Systems in Physical Geography - Stephan Harrison Landscape and Environment: The Physical Layer - Murray Gray Landscape and Environment: Representing and Interpreting the World - Karen Morin Nature: A Contested Concept - Franklin Ginn and David Demeritt Nature: Reclamation, Rehabilitation and Restoration - Roy Haines-Young Globalisation: Interconnected Worlds - James Faulconbridge & Jonathan Beaverstock Globalisation: Earth System Science - Physical Diversity and Global Heterogeneity - Nick Clifford Development: Critical Approaches in Human Geography - Kate Willis Development: The Sustainability Industry - Robert Inkpen Risk - Shaun French Risk: Geophysical Processes in Natural Hazards - Graham Tobin & Burrell Montz Conclusion: Practising Geography Relevance: Human Geography, Public Policy and Public Geographies - David Bell Relevance: The Application of Physical Geographical Knowledge - Mike Church
