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Companion encyclopedia of geography: the environment and humankind
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
1996
Language
English
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Planet Earth / Cliff D. Ollier
The ever-changing climate / Andrew Goudie
The biosphere / Alfred G. Fischer
Human evolution / Bernard Wood
The geography of language / William C. Brice
Religion : nature and origins / E. Geoffrey Parrinder
The modification of the earth by humans in pre-industrial times
European settlement, 1450-1750 / Len Guelke and Jeanne Kay
European expansion and land cover transformation / Michael Williams
The origins of the capitalist world economy / John Langton
Industrialization and world agriculture / Brian W. Ilbery and Ian R. Bowler
Changes in global demography / John I. Clarke
Origins of modern environmentalism / J. M. Powell
The saviour city : beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales / Brian T. Robson
From a 'cultural' world to a 'political' one / Paul Claval
Unity and division in global political geography / Peter Taylor
The geography of conflicts and the prospects for peace / John O'Loughlin
A new 'geo-economy' : patterns, processes, problems / Peter Dicken
Third World urbanization / Alan Gilbert
From riches to rags : the international debt crisis / Stuart Corbridge
Monitoring, modelling, and mothering the environment : the impact of science and technology since the second World War / Richard Huggett
Environmentalism on the move / Timothy O'Riordan
Climactic variation and global change / F. Kenneth Hare
Ocean uses : environment and management / Alastair D. Couper
Water : confronting the critical dilemna / Peter Crabb
Surface instability and human modifications in geomorphic systems / Jonathan D. Phillips and William H. Renwick
The tropical rain forest / John R. Flenly
Humanity's resrouces / I. G. Simmons
Environmental hazards / John Whittow
The sustainability of sustenance : land and agricultural production in the Third World / William C. Clarke
Famines and surplus in world food production / David C. Grigg
The nature of Third World cities / David Drakakis-Smith
Western cities and their problems / David T. Herbert
Changing countrysides / Hugh Clout
The quality of life : human welfare and social justice / David M. Smith
The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher education / R. J. Johnston
Achievements of spatial science / Arild Holt-Jensen
Geography and humanism in the late twentieth century / Anne Buttimer
Challenging the boundaries : survival and change in a gendered world / Janice Monk
Place / Edward Relph
Concern for geography : a case for equal emphasis of the geographical traditions / Adetoye Faniran
Home and world, cosmopolitanism and ethnicity : key concepts in contemporary human geography / Yi-Fu Tuan
Paleoenvironmental narrative and scenario science / Frank Oldfield
Geographical futures : some personal speculations / Peter Haggett.
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9780415074179
9780203416822
9780203416822
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