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9780415305433

Unifying Geography: Common Heritage, Shared Future

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415305433

  • ISBN10:

    0415305438

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Unifying Geographyfocuses on the plural and competing versions of unity that characterize the discipline, which give it cohesion and differentiate it from related fields of knowledge. Each of the chapters is co-authored by both a leading physical and a human geographer. Themes identified include those of the traditional core as well as new and developing topics that are based on subject matter, concepts, methodology, theory, techniques and applications.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
viii
Foreword x
Preface xii
Part I General introduction
Geography: Roots and Continuities
3(30)
David T. Herbert
John A. Matthews
Part II Geographical methodologies
Introduction
21(12)
John A. Matthews
David T. Herbert
Exploration, Discovery and the Cartographic Tradition
33(13)
Peter Vincent
Ian Whyte
Fieldwork and Unity in Geography
46(16)
David R. Stoddart
William M. Adams
The Potential of Geographical Information Systems and Earth Observation
62(32)
Paul A. Longley
Michael J. Barnsley
Part III A focus on environment
Introduction
83(11)
John A. Matthews
David T. Herbert
Environmentalism and Geography: The Great Debate?
94(23)
Peter Beaumont
Chris Philo
Beyond Environmentalism: Towards Sustainability
117(27)
Timothy O'Riordan
Human Vulnerability, Past Climatic Variability and Societal Change
144(27)
David Taylor
Anna R. Davies
Part IV The significance of place
Introduction
163(8)
David T. Herbert
John A. Matthews
Regions, Area Studies and the Meaning of Place
171(18)
Tim Unwin
Jim Rose
Globalization: A Spatial Perspective
189(35)
Wayne K.D. Davies
Part V Landscape: the face of Geography
Introduction
217(7)
John A. Matthews
David T. Herbert
Landscape as Form, Process and Meaning
224(16)
Richard Huggett
Chris Perkins
Landscape and Culture
240(26)
Lesley Head
Part VI Applied geography: contributing to real-world problem solving
Introduction
259(7)
David T. Herbert
John A. Matthews
Natural Hazards on an Unquiet Earth
266(17)
David E. Alexander
Urbanization, Development and the Environment in an Unequal World
283(22)
Ian Douglas
Alan G. Gilbert
Conservation, Preservation and Heritage
305(22)
Michael E. Meadows
Maano F. Ramutsindela
Part VII Broader frameworks in theory and practice
Introduction
321(6)
David T. Herbert
John A. Matthews
Space, Time and Science: Individuals, Emergence and Geographies of Space and Place
327(26)
Keith Richards
Michael Bithell
Michael Bravo
Geography and Public Policy: A Political Turn
353(16)
Brian Robson
Elizabeth Shove
Part VIII General conclusion
Unity in Geography: Prospects for the Discipline
369(25)
John A. Matthews
David T. Herbert
Index 394

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