Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind / edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / I.G. Simmons -- 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 -- Climatic variation and global change / F. Kenneth Hare -- Ocean uses : environment and management / Alastair D. Couper -- Water : confronting the critical dilemma / 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 resources / 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 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 -- Structural themes in geographical discourse / Richard Peet -- 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.