TY - BOOK AU - Douglas,Ian AU - Huggett,Richard J. AU - Robinson,M.E. TI - Companion encyclopedia of geography: the environment and humankind SN - 0415074177 AV - G116 .C645 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Geography N1 - 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 ER -