ABSTRACT

This revised edition takes the theme of place as the unifying principle for a full account of the discipline at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The work comprises 64 substantial essays addressing human and physical geography, and exploring their inter-relations. The encyclopedia does full justice to the enormous growth of social and cultural geography in recent years. Leading international academics from ten countries and four continents have contributed, ensuring that differing traditions in geography around the world are represented. In addition to references, the essays also have recommendations for further reading.

As with the original work, the new Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides a state-of-the-art survey of the discipline and is an indispensable addition to the reference shelves of libraries supporting research and teaching in geography.

part V|106 pages

The geographical imagination

chapter 34|15 pages

Words

Writing on and about the landscape

chapter 35|18 pages

Mapping

chapter 36|16 pages

Art and geography

Image and imagination

chapter 37|16 pages

Photography

chapter 38|12 pages

Moving images

Contriving the stories of our lives

chapter 39|10 pages

Sound

Music and the spoken word

chapter 40|16 pages

Multimedia

part VI|382 pages

Responses to the geographical drivers of change

chapter 41|15 pages

Natural hazards

Edited ByColin Green

chapter 44|19 pages

Landscapes of waste

chapter 45|16 pages

River management

chapter 46|27 pages

Global water resources

chapter 48|13 pages

Managing the coastal zone

chapter 52|14 pages

Planning for population growth

chapter 53|21 pages

Exploiting

Power, colonialism and resource economies

chapter 54|17 pages

Counting

Finance, debt, banking and the global casino

chapter 55|12 pages

Producing

Changing patterns of work

chapter 56|13 pages

Competing for power

Making local places in a global world

chapter 57|14 pages

Protesting and empowering

Alternative responses to global forces

chapter 58|12 pages

Moving

Migration, mobility

chapter 59|12 pages

Dwelling

chapter 60|13 pages

Communicating

chapter 61|13 pages

Shopping

The terminal form of public life?

chapter 62|11 pages

Engendering change

chapter 63|12 pages

Performativity

Identity and its geographical significance

chapter 64|6 pages

Thinking and acting

Academic, policy and civil society response — a gallery of maps