Geography

More than 3,100 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography including climatology, ecology, population, industry, development and cartography, surveying, meteorology,.

From terms and fundamental concepts to articles on key topics, this encyclopedia includes material by researchers in many disciplines, e.g. law, public policy, geography, anthropology and more.

Although environmental protection is a global issue, many key actions take place at the local level. This handbook gives local governments, nonprofits, and citizens the guidance they need to create an action plan they can implement now.

New concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment.

Thirty chapters written by the leading experts and recognized specialists, exploring recent theories and methodologies, urban networks, redevelopment, inequality, socialities in the city, urban politics, and sustainability.

Contemporary and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism.

Facts, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches and reviews of literature on the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location.

"[S]tate-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas . . . with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world."

"provides a reference point mapping out the terrain of environmental planning in an international and multidisciplinary context."

"A coherent synthesis of scholarship in health geography as well as multidisciplinary insights into cutting-edge research."

From a team of scholars with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the essays explore Traditional Ecological Knowledge through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond.

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of the diversity of contemporary geographical research on cities Bring together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of the city and the urban, chapters incorporate elements from different disciplines with international perspectives.