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Informationen zum Autor Nick Clifford is Professor and Head of Department at King’s College London. Professor Valentine has held prestigious international visiting fellowships at the Universities of Sydney, Australia and Otago, New Zealand and has visited and given keynote addresses at a range of prestigious international conferences. She was co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Social and Cultural Geography, and co-edited Gender, Place and Culture. She has undertaken international research in Europe, Africa and the USA and is committed to developing the University of Sheffield's international strategy within the Faculty of Social Sciences. Klappentext New edition of this best-selling textbook, with ten new chapters.New edition of this best-selling textbook, with ten new chapters. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE NATURE OF GEOGRAPHY Histories of Geography - Mike Heffernan Geography and the Physical Science Tradition - Keith Richards Geography and the Social Science Tradition - Ron Johnston Geography and the Humanities Tradition - Alison Blunt KEY CONCEPTS Space: The Fundamental Stuff of Geography - Nigel Thrift Space: Making Room for Space in Physical Geography - Martin Kent Time: Change and Stability in Environmental Systems - John Thornes Time: From Hegemonic Change to Everyday Life - Peter Taylor Place: Connections and Boundaries in an Interdependent World - Noel Castree Place: The Management of Sustainable Physical Environments - Ken Gregory Scale: Resolution, Analysis and Synthesis in Physical Geography - Tim Burt Scale: The Local and the Global - Andy Herod Social Formations: Thinking about Society, Identity, Power and Resistance - Cindi Katz Physical Systems: Systems in Physical Geography - Stephan Harrison Landscape and Environment: The Physical Layer - Murray Gray Landscape and Environment: Representing and Interpreting the World - Karen Morin Nature: A Contested Concept - Franklin Ginn and David Demeritt Nature: Reclamation, Rehabilitation and Restoration - Roy Haines-Young Globalisation: Interconnected Worlds - James Faulconbridge & Jonathan Beaverstock Globalisation: Earth System Science - Physical Diversity and Global Heterogeneity - Nick Clifford Development: Critical Approaches in Human Geography - Kate Willis Development: The Sustainability Industry - Robert Inkpen Risk - Shaun French Risk: Geophysical Processes in Natural Hazards - Graham Tobin & Burrell Montz Conclusion: Practising Geography Relevance: Human Geography, Public Policy and Public Geographies - David Bell Relevance: The Application of Physical Geographical Knowledge - Mike Church ...
