Product Description

Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #982843 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 664 pages

From the Back Cover
Essential reading for geography, planning and environmental science students and researchers and all those concerned with the nature of the relationship between people and the environment, this important volume presents a comprehensive introduction to applied geography. Demonstrating the usefulness of geographic research across the various sub-areas of the discipline, forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key issues and contemporary debates are examined within the books main sections, which cover:
natural and environmental hazards
environmental change and management
challenges of the human environment
techniques of spatial analysis
Applied geography is the application of geographic knowledge and skills to identify the nature and causes of social, economic and environmental problems and inform policies which lead to their resolution. The relevance and value of this applie

About the Author
The editor of this volume, Michael Pacione, is Professor of Geography at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Professor David Alexander University of Massachusetts. Dr Mike Barke University of Northumbria. Dr Tony Barnett University of East Anglia. Professor Peter Beaumont University Colllege Wales, Lampeter. Professor Gerald Blake University of Durham. Professor John Blunden The Open University, Milton Keynes. Dr Keith Boucher Loughborough University. Dr Nick Brown University of Oxford. Dr Rosemary Burton University of West of England. Dr Bruce Carlisle Manchester Metropolitan University. Professor Tony Champion University of Newcastle. Dr Sylvia Chant London School of Economics. Dr Gordon Clark University of Lancaster. Dr Graham Clarke University of Leeds. Professor Michale Cozier Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Norman Davidson University of Hull. Professor Iam Douglas Manchester University. Miss Lesley France Whitley Bay. Dr David Green University of Aberdeen. Dr Cliff Guy University College Wales. Professor Martin Haigh Oxford Brookes University, Dr Roy Haines-Young University of Nottingham. Professor David Herbert University College Wales. Dr Ian Heywood Manchester Metropolitan University. Professor Brian Ilbery University of Coventry