International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift

By Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography presents an authoritative and accomplished resource of data at the self-discipline of human geography and its constituent, and comparable, topic components. The encyclopedia comprises over 1,000 targeted entries on philosophy and concept, key thoughts, tools and practices, biographies of remarkable geographers, and geographical notion and praxis in several elements of the realm.

This groundbreaking undertaking covers each box of human geography and the discipline's relationships to different disciplines, and is worldwide in scope, regarding a world set of individuals. Given its huge, inclusive scope and particular on-line accessibility, it's expected that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography becomes the main reference paintings for the self-discipline over the arriving decades.

The Encyclopedia can be on hand in either restricted version print and on-line through ScienceDirect - that includes vast shopping, looking, and inner cross-referencing among articles within the paintings, plus dynamic linking to magazine articles and summary databases, making navigation versatile and straightforward. for additional information, pricing innovations and availability stopover at
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* on hand on-line on ScienceDirect and in restricted version print format
* large, interdisciplinary insurance throughout human geography: Philosophy, tools, humans, Social/Cultural, Political, monetary, improvement, overall healthiness, Cartography, city, ancient, Regional
* finished and detailed - the 1st of its style in human geography

[The encyclopedia] strives to dwell as much as its identify with 844 members representing over forty countries., it covers either theoretical and utilized features. even as , it really is slated to mirror the altering nature of the self-discipline itself. destiny plans for this source to be consistently up to date to track constructing scholarship. via protecting all entries, the encyclopedia turns into a list of the process the self-discipline itself. Given its scope and total insurance, and its projected ever-current prestige (as of the subsequent edition), this can be a groundbreaking venture that may be the normal for the field-potentially for generations. hugely recommended."--CHOICE

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Material Culture T Skelton D P Tolia-Kelly 497 500 Material, The A Tay 505 McDowell, L. A Jones 511 Contents li VOLUME 7 M Media D B Clarke 1 Medical Geography R Earickson 9 Medieval Geography K D Lilley 21 Medieval Historical Geographies Mega-Cities R Jones Y-M Yeung Meinig, D. 40 K M Dunn 48 Memorials and Monuments Memory D H Alderman and O J Dwyer S McDowell Mental Health 64 S Bell 70 Me´tropole d’e´quilibre G Burgel Middle East and North Africa Migrant Workers Migration 76 M E Bonine C Cindy Fan P Boyle 96 Military and Geography Military Geographies W Jenkins 116 R Woodward 122 J H McKendrick P Merriman C G Pooley J R Gold 157 R N Gwynne Modifiable Areal Unit Problem Monte Carlo Simulation Moral Economies 169 S Ratick and G Schwarz 175 Multiculturalism 185 G Setten and K M Brown Movies and Films, Analysis of Multicultural City S C Aitken H Hoernig and M Walton-Roberts J Clayton Multidimensional Scaling 164 D W Wong L McDowell Moral Landscapes 144 150 D Linehan Modernization Theory 128 134 Mobility, History of Everyday Modernity 108 M Farish Mixed and Multiple Methods Modern City 82 89 Migration, Historical Geographies of Mobility 51 59 C J Smith Mental Maps 32 191 196 201 211 W M Bowen 216 N Nation J Penrose National Parks 223 N Curry National Schools of Geography National Spatialities T Edensor 229 P Claval 236 242 lii Contents Nationalism D H Kaplan 248 Nationalism, Historical Geography of M A Busteed 255 Natural Resources G Bridge 261 Naturalistic Testing R D Jacobson 269 Nature K R Olwig 275 Nature, Historical Geographies of Nature, History of P Holland and A Wearing 286 M Tanskanen 293 S Fullagar 298 Nature, Performing Nature, Social N Argent 303 Nature-Culture O Jones 309 Natures, Charismatic J Lorimer Natures, Gendered C Radel Natures, Postcolonial 331 M Sioh Neighborhood Change 337 J Kenny Neighborhood Effects 343 Sang-Il Lee Neighborhoods and Community Neocolonialism 324 349 J Flint 354 M Watts 360 Neoliberal Economic Strategies Neoliberalism R Le Heron 365 W Larner 374 Neoliberalism and Development Neoliberalism, Urban W E Murray 379 W Larner 385 Network Analysis M J Kuby and T D Roberts and C D Upchurch, and S Tierney 391 Network Regions P Cooke 399 Networks G Grabher 405 Networks, Urban N Clarke 414 Neural Networks I Casas 419 New Regionalism New Towns G MacLeod K Kafkoula New Urbanism NIMBY 423 428 E J McCann 438 P Hubbard 444 Nongovernmental Organizations Saraswati Raju Non-Representational Theory/Non-Representational Geographies Nordic Geography K Simonsen Nordplan and Nordregio North–South 450 L Cadman 456 464 469 G Olsson A McGregor and D Hill 473 VOLUME 8 O Oceania W E Murray Oceanographic Mapping 1 D M Lawrence 14 Contents Oceans liii P E Steinberg 21 M Gren 27 Olsson, G.

91 F Eva Lamarck(ian)ism 97 H Winlow Land Change Science Land Rights 99 B L Turner II 107 J Ja¨ger Land Rent Theory 112 R Howitt Landscape 118 J Dubow 124 Landscape Iconography S Hoelscher Landscape Perception Language 132 K M Morin 140 R Jones 146 Language and Research A Aylett and T J Barnes 153 Cristo´bal Kay 159 Latin American Structuralist School Law and Law Enforcement Learning Regions Leisure D Delaney 165 B T Asheim 172 J Mansvelt 179 Lesbian Geographies Ley, D. 59 K Browne and C J Nash P Jackson Liberalism 193 E Gilbert 195 Life Course Approaches Literature Livelihoods R Fincher 207 M Brosseau 212 F Owusu 219 Local Development G Garofoli Local Economic Development 225 S Conti and P Giaccaria Local Economic Development, Politics of Local–Global 187 M Haldrup K R Cox 233 239 245 l Contents Locality Debates P Cooke Location Analysis M W Horner Location Theory Logistics 256 263 A T Murray 270 M Hesse and J-P Rodrigue 277 Longitudinal Methods (Cohort Analysis, Life Tables) Los Angeles School of Post-Modern Urbanism Lowenthal, D.

D J Unwin 452 P Sunley 458 Street Names and Iconography M Azaryahu 460 VOLUME 11 S Structural Adjustment G Mohan Structural Equations Models Structural Marxism 1 P L Mokhtarian and D T Ory A Kent 18 Structuralism/Structuralist Geography Structuration Theory Subaltern R G Smith R Lippuner and B Werlen Structurationist Geography 10 B Werlen C McEwan 30 39 50 59 Subalternity V Gidwani 65 Subjectivity J P Sharp 72 Suburbanization Superpower A Mace J O’Loughlin Surrealism/Surrealist Geographies Surveillance 77 M Henry 82 D Pinder 87 95 Contents Surveying U F Paleo Sustainability 100 T Marsden Sustainability, Urban 103 M Whitehead Sustainable Development 109 J A Elliott Symbolic Interactionism 117 V J Del Casino, Jr.

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