IN spite of its large size, this book covers only a small part of economic geography. It claims to deal in out line with the several factors of the natural environment as they affect human life. A ...

AMONG text-books of geography this volume is noteworthy, because it has a fresh outlook and strikes new ground, the author having the courage to depart from many of the time-honoured conventions of ...

At the annual conference of the Institute in January 1986, held at the University of Reading, the History and Philosophy of Geography Study Group organized a symposium on the subject of 'The Unity of ...

The controversy over the Columbian Quincentenary identifies two broad issues of fundamental interest to geography: (a) the decimation and displacement of indigenous peoples, leading to creation of new ...

This short unit looks at the growth and production of cotton and the cost to the environment and health of its workers. You may also wish to bring in topics such as genetically modified cotton and the ...

This course is about learning both the principles of hydrology as well as the techniques which can be used to solve hydrologic problems. In practice, hydrologists have to quantify rates at which water ...