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Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2

Author : Gilbert F. White

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 20,63 MB

Release : 1986

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780226425771

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Book Description

Over the course of half a century, Gilbert F. White's work has served to shape and, in several instances, establish many of the fields that have come to be known as the environmental sciences. In this collection of original essays, a companion volume to White's selected writings (volume I), leading scholars in areas such as water supply, environmental hazards, and natural resource management interpret changes in these fields since White's work and assess present and future problems. With volume 1, this collection presents a complete and cogent picture of Gilbert White's contribution and the work he inspired.



Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1

Author : Robert W. Kates

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 486 pages

File Size : 32,13 MB

Release : 1986-01-01

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780226425757

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Gilbert F. White is the preeminent geographer of natural resources, hazards, and the human environment. During fifty years of professional work as civil servant, scientist, and educator, he authored numerous books and papers. This volume is the first collection of White's work, spanning his interests and career from 1934 to 1984. Individual introductions by the editors place each selection in historical perspective and assay its significance. With the companion volume, Theme from the Work of Gilbert F. White, White's writings, and the work that he inspired, are now readily accessible to all who share his concern for the stewardship of the earth.



Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1

Author : Gilbert F. White

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 498 pages

File Size : 11,95 MB

Release : 1986

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9780226425757

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Book Description

Gilbert F. White is the preeminent geographer of natural resources, hazards, and the human environment. During fifty years of professional work as civil servant, scientist, and educator, he authored numerous books and papers. This volume is the first collection of White's work, spanning his interests and career from 1934 to 1984. Individual introductions by the editors place each selection in historical perspective and assay its significance. With the companion volume, Theme from the Work of Gilbert F. White, White's writings, and the work that he inspired, are now readily accessible to all who share his concern for the stewardship of the earth.



Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2

Author : Robert W. Kates

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 13,11 MB

Release : 1986-04-15

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780226425764

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Book Description

Over the course of half a century, Gilbert F. White's work has served to shape and, in several instances, establish many of the fields that have come to be known as the environmental sciences. In this collection of original essays, a companion volume to White's selected writings (volume I), leading scholars in areas such as water supply, environmental hazards, and natural resource management interpret changes in these fields since White's work and assess present and future problems. With volume 1, this collection presents a complete and cogent picture of Gilbert White's contribution and the work he inspired.



An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment

Author : Joseph Holden

Publisher : Pearson Education

Page : 808 pages

File Size : 26,11 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780131753044

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Book Description

The second edition of this best-selling and highly respected textbook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the major topics within physical geography. An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment is designed with a range of in-text features such as case studies and reflective questions to aid study. As well as this, students have access to a rich and extensive range of online support resources such as extra weblinks, fieldwork worksheets, interactive models and new video clips of physical processes in action, all of which will help them achieve success in their Physical Geography course.





All about Geography

Author : Alicia Brown

Publisher :

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 27,8 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Environmental education

ISBN : 9789810634391

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Living with Nature's Extremes

Author : Robert E. Hinshaw

Publisher : Big Earth Publishing

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 34,97 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Geographers

ISBN : 9781555663889

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Book Description

Gilbert White has been called the most renowned geographer internationally of the twentieth century, and one who personifies the ideal of a natural resources scientist committed to the stewardship of our planet. He has educated the nation and the world on how to change the ways we manage water resources, mitigate natural hazards, and assess the environment.



Geographers

Author : Patrick H. Armstrong

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 11,18 MB

Release : 2015-12-14

Category : Science

ISBN : 1474227015

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An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas, and includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.