Key Concepts in Geography
- Nicholas Clifford - Loughborough University, UK
- Sarah Holloway - Loughborough University, UK
- Stephen P Rice - Loughborough University, UK
- Gill Valentine - Sheffield University, UK
"This book clearly outlines key concepts that all geographers should readily be able to explain. It does so in a highly accessible way. It is likely to be a text that my students will return to throughout their degree."
- Dr Karen Parkhill, Bangor University
"The editors have done a fantastic job. This second edition is really accessible to the student and provides the key literature in the key geographical terms of scale, space, time, place and landscape."
- Dr Elias Symeonakis, Manchester Metropolitan University
"An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography."
- Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, Exeter University
Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides in one volume concepts from both human geography and physical geography.
Four introductory chapters on different intellectual traditions in geography situate and introduce the entries on the key concepts. Each entry then comprises a short definition, a summary of the principal arguments, a substantive 5,000-word discussion, the use of real-life examples, and annotated notes for further reading.
Written in an accessible way by established figures in the discipline, the definitions provide thorough explanations of all the core concepts that undergraduates of geography must understand to complete their degree.
An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography
Excellent basic text book for all students, and (to go alongside the 'dictionary of human geography') as a key 'turn-to' book when stuck on any reading.
I shall use this book in my modules Social Geographies and Geographies of Retailing and Consumption to discuss the main concepts.
We are currently redesigning our practical modules in Level 1 and Level 2. This book, allied with the key methods book, provides an appropriate focus for the course. Although I am not designing the course myself, I recommended these texts to the appropriate staff member (though I think they already had this in mind).
This book is an essential compulsory text at our master course "History and Philosophy of Geography"
Currently I refer students to an encyclopedia of human geography for many of the background concepts and themes informing the module. This work very usefully offers additional discussion of a few key notions of the course: geographical knowledge, space, time, place, scale, landscape, nature. As such it will be recommended as a key reference work. Expensive for a recommended purchase.
A fully revised and updated Second Edition, including new chapters on Nature (Chapters 17 and 18), Globalization (19 and 20), Development (21 and 22), and Risk (23 and 24), as well as a new section on Practicing Geography (25 and 26).
