摘要: Simply stated, geography studies the locations of things and explanations that underlie spatial distributions. Profound forces at work throughout world have made geographical knowledge increasingly important for understanding numerous human dilemmas our capacities to address them. With more than 1,200 entries, Encyclopedia Geography reflects how growth has propelled a demand intermediaries between abstract language academia ordinary everyday life. The six volumes this encyclopedia encapsulate diverse array topics offer comprehensive useful summary state discipline in early 21st century. Key Features: *Gives concise historical sketch geography’s long, rich, fascinating history, including geography, physical GIS; *Provides succinct summaries trends such as globalization, environmental destruction, new geospatial technologies, cyberspace; *Decomposes into broad subject areas: geography; nature society; methods, models, history geographer biographies, geographic organizations, social movements; hundreds color illustrations images lend depth realism text; *Includes special map section. This strategically enormous diversity discipline, multiple meanings space itself, views geographers. It brings together knowledge, making it an invaluable resource any academic library. [Book Synopsis]