Key Concepts in Geography

Gill Valentine editor Nicholas Clifford editor Stephen P Rice editor Sarah L Holloway editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:22nd Dec '08

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"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

Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.

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.

This book is an essential compulsory text at our master course "History and Philosophy of Geography"" -- Dr Britt Dale * drupal *
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 * drupal *
"The key concepts" provides a comprehensive understanding of the building blocks of geography by examining its main "keywords". It is a unique textbook for every level of geography students and professionals." -- Dr Erdem Bekaroglu * drupal *
An excellent accompliment to Key Methods in Geography. I will be recommending this book to our undergraduate students, especially those who wish to gain a broader understanding of geographical concepts. -- Dr Hannah Matthews * drupal *
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 * drupal *
This title has been fundamental in shaping the new teaching format of my module. The concepts are easy for students to follow and the split format of discussing both human and physical principles allows students to generate a more holistic understanding of geographical thought. The inclusion of the practising chapters has been particularly useful in providing my students with an introduction into the more practical application of geography which they have enjoyed immensely. -- Dr Mark Holton * drupal *
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). -- Dr Mark Smith * drupal *
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. -- Dr Nick Baron * drupal *
I found this book very useful and have integrated it in my teaching in BA introduction to Social geography -- Miss Mathilde Christensen * drupal *
An excellent complimentary volume to the Key Methods book which concisely outlines geographical concepts, with relevance to physical and human geographers. -- Mr Ian Harris * drupal *
Good all round text which will support a variety of resarch projects, of a geographical nature or content. -- Mr Owen Lewis * drupal *
A goof reference book for researcher in Geography, that can be valuable even at Masters and doctoral level. -- Mr Ritienne Gauci * drupal *
I shall use this book in my modules Social Geographies and Geographies of Retailing and Consumption to discuss the main concepts. -- Mrs Catherine White * drupal *
My class has been switched. Thus I may adopt it at a later date when the class is adopted but I will be teaching a different class in the fall. -- Professor Ann Laudati * drupal *
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. -- Professor David Harvey * drupal *
An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography -- Professor Patrick Devine-Wright * drupal *

ISBN: 9781412930222

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 800g

480 pages

2nd Revised edition