Key Concepts in Geography

by Nicholas Clifford, Gill Valentine (Editor), Sarah L. Holloway

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 bestselling, standard student resource. The Second Edition of 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; especially relevant now that environment is so critical to our understanding of geography.

Genres: Geography

480 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 2003

Reviews

[Aparna · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of pairs of edited chapters (human vs physical geography) centered around "key concepts" that are the foundation of modern geographic research. Unfortunately, the text seems to be written for a more basic level of understanding (the historic context provided in the introductory chapters lacks nuance) although each chapter provides a number of citations for deeper inquiry. Also, even though the chapters are paired, the two halves of each concept don't necessarily relate back to each other, almost as if each author was completely unaware of what the other was saying about their same topic.

[Kamran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hello to all of you and let me thank you in the first sentence of my comment. Since geography is one of the most complicated and twisted topics in the world and I think there is no one who can give a clear and understandable answer about that. And, as I asked from some of your and great Paul Claval and he also gave me the same answer. Without any doubt I can say this is one of the most important books in geography,