Contents

• General Introduction / Richard Huggett and Mike Robinson - - 1. Planet Earth / Cliff D. Ollier
• 2. The ever- changing climate / Andrew Goudie
• 3. The biosphere / Alfred G. Fischer
• 4. Human evolution / Bernard Wood
• 5. The geography of language / William C. Brice
• 6. Religion: nature and origins / E. Geoffrey Parrinder
• 7. The modification of the earth by humans in pre-industrial times / I. G. Simmons
• 8. European settlement, 1450-1750 / Len Guelke and Jeanne Kay
• 9. European expansion and land cover transformation / Michael Williams
• 10. The origins of the capitalist world economy / John Langton
• 11. Industrialization and world agriculture / Brian W. Ilbery and Ian R. Bowler
• 12. Changes in global demography / John I. Clarke
• 13. Origins of modern environmentalism / J. M. Powell
• 14. The saviour city: beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales / Brian T. Robson
• 15. From a ‘cultural’ world to a ‘political’ one / Paul Claval
• 16. Unity and division in global political geography / Peter Taylor
• 17. The geography of conflicts and the prospects for peace / John O’Loughlin
• 18. A new ‘geo-economy’: patterns, processes, problems / Peter Dicken
• 19. Third World urbanization / Alan Gilbert
• 20. From riches to rags: the international debt crisis / Stuart Corbridge
• 21. Monitoring, modelling and mothering the environment: the impact of science and technology since the Second World War / Richard Huggett
• 22. Environmentalism on the move / Timothy O’Riordan
• 23. Climatic variation and global change / F. Kenneth Hare
• 24. Ocean uses, environment and management / Alastair D. Couper
• 25. Water: confronting the critical dilemma / Peter Crabb
• 26. Surface instability and human modification in geomorphic systems / Jonathan D. Phillips and William H. Renwick
• 27. The tropical rain forest / John R. Flenley
• 28. Humanity’s resources / I. G. Simmons
• 29. Environmental hazards / John Whittow
• 30. The sustainability of sustenance: land and agricultural production in the Third World / William C. Clarke
• 31. Famines and surplus in world food production / David Grigg
• 32. The nature of Third World cities / David Drakakis-Smith
• 33. Western cities and their problems / David T. Herbert
• 34. Changing countrysides / Hugh Clout
• 35. The quality of life: human welfare and social justice / David M. Smith
• 36. The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher education / R. J. Johnston
• 37. Achievements of spatial science / Arild Holt-Jensen
• 38. Geography and humanism in the late twentieth century / Anne Buttimer
• 39. Structural themes in geographical discourse / Richard Peet
• 40. Challenging the boundaries: survival and change in a gendered world / Janice Monk
• 41. Place / Edward Relph
• 42. Concern for geography: a case for equal emphasis of the geographical traditions / Adetoye Faniran
• 43. Home and world, cosmopolitanism and ethnicity: key concepts in contemporary human geography / Yi-Fu Tuan
• 44. Palaeoenvironmental narrative and scenario science / Frank Oldfield
• 45. Geographical futures: some personal speculations / Peter Haggett