Companion encyclopedia of geography : the environment and humankind / edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.