The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Five Years in the making, this is the definitive reference resource in the field.

An authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas.

Includes over 900 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world.

Provides interdisciplinary coverage of a vast array of subject areas including philosophy, methods, people, social/cultural, political, economic, development, health, cartography, urban, historical, and regional geography
Provides an in-depth contextual guidance directing readers to the major sources for advanced study
Represents an essential reference aid for undergraduate and graduate students, professional geographers and other scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and geography teachers

Message from the Editors-in-Chief:

Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift Over the past one hundred years or so, Human Geography has grown in to one of the most vibrant university disciplines around the world. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is a multinational attempt to capture and trace the state of human geography as discipline and as a description of the world as it exists today and as it changes its shape in the future. Its ambition, in other words, is to provide a major and continually updated resource that provides an authoritative means of answering the fundamental questions in human geography. It does this by taking on the venerable format of an Encyclopedia which we can understand both in its original meaning of a course of education — in this case with the description ‘human geography’ — or in its more modern meaning as treating comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge through the medium of articles arranged alphabetically, by subject.

Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift

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