Roy / Trudgill Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography

From What to Why?
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-134-66003-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?' 'Why are we doing it?'. These questions have, so far, been more enthusiastically taken up by human geography rather than physical geography. Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography aims to redress the balance.

Written and edited by a distinguished group of physical geographers, Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography comprises of a collection of international writer's thoughts which reveal personal motivations, and look at tensions in the worlds of meaning in which physical geography is involved. How are the meanings of the physical environment derived? Is the future of physical geography one where the only, or at least the dominant, meanings are framed in the contexts of environmental issues.

Covering a diverse and lively selection of topics, the contributors of this book offer guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography, and introduce the reader to its wider cultural significance. This book is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Andre

Trudgill, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Setting the Scene.
Chapter 1 Previous actors and current influences: trends and fashions in physical geography.
Chapter 2 Meaning, knowledge, constructs and fieldwork in physical geography.
Part II Personal Meanings
Chapter 3 Realms of gold, wild surmise and wondering about physical geography
Chapter 4 Goodbye to geographical reality: a retrospective on the New Geography
Part III Research Meanings
Chapter 5 The Natural Science of Geomorphology
Chapter 6 Putting the morphology back into fluvial geomorphology: the case of river meanders and tributary junctions.
Chapter 7 Simple at heart? Landscape as a self-organizing complex system.
Chapter 8 Cultural Climatology
Chapter 9 Geomorphologic and landscape wisdom. Managing slopes through local knowledge.
Chapter 10 Conceptions of nature: implications for an integrated geography.
Chapter 11 Ethical grounds for an intergrated geography
Part IV Futures
Chapter 12 'The writing's on the walls': On style, substance and selling physical geography
Chapter 13 Conclusion