International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Twelve-Volume Set

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v. 8. Oceania -- Oceanographic Mapping -- Oceans -- Olsson, G. -- Oral History -- Oral History, Ecological -- Orientalism -- Other/Otherness -- Overlay (in GIS) -- Oxbridge Geographies -- Paasi, A. -- Pacific Rim -- Parenting/Motherhood/Fatherhood -- Participant Observation -- Participation -- Participatory Action Research -- Participatory Video -- Patriarchy -- Peasant Agriculture -- Peet, R. -- People's Geography -- Performance, Research as -- Performative and Embodied Mapping -- Performativity -- Phenomenology/Phenomenological Geography -- Philosophy and Human Geography -- Photogrammetry/Aerial Photography -- Photographs -- Physical Geography and Human Geography -- Place -- Place Names -- Place, Politics of -- Planning, Urban -- Plant Geographies -- Point Pattern Analysis -- Policing -- Political Boundaries -- Political Ecology -- Political Economy, Geographical -- Political Geography -- Political Representation -- Polycentricity -- Polyvocality -- Popular Culture -- Population Geography -- Port-Industrial Complexes -- Positivism/Positivist Geography -- Possibilism -- Postcolonial Cities -- Postcolonialism/Postcolonial Geographies -- Postconflict Geographies -- Postdevelopment -- Posthumanism/Posthumanistic Geographies -- Postmodern City -- Postmodernism/Postmodern Geography -- Post-Phenomenology/Post-Phenomenological Geographies -- Post-Productivist and Multifunctional Agriculture -- Post-Socialist Cities -- Poststructuralism/Poststructuralist Geographies -- Poverty -- Poverty, Rural -- Pragmatism/Pragmatist Geographies -- Pred, A. -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Private/Public Divide -- Privatization -- Probabilism -- Probability Models -- Projections -- Protest, Rural -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalytic Theory/Psychoanalytic Geographies -- Psychotherapy/Psychotherapeutic Geographies -- Public Good -- Public Policy -- Public Space -- Public Spaces, Urban

Health: Topics include: health geography; medical geography; geographies of care; emotional geographies/geographies of mental health; therapeutic places; health care systems and institutions; healthcare policies; critical disability studies; epidemics and pandemics; international health aid; health and development; health and the built environment Given the multidisciplinary nature of human geography and the spatial turn across the social sciences and humanities, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will also provide an invaluable source of information for scholars and students outside the discipline. Audrey Kobayashi is a native of British Columbia, with a B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (1983) at UCLA, and PhD research study (Monbusho Scholarship) at the University of Kyoto (1980−1982); taught in Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University (1983−1994), then Queen’s University, initially as Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies (1994−1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography; appointed Queen’s Research Chair in 2005; visiting professorships include the University of British Columbia, University College London, Canterbury University, New Zealand; Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC (1994); elected positions include President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1999−2001), President of the Association of American Geographers (2010−2011); appointed to the Royal Society of Canada; awards include Lifetime Achievement Awards of the CAG, AAG, and Ethnic Geography Study Group, AAG Presidential Achievement Award, Aspen Institute Scholarship, several teaching awards; over 100 publications and numerous grants, with research focusing on migration, racism, employment equity and human rights, and the history and philosophy of geography.The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/ref_works/coming/ This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades. Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in its own right, and a "spatial turn" is evident in disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology, and Literary Criticism.

Economic: Topics include: economic development; economic theories; spatial theories; urban economic geography; economic inequalities; housing; industrial geography; geographies of labor and job provision; transportation and communication; technology; world trade and trade policies; modernization and global economies; neoliberalism The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. Brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on geographical topics and techniques of interest across the social sciences, humanities, science, and medicine

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Contains more than 1,000 entries ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 words offering accessible introductions to basic concepts, sophisticated explanations of complex topics, and information on geographical societies around the world Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades.

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 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. Online access provides many benefits for scholars, researchers, professors, students and librarians: Assembles a truly global group of more than 900 scholars hailing from over 40 countries, for a comprehensive, authoritative overview of geography around the world Physical Geography, Human Geography, and Geographies in the Anthropocene - Jasper Knight and Stephan Harrisonv. 11. Structural Adjustment -- Structural Equations Models -- Structural Marxism -- Structuralism/Structuralist Geography -- Structuration Theory -- Structurationist Geography -- Subaltern -- Subalternity -- Subjectivity -- Suburbanization -- Superpower -- Surrealism/Surrealist Geographies -- Surveillance -- Surveying -- Sustainability -- Sustainability, Urban -- Sustainable Development -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Symbolism, Iconography -- Systems -- Systems Theory -- Taylor, G. -- Taylor, P. -- Technological Change -- Technology and Regional Development -- Technology Industries -- Telecommunications -- Territorial Production Complexes -- Territory and Territoriality -- Terrorism -- Text and Textuality -- Text, Textual Analysis -- Theocracy -- Therapeutic Landscapes -- Thiessen Polygon -- Third World -- Third World Cities -- Thrift, N. -- Time and Historical Geography -- Time Geographic Analysis -- Time Geography -- Time Series Analysis -- Time-Space Diaries -- Tourism -- Tourism, Rural -- Tourism, Urban -- Trade Blocs -- Trade, International -- Trade, Transport and Communications, Historical Geographies of -- Transatlantic -- Transcripts (Coding and Analysis) -- Transitional Economies -- Translation -- Transnational Corporations in Developing Countries -- Transnational Elites -- Transnational Ethnic Networks -- Transnationalism -- Transnationalism and Labor Geography -- Transnationalism and Technology Transfer -- Transnationality -- Transport and Accessibility -- Transport and Deregulation -- Transport and Globalization -- Transport and Social Exclusion -- Transport and Sustainability -- Transport Geography -- Transport, Public -- Transport, Rural -- Transport, Urban -- Transportation and Land Use -- Travel and Travel-Writing -- Trend Surface Models -- Triangulation -- Tropical Geography -- Tuan, Y.-F Population: Topics include: population growth and distribution; demographic change; digital technologies for population representation; migration; refugees; population and development; population and warfare/religion/governance; geographies of aging; globalization; racialization; gender The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect— featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. Explores many of the dualities that long characterized social science—nature versus society, the individual versus the social, the historical versus the geographical, consumption versus production—and breaks them down using postmodern and poststructuralist approaches