Applied Geography: Principles and Practice : an Introduction to Useful Research in Physical, Environmental and Human Geography

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Michael Pacione
Psychology Press, 1999 - 632 pages

Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key issues and contemporary debates are within the books main sections, which cover:
natural and environmental hazards
environmental change and management
challenges of the human environment
techniques of spatial analysis
Applied geography is the application of geographic knowledge and skills to identify the nature and causes of social, economic and environmental problems and inform policies which lead to their resolution.

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Contents

the principles and practice of applied geography
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Natural and environmental hazards 2 Global warming 1920
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Acid precipitation
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Extreme weather events
51
Landuse conflict at the urban fringe
301
Derelict and vacant land
309
Sustainable tourism
321
Townscape conservation
333
Urbanisation and counterurbanisation
347
Boundary disputes
358
Political spaces and representation within the state
375
Accord
383

A classification of extreme weather and weatherrelated events
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Earthquakes and vulcanism
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Landslides
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Floods
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113
Physical problems of the urban environment
124
The decline in smoke sulphur dioxide and lead in the air in Greater Manchester
125
Schematic crosssection through a buried karst plain such as that underlying part
132
Water supply and management
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Wetlands conservation
288
Housing problems in the developed world
390
The geography of poverty and deprivation
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Segregation and discrimination
414
Crime and fear of crime
438
Retail location analysis
450
Urban transport and traffic problems
463
Rural accessibility and transport
474
City marketing as a planning tool
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Lowincome shelter in the third world city
497
GIS remote sensing and the problem of environmental change
539
from traditional to electronic and beyond
556
Geodemographics marketing and retail location
577
do they live?
585
applications in mountain
593
Computer simulation and modelling of urban structure and development
605
Place index
621
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