Applied Geography: Principles and PracticeMichael Pacione Routledge, 2002 M03 11 - 664 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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... hasbeen discredited asboth ineffective and ethically unacceptable. Positivist science, although of continuing value in applied physical geography, has limitedrelevance for applied research in human geography, which drawsits ...
... hasbeen discredited asboth ineffective and ethically unacceptable. Positivist science, although of continuing value in applied physical geography, has limitedrelevance for applied research in human geography, which drawsits ...
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... has been accompanied bydebate over the relative merits of pure and applied research. Criticssuch as Cooper(1966) and more recently Kenzer (1989)warned againstthe application ofgeographical methods asa threatto the intellectual ...
... has been accompanied bydebate over the relative merits of pure and applied research. Criticssuch as Cooper(1966) and more recently Kenzer (1989)warned againstthe application ofgeographical methods asa threatto the intellectual ...
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... hasbeen mixed andarguably less thanhoped forby thosesocially concerned geographers who engaged in the relevance debate aquarter ofcentury ago. Several reasons maybe proposed toaccount forthis. Thefirst refers tothe eclecticand ...
... hasbeen mixed andarguably less thanhoped forby thosesocially concerned geographers who engaged in the relevance debate aquarter ofcentury ago. Several reasons maybe proposed toaccount forthis. Thefirst refers tothe eclecticand ...
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... hasbeen of the order of0.28 to0.52 mmyr1averaged overthe period1880–1990 (Wigleyand Raper 1993). Houghton (1997) ... has been divided on thedegree of global warming needed to semipermanently meltthe Arctic sea ice (Untersteiner 1984). The ...
... hasbeen of the order of0.28 to0.52 mmyr1averaged overthe period1880–1990 (Wigleyand Raper 1993). Houghton (1997) ... has been divided on thedegree of global warming needed to semipermanently meltthe Arctic sea ice (Untersteiner 1984). The ...
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... hasbeen mostintense and most extensive. Byc. 1750, industrialisation andthe largescale burning offossil fuelwere occurring, so there have been nearly 250 years of uncontrolled emissionsof sulphurous and nitrous acids. The impact has been ...
... hasbeen mostintense and most extensive. Byc. 1750, industrialisation andthe largescale burning offossil fuelwere occurring, so there have been nearly 250 years of uncontrolled emissionsof sulphurous and nitrous acids. The impact has been ...
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