Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: The Environment and Humankind

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. This Companion examines both physical and human geography, and the relationship between the two. An international team of forty-seven geographers, all recognized figures in their discipline, chart the development of humankind’s diverse habitat and social and economic activities within that habitat up to the present day, and look to the future.