About the cover : The natural landscape transformed by human action : only the hilltops still carry the forest that once draped the hillsides and valleys around the village of Khodi in lower Nepal. The slope have been terraced and now stand under rice; irrigation controls the flow of water into the stream below. But evidence of the natural forces at work here still marks the countryside. The in…
The geographer regards the Earth as more than a globe suspended in space. In general, he is concerned with the planet’s lower atmosphere, surface skin, and thin layer of crustal material, or the land-sea-air interface. Here it is that life occurs, localities differ, various conditions appear simultaneously, different processes have been at work since the Earth became relatively stable, and ch…
This is a book about geography. It is also about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – a fundamental set of automated ideas and concepts rooted in over 2500 years of explorations and geographic research (Dobson, 1995) and designed to provide answers to questions based on mapped data. As a practicing geographer I have long been intrigued by the idea of geographer as explorer.
Australia- a geography amply demonstrates the essential functions of the geographer – the making of meaningful descriptions and the interpretation of the distinctive place on the surface of the globe. It is thirty years and more since the last comprehensive advanced geography of Australia was published, and this new volume will be welcomed by advanced students ci geography and those in allied…