Mcknights Pysical Geography

Despite claims about the "death of social geography" in the 1990s, the sub-discipline has since been rethought and there has been a resurgent concern for and interest in social geographic thought and practice. This volume traces the complexity of social geography as it is practiced and discussed in both its historical and present contexts.

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth—our home—habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.