Mcknights Pysical Geography

It is now more than twenty years since Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett compiled their path-breaking survey of Frontiers in Geographical Teaching (1965), which, together with Models in Geography published just two years later (1967), did so much to consolidate the foundations of what had come to be called the 'New Geography'. The intervening two decades have seen further (and, on occasion, dramatically different) developments in the discipline. Indeed, one of the lasting contributions of both Frontiers and Models was to recognise and welcome change as the very life-blood of intellectual inquiry.

This book is for people, nonspecialists, who want to learn about geography without taking a formal course. It can serve as a classroom supplement, tutorial aid, self-teaching guide, or home-schooling text.

We are now confronted with the challenge of change. This challenge is the result of a revolution of our world economy and society and the growing impact of human activity on the environment. Global Change and Challenge examines some of the crucial challenges facing society in the 1990s and how geography can contribute to their understanding and management. Using the theme of how societies adapt to change, the contributors - at the time of writing all members of the Geography department of the London School of Economics - deal with some of the issues confronting modern geography in three broad groups.