Contemporary meanings in physical geography
Subtitle: from what to why?
By: edited by Stephen Trudgill and André Roy.
Contributors: Trudgill, Stephen T. 1947-; Roy, André.
Publisher: Arnold; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Physical geography -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Professor Sir Ron Cooke -- PART I. SETTING THE SCENE; title: Previous actors and current influences: trends and fashions in physical geography -- Peter Sims; title: Meaning, knowledge, constructs and fieldwork in physical geography -- Stephen Trudgill -- PART II. PERSONAL MEANINGS; title: Realms of gold, wild surmise and wondering about physical geography -- Tim Burt; title: Goodbye to geographical reality: a retrospect on the new geography -- Tim Bayliss-Smith -- PART III. RESEARCH MEANINGS; title: Natural science of geomorphology? -- Chris Keylock; title: Putting the morphology back into fluvial geomorphology: the case of river meanders and tributary junctions -- André Roy; title: Simple at heart? Landscape as a self-organizing complex system -- David Favis-Mortlock, -- Dirk de Boer; title: Cultural climatology -- John Thornes, -- Glenn McGregor; title: Geomorphological and landscape wisdom - using local knowledge to manage slopes -- Gerardo Bocco, -- Juan Pulido; title: Conceptions of nature: implications for an integrated geography -- Michael Urban, -- Bruce Rhoads; title: Ethical grounds for an integrated geography -- Keith Richards -- PART V. FUTURES; title: 'Writing's on the walls': on style, substance and selling physical geography -- Heather Viles -- Conclusion:; title: contemporary meanings in physical geography -- Stephen Trudgill.