Overview
Focuses on the social contexts of a group of distinguished British geographers after World War II and how they have understood landscape change across time
Highlights the social networks and ideologies that have underpinned the field of geography and research on environmental transformation
Appeals to scholars of geography and geomorphology, the history of science, and environmental history
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Climate Change
- Desert Geomorphology
- Desert Ecology
- History of Geography
- Environmental History
- the Mediterranean climate
- A. T. Grove
- Political Ecology
- Geography in Britain
- Environmental change
- Landscape change
- Desert Environments
- Politics of Science
- Politics of Colonialism
- Natural history
- Ecosystems Sciences
- historical geography
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vinita Damodaran is Professor of South Asian History at the University of Sussex, UK.
Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geography in Britain after World War II
Book Subtitle: Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time
Editors: Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28323-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28322-3Published: 19 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28325-4Published: 10 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28323-0Published: 13 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 231
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Historical Geography, Environment Studies