Research Catalog

Title

• Explorations in human geography : encountering place / edited by Richard Le Heron... [et al.].

Publication

Auckland ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Le Heron, Richard B.
• Le Heron, Richard.

Description

xviii, 438 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm. +

Summary

The book introduces students to issues in human geography, and includes distinctive New Zealand perspectives. It shows how different places are connected by social, cultural, economic, environmental, and political factors, and explains how increasing globalisation impacts on daily lives.

Subject

• Human geography
• Human geography > New Zealand

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-430) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT; 16 MB RAM; 500 MB free disk space; Web browser; soundcard and modem; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Encountering places, peoples and environments : introducing human geography / Laurence Murphy and Richard Le Heron -- (Re)producing the economic. Making markets / Richard Le Heron -- Exploiting technologies / Gordon Winder -- Fabricating space / Pip Forer -- Mapping the cultural. Culturing territory / Richard Bedford -- Gendering place / Robyn Longhurst -- Contesting development / Sara Kindon -- Living the environment. Transforming landscapes / Michael Roche -- Managing environments / John Campbell -- Sustaining environments / Peter Urich -- Exploring the urban. Visioning cities / Laurence Murphy -- Consuming spaces / Juliana Mansvelt -- Remaking places / Eric Pawson -- Reflections : geographers and geography. Jobs and geographers / Margaret Goldstone -- Encountering place as metaphor and narrative / Richard Le Heron, Laurence Murphy and Christina Stringer.

ISBN

0195584201

OCLC

44014838

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library