Martin S. Kenzer

Concepts in Human Geography

This collection explores the origins, development, and applications of the most fundamental and enduring concepts in human geography. Providing the most comprehensive examination of the field to date, nine essays on substantive concepts, such as nature, culture, space, time, region, and ecology, are flanked by seven essays on methodological concepts ranging from maps and models to feminism and postmodernism. More universal in scope, more conceptual in content, and more accessible in exposition than books on themes and contemporary debates in geography, Concepts in Human Geography makes an excellent text in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in geographic methods, history, and philosophy.

Applied Geography: Overview and Introduction

For well over a decade, many professional geographers in the United States have demonstrated considerable interest in the applied aspects of their discipline. Their attention has been focused on job opportunities rather than geography’s traditional role as a problem-solving discipline that contributes to a broad, well-rounded, liberal arts education. A similar pattern developed later in Canada, and it spread to England shortly thereafter. The ‘applied movement’ is today well ensconced in academic geography programs in many countries.