Research Geography : Trends and Techniques

Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Physical geography 3 Environmentalism geography 4 Population geography 5 Economic geography 6 Human geography 7 Global geography 8 Geographical water resources 9 Mountain geography 10 Geographical status of mining industry in India 11 Housing geography 12 Urban geography Bibliography IndexGeography as a discipline can be split broadly into two main subsidiary fields human geography and physical geography The former focuses largely on the built environment and how space is created viewed and managed by humans as well as the influence humans have o0n the space they occupy The latter examines the natural environment and ho the climate vegetation and life soil water and landforms are produced and interact S a result of the two subfields using different approaches a third field has emerged which is environmental geography Environmental geography combines physical and human geography and looks at the interactions between the environment and humans This book is organized under twelve chapters encompassing all vital areas of geography In the present book an endeavour is made to give a clear picture of geography and its branches and subfields The chapters contained herein give a brief description of major subfields which can be further researched by the scholars 296 pp.…