AMONG text-books of geography this volume is noteworthy, because it has a fresh outlook and strikes new ground, the author having the courage to depart from many of the time-honoured conventions of ...

IN spite of its large size, this book covers only a small part of economic geography. It claims to deal in out line with the several factors of the natural environment as they affect human life. A ...

Last week, we made some new friends from Central America. The children wanted to know where El Salvador was, and our new friend tried to explain, 'kind of below Guatemala and next to Honduras'. But ...

At the annual conference of the Institute in January 1986, held at the University of Reading, the History and Philosophy of Geography Study Group organized a symposium on the subject of 'The Unity of ...

This short unit looks at the growth and production of cotton and the cost to the environment and health of its workers. You may also wish to bring in topics such as genetically modified cotton and the ...

This course is about learning both the principles of hydrology as well as the techniques which can be used to solve hydrologic problems. In practice, hydrologists have to quantify rates at which water ...

A child led introduction to life on the North Frisian island of Sylt. Sylt is very close to the German mainland and mainland Denmark. Connected by the Hindenburg causeway to the mainland, this 30km ...