includes index and biblioraphy

Human Geography stands at the very centre of the disciplines that make up the soical sciences. Terms drawn from a host of different topics - the economics of trade and industry, politics and sociology, the environment and land use, planning and management- are all used constantly by human geographers. this major reference book provides clear and concise definitions of all such terms (as well as certain historical usages still to be found in important sources) and explains the invaluable mathematical and statistical techniques that have revolutionized all the human sciences. Like its companion volume, the penguin dictionary of physical geography, it covers in full one of the great sub-disciplines created by the explosive recent growth in geogrpahy; it also makes it abundantly clear that geography - for too long the poor relation of the human sciences - has become in the last thirty uears one of the most challenging and exciting disciplines of all.