Geography: Getting Started

Online version of this comprehensive and authoritative overview of the discipline of Geography. It define the concepts, research, and techniques in geography and interrelated fields.

The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world.

Encyclopedia contains nearly 700 alphabetically organized entries to provide a comprehensive guide both to specific landforms and to the major types of geomorphological processes that create them.

This encyclopedia contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods, coca-colonization, empire, Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, transnational corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum, Zapatista, and much more.

This database provides over 270 annotated bibliographies on various topics related to the subject of Geography. Areas of focus are: biogeography, cartography, climatology, cultural geography, economic geography, environmental geography, geographic information systems, geographic methods, geomorphology, human geography, physical geography, political geography, and urban geography.