A lively and stimulating companion to standard classroom texts in human geography.

• Selections are influential in the development of the discipline or relevant to contemporary policy debates
• Includes a general introduction and helpful individual section introductions
• Systematically organized into eight sections: introductory readings; population and migration; environment, agriculture and society; cultural geography and place; urban geography; economic geography; development geography; and political geography
• Features intelligent readings from esteemed geographers while remaining accessible for those coming to the field for the first time