| Description |
vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Rural land evaluation / Anthony Young -- I Planning enviornments and purposes -- II Approaches to land evaluation -- III Land capability classification -- IV Speical-purpose and multi-purpose evaluation -- V An example: land evaluation in a rain forest environment -- VI Conclusion -- 2. Agriculture and agrarian land planning / P. T. Wheeler -- I Perspective on the geographer's role -- II Data collection: establishing the facts -- III Data explanation -- IV Prediction -- 3. Water resources / Ian Douglas -- I Water-resource inventories -- II Appraisals of water supplies -- III Investigations of agricultural water resources -- IV Urban and industrial water-supply problem -- V Studies of floods and folld-plains -- VI Concluding review -- 4. Urban land evaluation / Davis Thomas -- I Urban land-use theory -- II Urban land appraisal -- 5. Manpower planning -- I Labour resources -- II Labour supply as a location factor -- III Local labour markets -- IV Labour supply and labour turnover -- V The female labour force -- VI Conclusion -- 6. Marketing / John A. Dawson -- I Definitions and problem -- II Marketing systems -- III Marketing theory and the geographer's contribution -- IV Spatial processes in the marketing system -- V Marketing and development issue -- 7. politics / J. N. H. Douglas -- I Heritage -- II The political system -- III Major fields of politics-geographic study -- IV Politics and environmental management -- 8. Air pollution / Peter Cox -- I The constituents of air pollution -- II Influences of the landscape on patterns of air pollution -- III Techniques of measurement and ayalysis -- IV The control of air pollution -- 9. Health / Neil D. McGlashan -- I The relationship of geography with medicine -- II The data of medical geography -- III Spatial analysis in medical geography -- IV Conclusion -- 10. Recreation / J. A. Patmore -- I Geography and leisure -- II Evolution -- III dEMAND -- iv Supply -- V Demand/ supply relationships -- 11. Conservation / I. G. Simmons -- I Man and environment -- II Conservation at regional and national scales -- III Conservation at the global scale -- IV Interaction of geography and conservation |
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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Geography.
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Geography. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
| Added Author |
Doornkamp, J. C. (John Charles)
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