Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White - Hardcover

9780226425740: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226425746 ISBN 13: 9780226425740

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Gilbert F. White is the preeminent geographer of natural resources, hazards, and the human environment. During fifty years of professional work as civil servant, scientist, and educator, he authored numerous books and papers. This volume is the first collection of White's work, spanning his interests and career from 1934 to 1984. Individual introductions by the editors place each selection in historical perspective and assay its significance. With the companion volume, Theme from the Work of Gilbert F. White, White's writings, and the work that he inspired, are now readily accessible to all who share his concern for the stewardship of the earth.

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From the Back Cover:

Themes from the work of Gilbert F. White. The topics chosen in this volume provide a status report on what has been achieved and what challenges lie ahead across the professional concerns of White's career. A diligent reading of the papers is rewarded with a sharpened sense of how far we have come and where we now stand in the integration of social science with natural science in the development of management strategies and policy for resources and environment.

About the Author:

Robert W. Kates is professor of geography at Clark University. Ian Burton is professor of geography and former director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. Kates and Burton, who have published widely, are the coeditors of Readings in Resource Management and Conservation, published by the University of Chicago Press.

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