Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White (Geography, Resources, & Environment) - Hardcover

9780226425764: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White (Geography, Resources, & Environment)

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ISBN 10: 0226425762 ISBN 13: 9780226425764

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Over the course of half a century, Gilbert F. White's work has served to shape and, in several instances, establish many of the fields that have come to be known as the environmental sciences. In this collection of original essays, a companion volume to White's selected writings (volume I), leading scholars in areas such as water supply, environmental hazards, and natural resource management interpret changes in these fields since White's work and assess present and future problems. With volume 1, this collection presents a complete and cogent picture of Gilbert White's contribution and the work he inspired.

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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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