• An essential insight into one of the most complex and misunderstood disciplines
• Shows how Geography forms an integral part of contemporary life, with a wide range of up-to-date examples from global warming and oil to urbanization and ethnicity
• Explains the methods and cutting-edge technologies that geographers use today
• Looks at both Physical Geography, which covers natural environments and landscapes, and Human Geography, which investigates people and the cultural landscape, and explains the tensions and also the unity between the two areas of study
• Reveals how Geography can help solve major environmental and social issues

Readership: Of interest to students at both higher school level as well as undergraduate level, and teachers of Geography, and also the general reader interested in environmental and social issues around the world.

John A. Matthews, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Wales Swansea, and David T. Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Fellow of Swansea University

"Matthews and Herbert's book is written- as befits the VSI series- in an accessible prose style and is peppered with attractive and understandable images, graphs and tables." - geographical.

"The authors make an honest effort to represent the wide and diverse range of proffesional geographers' interests." - Geographical,

Preface
1: Geography: the World is our stage
2: The physical dimension: our natural environments
3: The human dimension: people in their places
4: Geography as a whole: the common ground
5: How geographers work
6: Geography's present and future
References
Further reading
Index