`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students′ everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends′ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of BristolUsing statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it′s objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together.
Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context.
Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.
- ISBN10 0761941363
- ISBN13 9780761941361
- Publish Date 17 February 2005 (first published 1 February 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English