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How should geographers respond to a world which is changing fast - perhaps faster than ever before? This book addresses this question, bringing together ten geographers to examine both changes in the contemporary world and transformations within the discipline of geography.

This volume of especially commissioned essays explores the geography of, and the role of geography in, national and proto--national identity. Place and national identity are bound together. Attachment to the one is almost always inseparable from the sense of the other.

By viewing urban landscapes in relation to the individuals and organizations responsible for their creation, this book aims to proveide a crucial missing dimension to urban landscape history and an insight into the dynamics of contemporary urban change.

Explores and explains the evolution, occurrence and composition of wetlands and their physical and biological dynamics; considers the impact upon them of agriculture, industry, urbanization and recreation; and examines what steps are being and should be taken to manage and to preserve them.

More than ten years into the debate, this collection of original essays seeks to assess both the impact and state of the debate around postmodernism and the spatial social sciences. It seeks to demonstrate the diversity of interpretations that has come about by the mutual discovery of postmodern discourses and human geography since the mid 1980s.

* The worlda s leading geographical theorists focus on the interactions of space, difference, culture and identity* A unique synthesis of social and spatial theory* Locks into current debates on gender, marginality and discourse, and brings a welcome perspective on realities of experience and everyday life. .

A volume celebrating the work of the twentieth centurya s leading geographer should in itself be an event of importance for the discipline. This book lives up to that ambition, for in its quality, breadth and originality it reflects the attributes of the man it honours.