Books in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography series

This Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.

The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking.

This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, while challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought. The text is organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussed.

This Companion provides a comprehensive account of health and medical geography and approaches the major themes and key topics from a variety of angles. Thematically organized sections offer detailed accounts of specific issues and combine general overviews of the current literature with case study material.

This Handbook is an essential reference and a guide to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. * Indispensable companion for students of the City.

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study.

* Introduces a wide-variety of crucial themes and developments in contemporary political geography * Contributions written by prominent scholars whose work has helped to shape the discipline and define directions for further research * Includes key debates and controversies at the cutting edge of the field.

This volume presents more than 30 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that provide a summary of the state of the art in environmental geography and look ahead to future research developments in the field.

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. * Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. * Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today.

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. * Indispensable companion for students of the City.

This companion presents a substantial survey of the active and vibrant field of political geography. The volume comprises specially written essays by prominent scholars from around the world and covers a wide variety of crucial themes in contemporary critical political geography.

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study.

The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography is an indispensable overview of the field. Unparalleled in scope and offering both historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography.

This companion presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding the sub-discipline of economic geography.

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.