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RR 2014/116 A Dictionary of Human Geography Noel Costree, Rob Kitchen and Alisdair Rogers Oxford University Press Oxford 2013 [iii] + 586 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 959986 8 £12.99 $18.95 Oxford Paperback Reference
Keywords Dictionaries, Geography, Human geography
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-11-2013-0289
What is human geography? This is an interesting question, and this new addition to the Oxford Paperback Reference series of dictionaries has an entry which explains what it is. It is any aspect of geography that involves humans, and any aspect of humans that can be treated geographically. It is closely related to the humanities and overlaps with anthropology and sociology. A number of subfields such as cultural geography, health geography and transport geography are mentioned in the definition and each of these has its own entry. There is also coverage of other geographies, some of which have quite lengthy entries, like physical geography. The entry just after that for Human Geography is for a book; Human Geography: A Welfare Approach. There are many references to books which lay out a particular approach to a problem. There are also many entries for named geographers. These are, to a large extent, entries for living people who have made a specific approach to aspects of...