Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Studies

Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, this seventh edition of Making Sense in Geography and the Environmental Sciences is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline.

Author: Margot Northey

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ISBN: 0199026807

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Page: 328

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Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, this seventh edition of Making Sense in Geography and the Environmental Sciences is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline. Maintaining the signature straightforward style of the series, this fullyupdated edition outlines general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such issues as writing essays and reports, creating powerful visual aids, and properly documenting sources.
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Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences

This text is a clear and concise guide to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate studies.

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher: OUP Canada

ISBN: 0195445821

Category: Science

Page: 320

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This text is a clear and concise guide to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate studies. Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences is intended for students in any geography or environmental science course containing research/writing components.
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Making Sense

Designed specifically for geography and environmental science students, this book outlines the basic principles of grammar, punctuation, usage, and documentation.

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

ISBN: STANFORD:36105110176844

Category: Science

Page: 252

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Designed specifically for geography and environmental science students, this book outlines the basic principles of grammar, punctuation, usage, and documentation. In addition, it provides detailed guidance on: the research process; note-taking; lab and field work; visual aids (figures, tables,posters, and maps); presentations; proposals, research papers, and theses; examinations; computers and the Internet; weights, measurements, and notation. New to this edition is a greater attention throughout the book to the role of computers in the various forms of writing; additional material onthe use of libraries; new information on the use of the Internet and other computer-based resources for research; and new material on the use of visual aids.
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Making Sense

Concise and accessible, with new information on technology-based research, this latest edition continues to be an invaluable resource for students throughout their academic careers and beyond."--Publisher's description.

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1194418331

Category: English language

Page: 327

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"Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, Making Sense in Geography and the Environmental Sciences, Fifth Edition, is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline. Maintaining the signature straightforward style of the series, the fifth edition outlines the general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such issues as writing essays and reports, creating powerful visual aids, and properly documenting sources. Concise and accessible, with new information on technology-based research, this latest edition continues to be an invaluable resource for students throughout their academic careers and beyond."--Publisher's description.
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Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences

Outlining the basic principles of grammar, punctuation, usage, style and documentation this student text offers guidance on writing lecture, reading and field notes, book and lab reports, presentations, proposals and research papers.

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher:

ISBN: 0199010226

Category: English language

Page: 328

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Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, this sixth edition of Making Sense in Geography and the Environmental Sciences is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline. Maintaining the signature straightforward style of the series, this fullyupdated edition outlines general principles of style, grammar, and usage, while covering such issues as writing essays and reports, creating powerful visual aids, and properly documenting sources.
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Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science

Statistics are important tools for validating theory, making predictions and engaging in policy research.

Author: Richard Harris

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317904397

Category: Science

Page: 280

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Statistics are important tools for validating theory, making predictions and engaging in policy research. They help to provide informed commentary about social and environmental issues, and to make the case for change. Knowledge of statistics is therefore a necessary skill for any student of geography or environmental science. This textbook is aimed at students on a degree course taking a module in statistics for the first time. It focuses on analysing, exploring and making sense of data in areas of core interest to physical and human geographers, and to environmental scientists. It covers the subject in a broadly conventional way from descriptive statistics, through inferential statistics to relational statistics but does so with an emphasis on applied data analysis throughout.
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Making Sense

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

ISBN: UCSC:32106019286258

Category: Social Science

Page: 252

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This concise guide is essential for any undergraduate student enrolled in engineering and the technical sciences. Making Sense examines the core elements of effective writing - style, grammar, punctuation, and usage - while providing guidelines and examples of five major reference styles. Thetext also affords excellent coverage of such issues as how to prepare proposals and project reports, how to write lab reports, and how to incorporate diagrams and other graphics into written work. The second edition includes new material on evaluating Internet sources and avoiding plagiarism.
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Making Sense of Health Disease and the Environment in Cross Cultural History The Arabic Islamic World China Europe and North America

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment ...

Author: Florence Bretelle-Establet

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030190828

Category: Science

Page: 378

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This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health. The feeling and/or the observation that the natural environment can have effects on human health have been, and are still commonly shared throughout the world. This led us to raise the issue of the links observed and believed to exist between human beings and the natural environment in a broad chronological and geographical framework. In this investigation, we bring the reader from ancient and late imperial China to the medieval Arab world up to medieval, modern, and contemporary Europe. This book does not examine these relationships through the prism of the knowledge of our modern contemporary European experience, which, still too often, leads to the feeling of totally different worlds. Rather, it questions protagonists who, in different times and in different places, have reflected, on their own terms, on the links between environment and health and tries to obtain a better understanding of why these links took the form they did in these precise contexts. This book targets an academic readership as well as an “informed audience”, for whom present issues of environment and health can be nourished by the reflections of the past.
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Landscapes in Music

Music and Cultural Geography. Waterloo ... "Music and Environment: An
Investigation of Some of the Spatial Aspects of Production, Diffusion, and
Consumption of Music.” Canadian ... Making Sense: Geography and
Environmental Sciences.

Author: David B. Knight

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 9781461638599

Category: Science

Page: 256

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Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and space; waterscapes; mythic spaces; extreme landscapes; and realms of death, survival, and remembrance. Orchestral works are rarely perceived in geographical terms, but the author, himself an accomplished geographer and musician, offers a deeply satisfying approach to interpreting and appreciating a wide range of music. Comparing classic masterworks from Europe and Russia alongside more recent compositions from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and China, this innovative study offers a fresh understanding of the links between music and the worlds around us.
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Making Sense of Cities

The book is written in a fresh and engaging stlye, and is fully illustrated throughout. It is designed to appeal to any student of the urban and will be essential to students of geography, urban studies, town planning and land economy.

Author: Blair Badcock

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781444118803

Category: Science

Page: 288

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In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing urbanization shows no sign of slowing and the third millennium looks set to be an unprecedentedly urban one. 'Making Sense of Cities' provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It offers students a sense of the patterns and processess of urbanization and the spatial organisation of cities, recognizing the significance of globalization, economics, politics and culture from a range of perspectives. Above all, it seeks to provide a relevant approach, inviting students to engage with competing theories of the urban and to assess them against the background of their own opinions and personal experience. Examples and case studies are drawn from a range of international settings, from San Francisco to Shanghai, Sydney to Singapore, giving a genuinely global coverage. The book is written in a fresh and engaging stlye, and is fully illustrated throughout. It is designed to appeal to any student of the urban and will be essential to students of geography, urban studies, town planning and land economy.
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Human Geography

This new edition retains the strengths of earlier editions while incorporating new research and statistical data throughout.

Author: William Norton

Publisher: Ingram

ISBN: 0195432606

Category:

Page: 658

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Now packaged with a FREE writing guide! This market-leading overview of human geography introduces students not only to the field's core concepts and methodologies but also to its history, showing how the discipline has evolved and continues to develop in response to new findings and perspectives. Written and developed with passion andintegrity, Human Geography is an extension of Bill Norton's commitment to education and his students. This new edition retains the strengths of earlier editions while incorporating new research and statistical data throughout. A key feature of the sixth edition is expanded coverage of urbangeography, urbanization and its effects, and economic globalization. As an added feature, the text now comes packaged with a free copy of the writing guide Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences, fourth edition by Northey, Knight, and Draper.
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Making Sense of Nature

Environment and Planning A, 33 (2), 161–179. Robbins, P., 2001b. Tracking
invasive ... Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 27 (4), 371–384.
Roof, J., 2007. ... Sarewitz, D., 2004. How science makes environmental
controversies ...

Author: Noel Castree

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134613908

Category: Nature

Page: 376

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We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our dependence on various communities allowing our thoughts, sentiments and activities to be unduly governed by others? Making Sense of Nature shows that what we call ‘nature’ is made sense of for us in ways that make it central to social order, social change and social dissent. By utilising insights and extended examples from anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, philosophy, politics, sociology, science studies, this interdisciplinary text asks whether we can better make sense of nature for ourselves, and thus participate more meaningfully in momentous decisions about the future of life – human and non-human – on the planet. This book shows how ‘nature’ can be made sense of without presuming its naturalness. The challenge is not so much to rid ourselves of the idea of nature and its ‘collateral concepts’ (such as genes) but instead, we need to be more alert to how, why and with what effects ideas about ‘nature’ get fashioned and deployed in specific situations. Among other things, the book deals with science and scientists, the mass media and journalists, ecotourism, literature and cinema, environmentalists, advertising and big business. This innovative text contains numerous case studies and examples from daily life to put theory and subject matter into context, as well as study tasks, a glossary and suggested further reading. The case studies cover a range of topics, range from forestry in Canada and Guinea, to bestiality in Washington State, to how human genetics is reported in Western newspapers, to participatory science experiments in the UK. Making Sense of Nature will empower readers from a wide range of fields across the social sciences, humanities and physical sciences.
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Who Speaks for the Climate

Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks ...

Author: Maxwell T. Boykoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781139501798

Category: Political Science

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The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic mix of influences – from internal workings of mass media such as journalistic norms, to external political, economic, cultural and social factors – shape what becomes a climate 'story'. Providing a bridge between academic considerations and real world developments, this book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public make sense of media reporting on climate change as it explores 'who speaks for climate' and what effects this may have on the spectrum of possible responses to contemporary climate challenges.
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Current Geographical Publications

Author: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Library

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015079909589

Category: Geography

Page:

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Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.
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Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science

geography. Chapter. overview. The aim of this chapter is to convince you that
studying statistics is a good idea for any student of geography, environmental
science or geographical information science. ... But, they are important tools for
validating theory, making predictions, helping to make sense of the world,
engaging in policy research, offering informed commentary about social and
environmental ...

Author: Richard Harris

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317904403

Category: Science

Page: 280

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Statistics are important tools for validating theory, making predictions and engaging in policy research. They help to provide informed commentary about social and environmental issues, and to make the case for change. Knowledge of statistics is therefore a necessary skill for any student of geography or environmental science. This textbook is aimed at students on a degree course taking a module in statistics for the first time. It focuses on analysing, exploring and making sense of data in areas of core interest to physical and human geographers, and to environmental scientists. It covers the subject in a broadly conventional way from descriptive statistics, through inferential statistics to relational statistics but does so with an emphasis on applied data analysis throughout.
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Making Sense

Geographic Technologies, Planning, and Strategic Action Richard Jacob
Jonasse ... ( often in an ad hoc manner ) on sociology here , demography there ,
or meteorology and environmental sciences somewhere else ( Roweis , 1983 ) .
Unless ...

Author: Richard Jacob Jonasse

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSD:31822029623782

Category: Cartography

Page: 554

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Making Sense in Engineering and the Technical Sciences Making Sense in Engineering and the Technical Sciences

Author: Margot Northey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: UCSD:31822039378278

Category: Reference

Page: 273

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This text is a clear and concise guide to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate studies. Making Sense in Engineering and the Technical Sciences is intended for students in any engineering or computer science course containing research/writing components.
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