Geography
Featured Geography Title: A History of Climate Changes
First published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English climatologist Hubert Lamb.
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Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)
Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now
Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes
First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....
Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)
Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future
Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes
First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating...
Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)
A Book of Essays and Other Papers
Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes
First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world’s foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in the history of climatology. Hubert Lamb is able to provide a mature assessment of...
Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
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The Changing Climate (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Papers
Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes
First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H. Lamb, describe how climates come about and give a history of climatic changes from the last ice-age to the 1960s....
Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
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The Big Smoke (Routledge Revivals)
A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1987, Peter Brimblecombe's book provides an engaging historical account of air pollution in London, offering a fascinating insight into the development of air pollution controls against a changing social and economic background. He examines domestic and industrial pollution and...
Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Chernobyl (Routledge Revivals)
The Long Shadow
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are. It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation...
Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect
Series: Routledge Revivals
Historical geography has been a major area of activity in recent years. Much of the recent work and research findings have been extremely valuable to historians and archaeologists and as background to the study of contemporary geography. This reissue, first published in 1987, presents an overview...
Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in the major branches of the subject. It thereby...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals)
Applications to Urban and Regional Systems
Series: Routledge Revivals
Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of...
Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge

