Publisher's Synopsis
This work provides students of human geography with an essential collection of writings. The contributions are written by international scholars and present a wide-ranging and accessible overview of the field. The authors provide the reader with an understanding of the tradition of geographic research in all the relevant topics of economic geography whilst focusing on the developments of the last 20 years. All the entries provide critical assessments of the state of the field and highlight the contribution of each approach to an understanding of economic geography.;The book explains the competing approaches to the study of economic geography; introduces the geographic study of economic processes; and provides geographic perspectives on economic change, examining relations between humans and the environment, the construction of place and the space of flows between places via commodity trade, capital flows, migration and transportation. The volume concludes with a chapter on scale, addressing globalization and localization.
