Provide a broad and authoritative overview and clarification of geographical concepts and subjects, schools of thought, and scholars in the field. Good starting places for discovering workable research topics. Exploit the bibliographies at the end of articles!
Over 6,400 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography.
“...offers a reasonably comprehensive and useful summary of the state of the discipline in the early 21st century...”
Encyclopedia of Human Geography
“…a diverse array of topics to offer a comprehensive and useful summary of the state of the discipline in the early 21st century…”
A Guide to Countries of the World (2016)
"Provides a wealth of up-to-date information on every country in the world, including dependent territories. Each entry provides a brief history of the country and outlines its political, economic, and social issues"
"... an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas ..."
SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge
G70 .S24 2011 “… a wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement.”
21st Century Geography : A Reference Handbook
G123 .A18 2012 2 vols. About 80 articles highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates in Geography today
