Geography: why it matters

Today, the physical and social composition of the world is changing at an unprecedented pace, as a result of rising sea levels, deforestation, species extinction, rapid urbanisation and mass migration.

Modern technologies have brought people from across the globe into contact with each other, with enormous political and cultural consequences.

As a subject concerned with how people, environments, and places are organised and interconnected, geography provides a critical window into where things happen, why they happen where they do, and how geographic context influences environmental processes and human affairs.

In this engrossing book, Alec Murphy explains why geography is so important to the current moment.

He invites readers to 'think geographically', casting a new light on familiar problems.