Geography Awareness

Geography encompasses the study of earth’s land, biodiversity, environment, natural resources and the interactions between those components. Having an adequate knowledge of geography allows us to better understand the world we live in. 

Geography Awareness Week was proclaimed in 1989 to encourage the study of geography, and it is celebrated each year during the third week of November. This year, Geography Awareness Week is observed during the week of November 16-20.

The following ebooks can help you find out more about some of the different aspects of geography:

• A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World (by John Pickles)
• Diasporas : Concepts, Intersections, Identities (by Jeffrey Lesser et al.)
• National Geographic Answer Book: 10,001 Fast Facts About Our World
• On Sea Ice (by Willy Weeks and W. D. Hibler)
• Place: A Short Introduction (by Tim Cresswell)
• Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (by Julie Michelle Klinger)
• Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relations (by Martin Knoll et al.)
• Sand: The Never-Ending Story (by Michael Welland)
• Science, Philosophy and Physical Geography (by Robert Inkpen and Graham Wilson)
• Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (by Andrew E. G. Jonas et al.)

To find essential information and key concepts about geography you may consult some of the reference resources from our library. The links below provide access to encyclopedias, dictionaries and other resources for background information:

• Encyclopedia Britannica 
• Credo Reference

For more online sources, go to our A-Z databases list.

[About the header image: “Desk globe on table” photo by Kyle Glenn has an open Unsplash license]