Language English Pages 8,250 pp. Originally published August 2009 Publisher Elsevier Subject Geography | Publication date August 2009 OCLC 297799521 Genre Encyclopedia Editors Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift | |
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Media type Print (hardback) and online ISBN 978-0-08-044911-1 (print)
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The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is a 2009 academic reference work covering human geography. The editors-in-chief are Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift and it contains a foreword by Mary Robinson.
Controversy
The development of the encyclopedia has been subject to episodic controversy resulting from the involvement of a subsidiary of Elsevier's parent company Reed Elsevier – called Spearhead Exhibitions – in the defence exhibition industry. Following a high-profile campaign coordinated on the crit-geog-forum mailing list and focused specifically on a perceived conflict of interest between the arms trade and academic publishing, on June 1, 2007 Reed Elsevier announced that it would be exiting the business during the second half of that year.