He was frequently more a historian than a geographer and wrote what has come to be known as a geographical interpretation of history.
Bradley L Garrett is cultural geographer at the University of Southampton and the author of Explore Everything: Place-hacking the City and Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital.
"Slum-dwellers occupying low-lying precarious land are the most vulnerable to environmental stresses and flooding events," says urban geographer Colin McFarlane, who has studied water and sanitation issues in the worst-hit slums towards the west and east of the city.
A 2008 paper by medical geographer Rais Akhtar and environmental epidemiologist Sari Kovats spells out the dubious gifts that climate-change exacerbated heat is likely to bring Asian cities.
Professor Charles Pattie, a geographer at Sheffield University who has studied constituencies and their consequences, says that there is ample evidence that the current system does favour Labour, but that it happened by accident not design and that size of electorate is not the only factor.
John Salt, a geographer at University College London, reckons it is the biggest influx in British history, at least in gross terms (immigration by French Huguenots in the 17th century may have been bigger relative to the population at the time).
He was a man with a vast range of interests, a travel-writer, an anthropologist, a geographer who speculated about the sources of the Nile and to some extent a writer of fiction.
It placed the job firmly in the domain of the geographer, who could use astronomy and mathematics to calculate from the stars what the world looked like below.In this section Eat up The mighty coin The writer and the spy Tall tale Beguiling carnivores Views of the world ReprintsPtolemy's "Geography" was an attempt to take myths out of maps.
The remainder could be dangerously concentrated with pollutants, says Habib Ayeb, a French geographer working in Cairo.
It's as simple as that," argues Ariovaldo de Oliveira, a geographer at the University of São Paulo.Perhaps so, but for the president matters are more complicated.
That was indeed what it did when the geographer Martin Waldseemüller gave us the word in 1507.
