The Geography of South Africa Contemporary Changes and New Directio
This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to ot
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Jasper Knight · Christian M. Rogerson Editors
The Geography of South Africa Contemporary Changes and New Directions
World Regional Geography Book Series Series Editor Eduardo F. J. De Mulder Haarlem, The Netherlands
What does Finland mean to a Finn, Sichuan to a Sichuanian, and California to a Californian? How are physical and human geographical factors reflected in their present-day inhabitants? And how are these factors interrelated? How does history, culture, socio-economy, language and demography impact and characterize and identify an average person in such regions today? How does that determine her or his well-being, behaviour, ambitions and perspectives for the future? These are the type of questions that are central to The World Regional Geography Book Series, where physically and socially coherent regions are being characterized by their roots and future perspectives described through a wide variety of scientific disciplines. The Book Series presents a dynamic overall and in-depth picture of specific regions and their people. In times of globalization renewed interest emerges for the region as an entity, its people, its landscapes and their roots. Books in this Series will also provide insight in how people from different regions in the world will anticipate on and adapt to global challenges as climate change and to supra-regional mitigation measures. This, in turn, will contribute to the ambitions of the International Year of Global Understanding to link the local with the global, to be proclaimed by the United Nations as a UN-Year for 2016, as initiated by the International Geographical Union. Submissions to the Book Series are also invited on the theme ‘The Geography of…’, with a relevant subtitle of the authors/editors choice. Proposals for the series will be considered by the Series Editor and International Editorial Board. This book series is published in cooperation with the International Geographical Union (IGU). The IGU is an international, non-governmental, professional organization devoted to the development of the discipline of Geography. The purposes of the IGU are primarily to promote Geography through initiating and coordinating geographical research and teaching in all countries of the world. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13179
Jasper Knight • Christian M. Rogerson Editors
The Geography of South Africa Contemporary Changes and New Directions
Editors Jasper Knight School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
Christian M. Rogerson School of Tourism and Hospitality University of Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa
ISSN 2363-9083 ISSN 2363-9091 (electronic) World Regional Geography Book Series ISBN 978-3-319-94973-4 ISBN 978-3-319-94974-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94974-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018953049 © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019, corrected publication 2019 This work is subject to copyright
