Geography databases
These are key databases for the study of human and physical geography. See the Education Guide for educational resources.
- Academic Search CompleteLarge, multi-disciplinary, full text and index database. Includes peer-reviewed journals and other publications such as books, reports and conference proceedings.
- Environment CompleteCitation and full text database for journals, books and conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education. Subjects covered include: agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.
- GreenFILE
An open access, full text database which covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. It includes scholarly, government and general interest sources and covers topics such as global warming, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
- InformitLarge collection of multiple Australian research databases in the education, research and business sectors. Includes full text, indexes and abstracts to journals, books, conference proceedings and other research material.
- ProQuest ABI/INFORM CollectionFull text journal articles from key business and economic journals, news sources and industry reports, providing insight into companies and business trends around the world.
- ScopusA large multidisciplinary abstract and citation database from peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences (including arts and humanities) fields.
- SocINDEX with Full TextAcademic journals, abstracts, books and conference papers. Has content relevant to human geography and migration.
- Taylor and Francis OnlineFull-text journal articles published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge. Includes journals in the fields of social science, humanities, science, technology, and medicine.
- Web of Science Core Collection
Scholarly literature in the fields of science and technology, social science, and arts and humanities. Includes citation searching and metrics. Citations extend as far back as 1900. Includes journal articles, conferences, patents and books.
- KanopySearch this video database for documentaries and TV programs related to geography.
- InformitInformit provides access to the video database EduTV. Find videos related to physical geographical processes and human geography and more by entering your terms in the search box, choose Video and Sound from the Content Type drop-down menu, then look left to further refine results.
- ProQuest Australia & New Zealand Newsstream
Major Australian and New Zealand newspapers. It includes regional and rural radio transcripts and news from current affairs television programs such as the ABC 7.30 Report.
- Newspaper Source PlusFull text local and international newspapers. Australian papers include: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Australian, The Canberra Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. International include: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Times (UK), The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times.
Physical geography
The Demography of Disasters by Publication Date: 2020This book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations.
Energy Justice Across Borders by Publication Date: 2019This edited volume unites the fields of energy justice and comparative philosophy to provide an overarching global perspective and approach to applying energy ethics.
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe by Publication Date: 2020Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of 'natural' disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster?
Global Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change by Publication Date: 2019This book explores the link between climate change and resiliency on each continent of the world. It reviews how climate change affects populations, not only through environmental exposures and health outcomes, but how people live their lives. Zolnikov brings together a set of experts to offer a novel perspective on understanding climate change vulnerability alongside adaption measures being implemented.
21st Century Geography: a Reference Handbook by Publication Date: 2011Via approximately 80 entries or ''mini-chapters,'' the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on geography will highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates. The purpose is to provide undergraduates with an authoritative reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries.
The Dictionary of Physical Geography by Publication Date: 2016This fully-revised comprehensive fourth edition covers the whole field of physical geography including climate and atmosphere, geomorphology, biogeography, hydrology, oceans, Quaternary, environmental change, soils, remote sensing and GIS. This new edition reflects developments in the discipline during the last decade, with the expert advisory group providing an international perspective on the discipline of physical geography.
Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights by Publication Date: 2020This major reference work is a single-volume Encyclopedia that consolidates existing knowledge about territorial rights with new developments in academic scholarship. It contains more than 500 entries which combine concepts and theoretical arguments with concise, up-to-the-minute, graphic summaries of practical disputes about immigration, natural resources, secession, minority rights, borders, restorative justice, Aboriginal rights, and other issues related to territory.
Encyclopedia of Geochemistry by Publication Date: 2018Over 300 international scientists, each experts in their specialties, have written over 330 separate topics on different aspects of geochemistry including geochemical thermodynamics and kinetics, isotope and organic geochemistry, meteorites and cosmochemistry, the carbon cycle and climate, trace elements, geochemistry of high and low temperature processes, and ore deposition.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography by Publication Date: 2018This book combines a collection of work and research within the new field of Critical Physical Geography, which gives critical attention to relations of social power with deep knowledge of a particular field of biophysical science. Critical Physical Geography research accords careful attention to biophysical landscapes and the power relations that have increasingly come to shape them, and to the politics of environmental science.
- Climate Data OnlineProvides a wide range of statistics, recent weather observations and climate data from the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology.
- Department of Environment and Energy (Australia)Good source for government publications and data (grey literature) relating to the environment. Links to other Australian Government websites.
- National Library of Australia MapsOver 600,000 maps from early European charts to current mapping of Australia all online and freely available to download.
- Geographical Society of New South WalesThe Society both engages and elevates geographical research, scholarship and education. The Society writes and encourages geographical submissions to appropriate authorities on environmental and social issues in Australia.
Human geography
Visualizing Human Geography: At home in a diverse world by Publication Date: 2018Newly revised, Visualizing Human Geography: At Home in a Diverse World, Third Edition maximizes the use of photographs, maps and illustrations to bring the colorful diversity of Human cultures, political systems, food production, and migration into the undergraduate classroom. Unique presentation of visuals facilitates reflection on the textual content of this text, providing a clear path to the understanding of key concepts.
Drawing in the Land: Rock Art the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin, New South Wales by Publication Date: 2019Drawing in the Land offers an important contribution to the field of rock art research and Australian archaeology. It provides a detailed study of the previously under-examined rock art of the Hawkesbury/Nepean area of New South Wales. The study presents a detailed historiography of Australian rock art research and, through the lens of landscape archaeology, offers an innovative contribution to rock art studies in the wider Sydney Basin.
The Ghost Cities of Australia by Publication Date: 2018This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century.
Urban Planning in the Digital Age by Publication Date: 2018Technological changes have often produced important social changes that translate into spatial and planning practice. Whereas the intelligent city is one of the unavoidable and even dominant concepts, digital uses can influence urban planning in four different directions.
Regenerative Urban Development, Climate Change and the Common Good by Publication Date: 2019This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research. This book brings together key thinkers in this field to develop a meaningful synthesis between the existing practice of regenerative development and the input of scholars in the social sciences.
Inside Smart Cities by Publication Date: 2018Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of cities around the globe. Inside Smart Cities provides real-world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional scales. .
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Publication Date: 2019International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors.
Human Geography by Publication Date: 2014This text is a clear and concise introduction to Human Geography, including its key concepts, seminal thinkers and their theories, contemporary debates, and celebrated case studies. Explores the significance of the rise, reign, and faltering of the West from around the fifteenth century in the shaping of the key demographic, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural processes active in the world.
The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and Its Islands by Publication Date: 2017This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, animals, people, and the environment in shaping the tropical Pacific.
- Australian geographical studies (Online)
Covers the professional geography of Australia and its Pacific, Asian and Antarctic neighbourhoods and on the nature, methods and study of geography, interpreted its widest sense. - Human Geography
Human Geography is broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. - Australian Planner
Australian Planner is Australia's leading peer reviewed journal for the planning profession. It is a forum for planning news, opinion and research and is the most read and influential planning journal in Australia and the Pacific Region. - Cultural Geographies (Online)
Cultural geographies is an international journal of peer-reviewed scholarly research on and theoretical interventions into the cultural dimensions of environment, landscape, space, and place. This journal encourages papers that engage the cultural politics of geographical issues. - Social and Cultural Geography (Online)Social & Cultural Geography publishes original, high caliber, scholarly articles on the spatialities of society and culture. Its articles are especially focused on space, place and nature in relation to social and/or cultural issues, including inequalities, poverty, housing, crime, work, and leisure; as well as everyday life, consumption, identity, community and neighbourhood (and their historic legacies).
- Journal of Cultural Geography
Since 1979 this journal has provided an international forum for scholarly research devoted to the spatial aspects of human groups, their activities, associated landscapes, and other cultural phenomena. - Progress in Human Geography
Progress in Environmental Geography aspires to be the peer-review journal of choice for those wanting to know about the state of the art in all areas of environmental geography research – philosophical, theoretical, thematic, methodological and empirical.
Teaching geography
Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach by Publication Date: 2019This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential. Expressed as 'GeoCapabilities', this concept draws on the the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum applied to curriculum thinking in schools.
The making of geography as a secondary school subject: a perspective from Australia by Publication Date: 2021This book contributes to the existing corpus of international research on the history of curriculum and particularly the history of geography as a senior secondary school subject. Much of it is based on primary sources, including the textbooks and atlases used, along with syllabus manuals and geography examination papers.
Frontiers in Geographical Teaching by Publication Date: 2019This work collects a series of essays delineating geographic concepts in terms of the philosophic underpinnings, assessment of the geomorphic system, climatology, and social economic and historical changing trends. Techniques are reviewed including quantitative methods for geomorphology and social geography, fieldwork both in urban areas and land-use surveys, and finally in physical planning.
Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography by Publication Date: 2018This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children′s world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. It covers all the key topics in primary geography including: understanding places physical and human geography environmental sustainability learning outside the classroom global issues citizenship and social justice.
Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Geography by Publication Date: 2017Teaching Primary Geography is a hands-on guide to planning and delivering primary lessons that will inspire your class and extend their knowledge in lively and effective ways. By providing a succinct and accessible overview to over 30 geographical topics, it meets the needs of practitioners across the country and provides a single reference point for informed and creative geography teaching.
- Geoscience AustraliaTeaching resources for primary and secondary education levels fun, interactive and relevant.
- Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social SciencesInformation on all areas of the Australian Curriculum. Content can be downloaded for use.
- Australian Geography Teachers AssociationFor geography educators of all levels with an interest in geography education in Australian schools. Includes curriculum and teaching resources.
- The Royal Geographical SocietyThe UK's professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
- Fieldwork in schoolsThe Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) provide advice, training and grants to support field research and scientific expeditions around the world.