Geographers for last few decades are devoting a great deal of energy to the special distribution of natural and human resources, their use, under use and misuse. ‘Perspectives in Economic Geography’ has been devoted to the various aspects of Economic Geography. Based an eight volumes, this section includes Economic Geography, Resource Geography, Agricultural Geography, Industrial Geography, Urban  Geography, Transport Geography, Medical Geography and Geography of  Hazards. The papers included in these volumes explore in greater details the contribution of resources and economic sectors in the development of various economic systems and economic landscapes. The historical evolution of the world economic system, the agricultural typology, the distribution and utilization of mineral and energy resources, industries and their locations and the geography of international business and trade have been adequately highlighted. The last two volumes of this section have been devoted to Medical Geography and Geography of Hazards as they affect the Socio-Economic Development of the macro and micro regions and their economic activities.
Since a great variety of topics covering the economic aspects of human societies have been discussed, it is hoped that the work shall be of immense help to the planners policy makers, regional planners, students, teachers, and experts of environmental protection and management.

The geography of man’s struggle to make a living or Economic Geography is one of the most important sub-disciplines of Geography. It concerns itself with the production, use and reproduction of the social and material conditions of man’s existence. The economic process is inseparable from cultural and social structure and therefore the levels and nature of development have to be examined in the physics-historical and cultural back-ground. Now a day’s geographers are establishing causal connections between the process of development and under-development. Enormous literature has been produced in the field of Economic Geography.
The present book based on twenty research papers written by the leading experts of Economic Geography has been prepared to examine the growth and development of this sub-discipline; Theory and Practice of Economic Geography; Agricultural Systems of the World; Approaches to the Study of Territorial Structure; Economic Regionalization. There are a few papers based on empirical studies; products and processes, the supply and market context, the labor costs, employment growth, problems associated with plant closure, collective consumption and the Basic Economic Regions.
There is substantial transformation in the literature produced in the pre and post Second world War periods. It is hoped the difference may be clearly understood by going through the cogently and lucidly written papers embodied in this volume. It also provides a comprehensive and critical commentary upon the recent trends in Economic Geography. The book is commended to the teachers and students of geography to give then and in-depth knowledge of the nature scope and constraints of Economic Geography.

In the man and environment relationship, resource and technology are the two very vital concepts. A resource has been defined as any means of attaining given ends. A resource satisfies human needs. Resources found on the earth have been classified on the basis of their origin into biotic and a biotic. The use, misuse and under use of these resources and the technology available to a social group are the main determinants of socio-economic development of the people of a region.
‘Resource Geography’ has been designed to provide the conceptual background, the methodology of the study of resource geography and the problems associated with their utilization and conservation. All the fourteen papers compiled in this volume are the pioneer contributors, contributed by the scholars of the developed and the developing countries. A wide variety of topics like Resource: concept and classification, exhaustible an dun-exhaustible resources, metallic and non-metallic resources,  resource use in various regions, policies, planning and interpretive practices at the national and local levels have been included in this book.
Written under the principles of brevity, clarity and lucidity in a cogent style, these papers will be of great help for those who are interested into the man-made cultural landscape, especially the agricultural and industrial mosaics of the developed and developing countries. The volume is commended for the teachers, scholars and students of geography in general and that of the economic geography in particular.

The study of the ways in which patterns of agricultural activity vary from place to place, involving both the description of those patterns and the attempt to explain them is known as agricultural geography.
The present book is an attempt to arrange the important papers of agricultural geographers which cover the aspects of nature and scope of agricultural geography; origin of agriculture, geo-climatic and socio-cultural constraints and agriculture patterns; land, labor and capital and the agricultural system of the world. Subsequently, paper pertaining to the models of agricultural location; the development of capitalism; approaches to soil study; land use and resource analysis; regional agricultural specialization and the problems in agricultural geography have been included. These topics  shall evoke interest among agricultural geographers and they will be better equipped to delineate the agricultural regions, the levels of agricultural development, especially in the developing countries of the world. It is also one of the objectives of this volume to invoke and to give an understanding to agricultural geographers about the preparation of agricultural models in relation to agricultural development and population change.
The papers, contributed by the eminent experts of agricultural geography have more than academic value for the teachers, students and land use planners alike. The book is commended for those who want to ascertain the changing agricultural landscape and the forces and processes which are bringing these changes.