Chris Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 3752687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4791-8209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Blood Donation and Covid-19
In April 2020, in light of COVID-19-related blood shortages, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reduced the deferral period for men who have sex with men (MSM) from its previous duration of 1 year to 3 months. Although originally born out of necessity, the decades-old restrictions on MSM donors have been mitigated by significant advancements in HIV screening, treatment, and public education. The severity of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—an…
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
Over 10,000 entries A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation provides entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment—its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. Covering subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, this is the ideal reference for students of environment and conservation, as well as for professionals in the field
New Variant PhD
Since the early twentieth century the PhD has been the research degree of choice in the UK, but traditional ideas and practices relating to the degree are now being challenged. This paper sketches out the main drivers of change and explores the main challenges confronting doctoral study within the UK. It explains why there is a need for a wholesale revision of assumptions and expectations about what the PhD is, and it charts the genesis and evolu…
Faith in Conservation
Engaging Students in the Learning Process
This paper explores the usefulness of the learning journal as a means of actively engaging students in the learning process, based on a case study of a third-year undergraduate geography course. After briefly reviewing the literature on journal writing in different contexts, the paper outlines the approach adopted in the new geography course, in which students were given guidelines on how to write a journal that would be assessed as part of the c…
In Other (People's) Words
This paper reviews the literature on plagiarism by students, much of it based on North American experience, to discover what lessons it holds for institutional policy and practice within institutions of higher education in the UK. It explores seven themes: the meaning and context of plagiarism, the nature of plagiarism by students, how do students perceive plagiarism, how big a problem is student plagiarism, why do students cheat, what challenges…
Sacred Worlds
This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case stu…
The Environment
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and environment interact. Focusing particularly on the environmental impacts of human activities, the book explains the ways in which an understanding of basic physical principles can help us to use the environment and its resources.Three particular approaches are…
Environmental management
This sacred Earth; Religion, nature environment
Arguing for atheism
Social aspects of sustainable dryland management
The Tropical Rain Forest
Environment, growth and development
Reflections on the role of textbooks in the undergraduate teaching of physical geography in the British university tradition
The Fontana history of the environmental sciences
The land use, ecology and conservation of broadland
Resource management in developing countries
Soviet environmental policies and practices; the most critical investment
The biogeography of the British Isles; an introduction
World resources 1987 and 1988–89
Conservation and practical morality
The Lake District National Park (Countryside commission official guide)
Seeing green
Landscape ecology
In Other (People's) Words
This paper reviews the literature on plagiarism by students, much of it based on North American experience, to discover what lessons it holds for institutional policy and practice within institutions of higher education in the UK. It explores seven themes: the meaning and context of plagiarism, the nature of plagiarism by students, how do students perceive plagiarism, how big a problem is student plagiarism, why do students cheat, what challenges…
New Variant PhD
Since the early twentieth century the PhD has been the research degree of choice in the UK, but traditional ideas and practices relating to the degree are now being challenged. This paper sketches out the main drivers of change and explores the main challenges confronting doctoral study within the UK. It explains why there is a need for a wholesale revision of assumptions and expectations about what the PhD is, and it charts the genesis and evolu…
Engaging Students in the Learning Process
This paper explores the usefulness of the learning journal as a means of actively engaging students in the learning process, based on a case study of a third-year undergraduate geography course. After briefly reviewing the literature on journal writing in different contexts, the paper outlines the approach adopted in the new geography course, in which students were given guidelines on how to write a journal that would be assessed as part of the c…
The Fontana history of the environmental sciences
Landscape ecology
The Environment
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and environment interact. Focusing particularly on the environmental impacts of human activities, the book explains the ways in which an understanding of basic physical principles can help us to use the environment and its resources.Three particular approaches are…
This sacred Earth; Religion, nature environment
Environment, growth and development
Reflections on the role of textbooks in the undergraduate teaching of physical geography in the British university tradition
The land use, ecology and conservation of broadland
Resource management in developing countries
Environment and health
Conservation in perspective
Landscape ecology
The geography of rural resources
Seeing green
The Lake District National Park (Countryside commission official guide)
Conservation and practical morality
World resources 1987 and 1988–89
Soviet environmental policies and practices; the most critical investment
The biogeography of the British Isles; an introduction
The land use, ecology and conservation of broadland
Resource management in developing countries
The Fontana history of the environmental sciences
Environment, growth and development
Reflections on the role of textbooks in the undergraduate teaching of physical geography in the British university tradition
This sacred Earth; Religion, nature environment
Arguing for atheism
Social aspects of sustainable dryland management
The Tropical Rain Forest
Environmental management
The Environment
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and environment interact. Focusing particularly on the environmental impacts of human activities, the book explains the ways in which an understanding of basic physical principles can help us to use the environment and its resources.Three particular approaches are…
Sacred Worlds
This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case stu…
Engaging Students in the Learning Process
This paper explores the usefulness of the learning journal as a means of actively engaging students in the learning process, based on a case study of a third-year undergraduate geography course. After briefly reviewing the literature on journal writing in different contexts, the paper outlines the approach adopted in the new geography course, in which students were given guidelines on how to write a journal that would be assessed as part of the c…
In Other (People's) Words
This paper reviews the literature on plagiarism by students, much of it based on North American experience, to discover what lessons it holds for institutional policy and practice within institutions of higher education in the UK. It explores seven themes: the meaning and context of plagiarism, the nature of plagiarism by students, how do students perceive plagiarism, how big a problem is student plagiarism, why do students cheat, what challenges…
Faith in Conservation
Geography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Biology (4 works)