American geography and one non-American geographer

Award of Institute of Australian Geographers’ Australia‐International Medal

“…This approach came to dominate development geography within Australia and beyond (Rugendyke, 2005). Reflecting recently on his own work, Brookfield wrote that his abiding concern was the ‘… adaptation of the use and management of land to variability and change in society, economy and natural environment’; this he called the ‘soul’ of geography (Brookfield, 2004, 40).…”