France: A Geographical, Social and Economic Survey

1. General characteristics; Part I. The Natural Environment: 2. Relief; 3. Climate; 4. Soils; 5. Vegetation; 6. Hydrology and water supply; 7. The environment and environmental policies; Part II. People: 8. Population growth since the beginning of the nineteenth-century; 9. The changing distribution of urban and rural population; 10. Geographical mobility and migration; 11. Population structure; 12. Contrasting mentalities and civilisations; Part III. Actors and policies in the spatial structuring of France: 13. Administrative geography; 14. Political geography and geographical policies; 15. The ownership of land; 16. Agents of geographical change; Part IV. Resources, economic activity and economic enterprises: 17. Agriculture and its transformation since 1950; 18. Agricultural holdings; 19. Agricultural and forest production; 20. Types of agriculture and agricultural policy; 21. Non-energy mineral resources; 22. Energy resources; 23. The structure of industry; 24. Industrial location; 25. Industrial policies; 26. Industrial environments; 27. The tertiary sector; Part V. The Infrastructure of Spatial Interaction: 28. General characteristics of transport and communications networks; 29. The networks of transport and communications; 30. Transport policies; Part VI. Landscape and Environment in Rural France: 31. Old and new uses of rural space; 32. The built environment in rural France; 33. Rural landscapes; 34. Rural environments and rural planning; Part VII. The Urban Environment: 35. The urban system and its development; 36. Urban development since 1851; 37. Urban functions; 38. Urban landscapes; Part VIII. Conclusion: 39. The complexity of the geography of France; Bibliography; Index.