Glenn Thomas Trewartha

Glenn Thomas Trewartha (1896 – 1984)[1] was an American geographer of Cornish American descent.[2]

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a Ph.D. in 1924. He taught at the University of Wisconsin.[3]

He gave an address to the Association of American Geographers, "A Case for Population Geography", in which he argued that "fundamentally geography is anthropecentric, and if such is the case, that numbers, densities and qualities of the population provide the essential background for all geography. Population provide the essential background for all geography. Population is the point of reference from which all other elements are observed, and from which they all singly and collectively derive significance and meaning".[4] He also wrote about climate, explaining that the atmosphere was like "a pane of glass in a greenhouse... thus maintaining surface temperatures considerably higher than they otherwise would be."[5][6]

Awards

Works
  • "The earliest map of Galena, Illinois" Wisconsin Magazine Of History. Volume: 23 /Issue: 1 (1939–1940) [8]
  • A Reconnaissance geography of Japan, University of Wisconsin, 1934
  • Elements of geography physical and cultural, Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Vernor Clifford Finch, Mc Graw-Hill, 1942
  • Japan, a physical, cultural and regional geography, University of Wisconsin press, 1945
  • An introduction to climate, McGraw-Hill, 1954
  • Japan, a geography, Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin press, 1965
  • An introduction to climate McGraw-Hill, 1968
  • The More developed realm: a geography of its population, Editor Glenn Thomas Trewartha, Pergamon Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-08-020631-8
  • The Earth's problem climates, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-299-08230-7 [9]

See also

Trewartha climate classification

References
  1. "Wisconsin history:an annotated bibliography," Barbara Dotts Paul and Justus F. Paul, 1988, pg. 12
  2. Rowse, A. L. The Cousin Jacks, The Cornish in America
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Trewartha, G. T. (1953). A case for population geography. Annals of the Association of American geographers, 43(2), 71-97.(page 83)
  5. "Global Warming: From Theory to Fact". NPR.org. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  6. "Climate Change: Listeners' Questions". NPR.org. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2010-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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