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." 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".^[4][5]

Awards

• 1926 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]

Works

• "The earliest map of Galena, Illinois" Wisconsin Magazine Of History. Volume: 23 /Issue: 1 (1939–1940) ^[7]
• 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 ^[8]

See also

Trewartha climate classification

References

External links

• "Booknotes", American Sociological Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jun., 1945), pp. 452–456
• Forum: Fifty years since Trewartha: The Past, Present, and Future of Population Geography
• Hartshorne, R. and Borchert, J. (1988), Glenn T. Trewartha, 1896–1984. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78: 728–735. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1988.tb00245.x