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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this supplement:

Course image: CIFOR in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence.

Map 1 Image produced by: getmapping.com PLC, tel. 01252 845444, http://www.getmapping.com

Map 2 extract from Ordnance Survey (Six Inch Map) (1835) Permit No. MP001200

Map 4 © The Economist, London, 23–29 October 1999

Map 5 Gould, P. and White, R. (1974) Mental Maps. ‘How Londoners see the North – at least, according to the Doncaster and District Development Council’, courtesy of B. Urquhart.

Andrew Turner

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