A Tribute to Rob Potter: Eminent geographer and founding editor of Progress in Development Studies

摘要

My dear friend Rob Potter died of cancer this April at the age of 64. He earned distinction in several academic and public arenas. He was a talented human geographer, an innovative field researcher, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of development studies, a physical planning adviser to the Barbados government, a seasoned and extremely effective university administrator and an understanding and approachable educator and mentor.