About Ron Johnston (geographer)
Ronald John Johnston, OBE, FAcSS, FBA (30 March 1941 – 29 May 2020) was a British geographer, known for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography. His broad scope is illustrated by the fact that he made extensive use of quantitative methods, while critically dealing with subjects of social and political relevance. Johnston authored or co-authored more than 50 books and 800 papers, and edited or co-edited a further more than 40 books (if translated and revised editions are counted separately). He edited The Dictionary of Human Geography and for the first four editions was its main editor. In 1981, the first edition of The Dictionary of Human Geography, to which Johnston contributed hundreds of articles, was published.
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