Geography, regions and concepts
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Geography, regions and concepts
Wiley, c1988
5th ed
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An introduction to world regional geography organized according to developed and less developed regions, this text provides an overview of the regional geography of the world, as well as basic systematic geography. It covers Europe, the Soviet Union, North America, Australia, Japan, Middle and South America, Africa, Southwest Asia, the Indian Perimeter, China, and Southeast Asia. Other material featured includes regional concepts and classification; culture and landscape; pleistocene influence; climate regions; water cycles; and soil distribution. Specifics of each region are also considered, such as population, politics, changing natural environment, and economics. Also discussed are urbanization, industrialization, environmental hazards and diseases, and more. Several indices and a glossary are featured.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION - DEVELOPED REGIONS: The Mosaic of Europe
- The Soviet Union: Region and Realm
- North America: The Postindustrial Transition
- UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS: Middle America: Collision of Cultures
- South America at the Crossroads
- North Africa and Southwest Asia
- African Worlds
- India and the Indian Perimeter
- China of the Four Modernizations
- Southeast Asia: Between the Giants
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Author, Subject, and Map Indexes
- Gazetteer.
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