Human geography in action
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Human geography in action
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Description
Includes a variety of research methods both quantitative and qualitative. Hands-on activities help readers experience human geography as an active, practical field of study and application.
Table of Contents
- 1. True Maps, False Impressions: Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps
- 2. Layers of Tradition: Culture Regions at Different Scales
- 3. Tracking the AIDS epidemic: Diffusion Through Space and Time
- 4. Newton's First Law of Migration: The Gravity Model
- 5. India's Hidden Momentum: Population Pyramids and the Demographic Transition
- 6. Help Wanted - The Changing Geography of Jobs (No CD Component)
- 7. Rags and Riches: The Dimensions of Development (No CD Component
- 8. Your Daily Bread: Agriculture and Land Use Change in the Global Economy
- 9. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy
- 10. Reading the Urban Landscape: Census Data and Field Observation (contains a new CD-based Virtual Field Trip)
- 11. The Disappearing Front Range: The Growth of Cities
- 12. Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
- 13. The Rise of Nationalism and the fall of Yugoslavia: Nations, States, Ethnonationalism, and Irredentism (No CD Component)
- 14. Human Impact on the Environment
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