Human geography : culture, society, and space
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Human geography : culture, society, and space
Wiley, c2003
7th ed
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Authoritatively written by a geographer who has worked on every continent, Human Geography is sensitive to people of other cultures and from all walks of life. Focuses on key geographic concepts and puts them in practical and current perspective. Key issues that readers often have strong opinions about are identified and placed in geographical perspective which may often change readers views and opinions on the issues and problems.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENT. Introduction: Geography and Human Geography. Cultures, Environments, and Regions. The Earth as Humanity's Home. PART TWO: POPULATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES. Fundamentals of Population Geography. Processes and Cycles of Population Change. Migration and Its Causes. Routes of Human Mobility. PART THREE: THE GLOBAL LINGUISTIC MOSAIC. A Geography of Language. The Diffusion of Languages. Modern Language Mosaics. PART FOUR: THE GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGION. The Origin and Distribution of Religions. Religions: Location, Diffusion, and Cultural Landscape. Religion, Culture and Conflict. PART FIVE: LAND AND LAND USE IN THE RURAL SECTOR. Livelihoods of Rural People. Rural Settlement Forms. Commercial Agriculture. PART SIX: THE URBANIZING WORLD. Civilization and Urbanization. Urbanization and Location. Urban Pattern and Structure. Changing Cities in a Changing World. PART SEVEN: THE GEOGRAPHY OF MODERN ECONOMIC CHANGE. Concepts of Development. Industrial Activity and Geographic Location. World Industrial Regions. Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Service Sector. PART EIGHT: THE POLITICAL IMPRINT. Political Culture and the Evolving State. State Organization and National Power. Multinationalism on the Map. PART NINE: SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MODERN WORLD. A Geography of Nutrition. Spatial Patterns of Health and Disease. Geographies of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity. Gender and the Geography of Inequality. PART TEN: COPING WITH A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. Human Alteration of the Physical Environment. Confronting Human--Induced Global Environmental Change. Policy Responses to Demographic Changes. Toward a New World Order? The Changing Global Political Landscape. Resources. Index.
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