Fundamentals of world regional geography
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Fundamentals of world regional geography
Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, c2010
2nd ed
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Includes index
"This edition is intended for use outside of the U.S. only, with content that may be different from the U.S. edition"--Back cover of International ed.
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Well respected for its profile chapter organization and complete and accurate coverage, FUNDAMENTALS OF WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, 2e, International Edition is now available in this concise Advantage Books format at a more affordable price! Specifically designed for the one-semester or one-quarter course, the text focuses on each region as a whole, emphasizing their roles in the world domain, while still exploring the critical subregional issues that make up each region's unique identity.
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. OBJECTIVES AND TOOLS OF WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY Welcome to World Regional Geography What Is Geography? The World Regional Approach to Geography The Objectives of This Book. The Language of Maps Scale Coordinate Systems Projections Symbolization Mental Maps. New Geographic Technologies and Careers Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing What Do Geographers Do for a Living? Insights Core Location and Peripheral Location. 2. PHYSICAL PROCESSES THAT SHAPE WORLD REGIONS. Geologic Processes and Landforms Plate Tectonics Major Landform Types. Patterns of Climate and Vegetation Precipitation Aridity Seasons Climate and Vegetation Types. Biodiversity The Importance of Biodiversity. The World's Oceans Why Should We Care about Oceans? Global Environmental Change Climate Change The Greenhouse effect The Effects of Global Warming What Can Be Done about Global Climate Change? Geography of Energy The Kyoto Protocol. 3. HUMAN PROCESSES THAT SHAPE WORLD REGIONS. Two Revolutions That Have Changed the Earth Hunting and Gathering The Revolutionary Aspects of Farming The Industrial Revolution Industrialization, Colonization, and Environmental Change. The Geography of Development Measuring Development Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? Environmental Impacts of Underdevelopment. The Geography of Population How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? How Can We Measure Population Changes? What Determines Family Size? What Determines Death Rates? What Determines Population Change Rate? Why Has the Human Population Exploded? The Age Structure Diagram Where Do We Live? The Geography of Migration How Many People Will Live on Earth? The Malthusian Scenario What Is Overpopulation? Addressing Global Problems The Death Rate Solution and Lifeboat Ethics The Birth Rate Solution and sustainable Development. Insights Globalization: The Process and the Backlash. Insights The Fuelwood Crisis. Insights The Second Law of Thermodynamics. 4. EUROPE. Area and Population Europe's Subregions Industrialization and the Development of Europe Why Is Europe's Population Declining? Physical Geography and Human Adaptations Why Is Europe So Warm? The Relationship of Human Settlement and Production to Europe's Varied Landscapes Diversity of Climate and Vegetation Rivers and Waterways. Cultural and Historical Geographies Linguistic and Ethnic Groups of Europe Europe's Religious Roots European Colonialism and Its Consequences. Economic Geography An Imbalance of Wealth Postindustrialization Land and Sea. Geopolitical Issues Postwar Europe The Cold War and Its Aftermath The European Union Size and Diversity of the European Union The Future Difference between Europeans and Americans. Regional Issues and Landscapes The European Core What Is the European Core? Great Britain and Ireland: Kingdom and Empire Unity and Devolution Paris as Primate City Divided and Reunified Germany Europe's Energy Alternatives The European Periphery What Is The European Periphery? Northern Europe Save the Whales...for Dinner Southern Europe The Basque Country North vs. South in Italy North vs. South in Cyprus Eastern Europe Wrenching Reforms in the Shatter Belt of Eastern Europe Why They Call It Balkanization The Roma.Insights Site and Situation. Regional Perspective Europe's Immigration Issues. Insights Devolution. Insights Genetically Modified Foods and Food Fights. 5. RUSSIA AND NEAR ABROAD. Area and Population. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations The Roles of Climate and Vegetation The Role of Rivers The Role of Topography. Cultural and Historical Geographies A Babel of Languages Vikings, Byzantines, and Tatars The Empire of the Russians Russia and the Soviet Union: Tempered by Revolution and War. Economic Geography The Communist Economic System Economic Roots of the Second Russian Revolution Russia's Period of Misdevelopment. Geopolitical Issues Within Russia Russia and the Near Abroad The Far Abroad. Regional Issues and Landscapes The Slavic Coreland Peoples and Resources of the Coreland Russia's Far East and Northern Lands A Strategic and Resource Treasure Trove The Caucasus A Cauldron of Inter-Ethnic Conflict Central Asia The Shrinking Aral Sea. Insights Regional Names of Russia and the Near Abroad. Insights The Russian Cross. The World's Great Rivers The Volga. Insights Russia and Other Land Empires. Geography of the Sacred Stalingrad. Problem Landscape Chechnya. Geography of Energy Oil in the Caspian Basin. Geographic Spotlight The Sex Trade. 6. THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. Area and Population. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations A Region of Stark Geographic Contrasts Villager, Pastoral Nomad, Urbanite The Village Way of Life The Pastoral Nomadic Way of Life The Urban Way of Life. Cultural and Historical Geographies The Promised Land of the Jews Christianity: Death and Resurrection in Jerusalem The Message of Islam. Economic Geography. Geopolitical Issues Chokepoints Access to Oil Access to Freshwater Terrorism. Regional Issues and Landscapes Israel & Palestine The Arab-Israeli Conflict Arabs and Jews: The Demographic Dimension Land for Peace Flashpoint Lebanon Egypt and the Sudan The Aswan High Dam Beleaguered Sudan The Gulf Oil Region Challenges to the House of Sa'ud Iraq and the U.S.: A Deadly Dance The Kurds Hotspot Iran Turkey: Where East Meets West Afghanistan: Rugged, Strategic, Devastated. Perspectives From the Field Way-Finding in the Desert. Geography of the Sacred Jerusalem. Insights Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Geography of Energy Middle Eastern Oil Pipelines. Geography of Terrorism What Does al-Qa'ida Want? 7. MONSOON ASIA. Area and Population Demographic Heavyweights of Monsoon Asia Population Growth Patterns. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations Climate and Vegetation The Monsoons Agricultural Adaptations The Importance of Rice Is There a Correlation between Agriculture and Culture? Where Asian Live. Cultural and Historical Geographies Ethnic and Linguistic Patterns Religions and Philosophical Movements Effects of European Colonization. Economic Geography China's Surging Economy China's Economic Impact The Green Revolution. Geopolitical Issues Nationalism and Nuclear Weapons U.S.-Pakistan Relations since 9/11 What Does North Korea Want? Islands, Sea Lanes, and Islamists. Regional Issues and Landscapes South Asia Faith, Sectarianism, and Strife The Caste System Keeping Malthus at Bay Vulnerable, Low-Lying Bangladesh and Maldives Southeast Asia Deforestation of Southeast Asia The Great Tsunami of 2004 Misrule and Misery in Myanmar Sex, Drugs, and Health in Southeast Asia Vietnam Then and Now The Mekong The Balkanization of Indonesia China Han Colonization of China's Wild West The Three Gorges Dam Deadly Viruses: Origins and Diffusion What's Next for Industrial China? Taiwan and the Two Chinas Problem Japan and the Koreas Japan's Postwar Miracle...and Its Costs The Law of the Sea North and South Korea: Night and Day. Geographic Spotlight China's One-Child Policy. Insights Shifting Cultivation. Geography of the Sacred The Korean Village. Geography of the Sacred The Sacred Cow. Insights Outsourcing. Geography of Energy The Spratly Islands. 8. OCEANIA. Area and Population Major Divisions of the Region The People and Where They Live. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations Climates and Biomes Island Types Why Are Oceania's Ecosystems So Vulnerable? Cultural and Historical Geographies The Indigenous Peoples of Oceania Europeans in Oceania. Economic Geography Making a Living in Oceania Mining Brings Strife. Geopolitical Issues Why Are Foreign Powers Interested in the Pacific? Regional Issues and Landscapes Australia and New Zealand Becoming Less British, More Asian-Pacific Australia's Original Inhabitants Reclaim Rights to the Land Exotic Species on the Island Continent Antarctica: The White Continent. Insights Deforestation and the Decline of Easter Island. Perspectives from the Field Aborigines and Missionaries in Northwestern Australia. Regional Perspective Foreign Militaries in the Pacific: A Mixed Blessing. 9. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. Area and Population Africa's Population Prospects. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations The Landscapes of Africa. Africa's Biomes and Climates Living off the Land Africa's Wildlife. Cultural and Historical Geographies The Language of Africa Africa's Belief Systems The Origins and Impacts of Slavery The Impact of Colonialism. Economic Geography Agriculture Mineral Resources Africa's Fragile Infrastructure Africa's Place in World Markets and Economies A Legacy of Failed States. Geopolitical Issues. Regional Issues and Landscapes The Sahel Drought and Desertification in the Sahel West Africa The Poor, Oil-Rich Delta of Nigeria West Central Africa Deadly Lakes The Horn of Africa The Galapagos Islands of Religion East Africa No More Divisionism? Southern Africa Zimbabwe's Struggles Ethnicity, Colonialism, Strife, and Reconciliation in South Africa The Indian Ocean Islands Madagascar and the Theory of Island Biogeography. Medical Geography HIV and AIDS in Africa. Regional Perspective The Great Rift Valley. Insights Africa's Greatest Conservationist. Biogeography Crop and Livestock Introductions: The Curse of Africa. Problem Landscape Cleaning Up the Dirty Diamonds. Insights Microedit. 10. LATIN AMERICA. Area and Population. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations Climates and Vegetation Elevation and Land Use Natural Hazards in Latin America. Cultural and Historical Geographies Civilizations Predating the Europeans' Arrival Languages in Latin America The European Conquest Ethnicity in Latin America. Economic Geography Commercial Agriculture Types of Farms Minerals and Mining Free Trade Agreements Sending Money Home Tourism in Latin America. Geopolitical Issues Regional Issues and Landscapes Middle America Mexico, Higher and Further Central America The Panama Canal South America Venezuela's Petroleum Politics Colombia's Potential and Peril The Amazon, Its Forest, and Its People. Natural Hazards El Nino. Insights Fair Trade Fruits. Problem Landscape The Troubled Fields of Land Reform. Regional Perspective The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Geography of Drug Trafficking The War on Drugs. 11. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Area and Population Migration into North America. Physical Geography and Human Adaptations Landforms and Land Uses Climates and Land Uses. Cultural and Historical Geographies Native American Civilizations Indigenous Culture Groups and Lifeways European Impacts on Native Cultures European Settlers and Settlements Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada Nonindigenous Languages and Faiths. Economic Geography Sources of the Region's Affluence An Abundance of Resources Mechanization, Services, and Information Technology U.S.-Canadian Economic Relations Transportation Infrastructure. Geopolitical Issues Historical Relations between the United States and Canada The United States' Place in the World. Regional Issues and Landscapes Canada The Quebec Separatist Movement Overfished Waters Race for the Arctic Greenland: A White Land The United States Reference Map Adaptive Reuse and Gentrification The Changing Geography of American Settlement The Big Apple San Francisco: The City by the Bay The Golden State's Rainbow The Thirsty West Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Geographic Spotlight The Modern-Day Slave Trade. Natural Hazards Nature's Wrath in the United States. Geography of Energy. Energy Alternatives in the United States. Insights Trade Barriers and Subsidies.
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