Cengage Advantage Books: Fundamentals of World Regional Geography
ISBN: 9780495391982 | 0495391980
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/4/2009
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Well respected for its "profile" chapter organization and complete and accurate coverage, FUNDAMENTALS OF WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY 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.
| 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 | ... MORE|
| Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing | |
| What Do Geographers Do for a Living? | |
| Insights Core Location and Peripheral Location | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 R | |
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