Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts
ISBN: 9780470129050 | 0470129050
Edition: 13Format: Hardcover
Publisher: WILEY
Pub. Date: 10/1/2007
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Realms, Regions and Concepts challenges readers to consider the relationships between natural and human variables and think critically about the interdependency of the earth's systems. They'll learn how to apply their new geographic insights in order to make informed decisions about a variety of highly relevant environmental, cultural and economic topics. While the book focuses on economic or political factors, it also explains what it feels like to live in a specific region and gives a better sense of what the world looks like to people in oth... MORE
| Introduction | |
| World Regional Geography: Global Perspectives | |
| Geographic Perspectives | |
| Realms and Regions | |
| Criteria for Geographic Realms | |
| Criteria for Regions | |
| Realms and Regions on the Map | |
| The Map Revolution | |
| Scale and Detail | |
| The Physical Setting | |
| Natural (Physical) Landscapes) | ... MORE|
| Continents and Plates | |
| Natural Hazards | |
| Climate | |
| Realms of Population | |
| Major Population Clusters | |
| Regions and Cultures | |
| Cultural Landscapes | |
| Culture and Ethnicity | |
| The Geography of Language | |
| Major Population Clusters | |
| Realms, Regions, and States | |
| The State | |
| States and Realms | |
| Political Geography | |
| Patterns of Development | |
| Symptoms of Underdevelopment | |
| The Specter of Debt | |
| Globalization | |
| The Regional Framework | |
| Europe | |
| Russia | |
| North America | |
| Middle America | |
| South America | |
| Subsaharan Africa | |
| North Africa/Southwest Asia | |
| South Asia | |
| East Asia | |
| Southeast Asia | |
| Austral Realm | |
| Pacific Realm | |
| The Perspective of Geography | |
| Table G-1. Area and Demography Data | |
| For the World's States | |
| Europe | |
| Defining The Realm | |
| Geographical Features | |
| Europe's Eastern Border | |
| Resources | |
| Climates | |
| Human Diversity | |
| Locational Advantages | |
| Landscapes and Opportunities | |
| Historical Geography 51 Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome | |
| Triumph and Collapse | |
| Rebirth and Royalty | |
| The Revolutions of Modernizing Europe | |
| The Agrarian Revolution | |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| Political Revolutions | |
| Contemporary Europe | |
| Language and Religion | |
| Spatial Interaction | |
| A Highly Urbanized Realm | |
| A Changing Population | |
| Europe's Modern Transformation | |
| European Unification | |
| Policies and Priorities | |
| New Money | |
| Momentous Expansion | |
| Regional Issue | |
| Centrifugal Forces | |
| The EU's New Economic Geography | |
| Regions of the Realm | |
| Western Europe | |
| Reunited Germany | |
| France | |
| Benelux | |
| The Alpine States | |
| The British Isles | |
| States and People | |
| Roots of Devolution | |
| A Discrete Region | |
| End of Empire | |
| The United Kingdom | |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| Northern (Nordic) Europe | |
| Mediterranean Europe | |
| Italy> | |
| Iberia | |
| Greece | |
| Cyprus and Malta | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| Cultural Legacies | |
| The Geographic Framework | |
| Countries Facing the Baltic Sea | |
| The Landlocked Center | |
| Countries Facing the Black Sea | |
| Countries Facing the Adriatic Sea | |
| Russia | |
| Defining The Realm | |
| An Internal Empire | |
| Roots of the Russian Realm | |
| A Vibrant Culture | |
| Empire of the Czars | |
| Communist Victory | |
| Seven Fateful Decades | |
| Russia's Physical Geography | |
| Harsh Environments | |
| Physiographic Regions | |
| Evolution of the Russian State | |
| The Mongol Invasion | |
| Grand Duchy of Muscovy | |
| The Cossacks | |
| Czar Peter the Great | |
| Czarina Catherine the Great | |
| A Russian Empire | |
| The Colonial Legacy | |
| An Imperial, Multinational State | |
| The Soviet Legacy | |
| The Political Framework | |
| The Soviet Economic Framework | |
| Russia's Changing Political Geography | |
| The Federal Framework of Russia | |
| Regional Issue | |
| Changing Social Geographies | |
| Russia's Demographic Dilemma | |
| Russia's Prospects | |
| Heartland and Rimland | |
| Russia and the World | |
| Unresolved Problems | |
| Regions Of The Realm | |
| Russian Core and Peripheries | |
| Povolzhye: The Volga Region | |
| The Internal Southern Periphery | |
| The Urals Region | |
| The Eastern Frontier | |
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