Human Geography in Action, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780471430551 | 0471430552
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 9/1/2003
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Lying on the arid steppes of Central Asia, the Aral Sea (depicted on the front cover) once supported a thriving fishing industry for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. As the Soviet Union developed the region, the sea shrank to a fraction of its former size, leaving boats high and dry and most fish species gone. Even worse, toxic salts and agricultural chemicals that accumulated on the lake bottom are now exposed to winds and carried to nearby cities, where cancer rates have skyrocketed. How did human and natural systems interact to convert the world's fourth largest lake into an ecological catastrophe? Human Geography in Action, 3/e provides you with the knowledge, the concepts, and the problem-solving skills you need to answer this and many other socially relevant questions. Book jacket.
| Preface for the Instructor | ix | ||||
| Preface for the Student | xv | ||||
| CHAPTER 1 True Maps, False Impressions: Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps | |||||
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| CHAPTER 2 Layers of Tradition: Culture Regions at Different Scales | |||||
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| CHAPTER 3 Tracking the AIDS Epidemic in the United States: Diffusion Through Space and Time | |||||
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| CHAPTER 4 Newton's First Law of Migration: The Gravity Model | |||||
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| CHAPTER 5 One Billion and Counting: The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth in India | |||||
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| CHAPTER 6 Help Wanted: The Changing Geography of Jobs | |||||
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| CHAPTER 7 Rags and Riches: The Dimensions of Development | |||||
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| CHAPTER 8 Food for Thought: The Globalization of Agriculture | |||||
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| CHAPTER 9 Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy | |||||
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| CHAPTER 10 Reading the Urban Landscape: Census Data and Field Observation | |||||
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| CHAPTER 11 The Disappearing Front Range: Urban Sprawl in Colorado | |||||
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| CHAPTER 12 Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland | |||||
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| CHAPTER 13 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Nations, States, and Nation-States | |||||
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| CHAPTER 14 Preserving the Planet: Human Impact on Environmental Systems | |||||
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| APPENDIX Reference Maps | |||||
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| Index | 465 | (3) | |||
| Photo Credits | 468 |
Michael Kuby: Arizona State University John Harner: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Patricia Gober: Arizona State University
