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Why Geography Matters : Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and...
ISBN: 9780195315820 | 0195315820
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/12/2007
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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency will threaten vital American interests. How can we understand these and other global challenges? Harm de Blij has a simple answer: by improving our understanding of the world's geography. In Why Geography Matters, de Blij demonstrates how geography'... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Why Geography Matters | p. 3 |
| Reading Maps and Facing Threats | p. 23 |
| Earth's Changeable Environments | p. 52 |
| Climate and Civilization | p. 74 |
| A Future Geography of Human Population | p. 91 |
| The Mesh of Civilizations | p. 108 |
| Red Star Rising: China's Geopolitical Gauntlet | p. 125 |
| Terrorism's Widening Circle | p. 150 |
| From Terrorism to Insurgency | p. 174 |
| European Superpower? | p. 197 |
| Russia: Trouble on the Eastern Front | p. 231 |
| Hope for Africa? | p. 255 |
| Epilogue | p. 275 |
| Works Cited | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 287 |
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Harm de Blij is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Michigan State University. The author of over 30 books, he is an honorary life member of the National Geographic Society and was for seven years the Geography Editor on ABC's "Good Morning America."
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