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WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Association of American Geographers 1904–2004

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Editors:
  1. Donald G. Janelle
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  2. Barney Warf
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  3. Kathy Hansen
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  • Demonstrates the utility of geography as a conceptual discipline that contributes theoretically; as an applied practice that informs policy-making; and as a coherent set of methodologies to gather and analyze data about Earth and its occupants

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Mixing Geography with Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Environmental Problems and International Democracy

      • Ron Johnston
      Pages 3-7

    3. Geographies of Power in the Post-Cold War World-System

      • Thomas Klak
      Pages 9-14

    4. Rural Property Rights in a Peace Process: Lessons from Mozambique

      • Jon D. Unruh
      Pages 15-19

    5. Globalization and Protest: Seattle and Beyond

      • Bruce D’Arcus
      Pages 21-24

    6. Allah’s Mountains: Establishing a National Park in the Central Asian Pamir

      • Stephen F. Cunha
      Pages 25-30

    7. Energy, Territory, and Conflict: Place-Based Research in the Caucasus

      • Shannon O’Lear
      Pages 31-35

    8. Hidden Killers: The Problem of Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance

      • Carl Dahlman
      Pages 37-41

    9. Evaluating the Geographic Compactness of Representational Districts

      • Gerald R. Webster
      Pages 43-47

    10. Environmental Conflict, Collaborative Solutions, and the Politics of Geographic Scale

      • Randall K. Wilson
      Pages 49-54

    11. Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the American South

      • Derek Alderman, Owen J. Dwyer
      Pages 55-60

    12. Banner Headlines: The Fight over Confederate Flags in the American South

      • Jonathan Leib, Gerald Webster
      Pages 61-66

  3. Addressing Human Needs: Health and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Halting the AIDS Pandemic

      • Harold D. Foster
      Pages 69-73

    3. Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

      • Esra Ozdenerol, Nina Lam
      Pages 75-79

    4. A Geographic Approach to Identifying Disease Clusters

      • Arthur Getis
      Pages 81-85

    5. Mortality Rates Across Time: Does Persistence Suggest “Healthy and Unhealthy Places” in the United States?

      • Ronald E. Cossman, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Troy C. Blanchard, Wesley L. James, Arthur Cosby
      Pages 87-92

    6. Learning Geography in the Absence of Sight

      • Reginald G. Golledge
      Pages 93-98

    7. Haptic Soundscapes: Developing Novel Multi-Sensory Tools to Promote Access to Geographic Information

      • Dan Jacobson
      Pages 99-103
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About this book

Geography today is a vibrant amalgam of theories, methods, and data about past, current, and emerging worlds. Geography and the geographers who produce it dwell at the intersection of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and various admixtures of their theories, methods, and data constitute the 100 chapters included in WorldMinds. Arrayed under the rubrics of politics and power, human wellbeing, cities, livelihood, ecosystems, human­ environment interactions, hazards, natural systems, new methods, and human perceptions, these 100 short essays reveal and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary North American geography. As is evident in these rubrics and essays, geography today is a many­ splendored enterprise ranging, as the editors note, "from feminist deconstruc­ tion to fluvial geomorphology." Geographers have something strikingly valuable to say about many, if not most of the problems that confront indi­ viduals and groups in locales and regions ranging from the plots of smallholders to the entire globe. The diverse chapters of WorldMinds well illustrate some of the key geographical perspectives that contribute usefully to the broader understanding of common problems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems

  • Book Subtitle: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Association of American Geographers 1904–2004

  • Editors: Donald G. Janelle, Barney Warf, Kathy Hansen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2352-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1612-7Published: 31 March 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1613-4Published: 31 March 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2352-1Published: 31 May 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 638

  • Number of Illustrations: 147 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Geography, general, Environment, general

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