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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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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.
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Table of contents (100 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mixing Geography with Politics
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Addressing Human Needs: Health and Education
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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
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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