World Regional Geography
A Question of Place
3rd Edition
Published on 17. January 1989
Book
Hardback
592 pages
978-0-471-61648-1 (ISBN)
Description
This world-regional text divides the world into two types of societies: the technological world and the developing world. It provides in-depth coverage of each region, based on a process approach - how each region has evolved is discussed in terms of its history, economy, culture, and geography - and includes mapscan and geolabs.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 90 mm
Width: 20 mm
Weight
1616 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-61648-1 (9780471616481)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 The human world remade: the human world remade; the geography of development. Part 2 The technological world: Western Europe; North America; the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Japan and Korea: the East Asian rim; Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific world. Part 3 The developing world: Latin America; China; South Asia; Southeast Asia; the Middle East and North Africa; Africa; map scale; topographic maps; map projections; urban mapping: Tokyo; mapping water need - water-balance diagrams; cartograms; mapping with isolines; mapping population; remote sensing of the environment; the beginnings of cartography; map symbols; list of geolabs: location theory: the Von Thnen model; spatial diffusion; formal regions - the use of Venn diagrams; megalopolis - a coalescing of cities; environmental perception; elevation and environment; culture regions: core, domain, and sphere; central place theory; the monsoon; rural settlement patterns; climographs of human comfort; n