Human Geography in Action
5th Edition
Published on 23. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-470-48479-1 (ISBN)
Description
The new fifth edition enhances coverage in the field by enabling economists and political geographers to work online with GIS maps, spreadsheets, simulations, and animated graphs. The book has been updated to use maps of traditional foods and vernacular phrases for soft drinks to illustrate culture regions. Expanded discussions of migration include a look at international immigration. New material is also presented on the local food movement and the breakdown in negotiations for agricultural trade agreements at the Doha trade summit. In addition, economists and political geographers will find key terms throughout the chapters such as creative class, outsourcing, substitution of capital for labor, and transit-oriented development.
More details
Edition
5., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 28.1 cm
Width: 21.7 cm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
1014 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-48479-1 (9780470484791)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Michael Kuby | John Harner | Patricia Gober
Human Geography in Action
Book
08/2013
6th Edition
Wiley
€152.50
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Content
CHAPTER 1
True Maps, False Impressions:
Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps
CHAPTER 2
Layers of Tradition:
Culture Regions at Different Scales
CHAPTER 3
Tracking the AIDS Epidemic in the United States:
Diffusion through Space and Time
CHAPTER 4
Newton's First Law of Migration:
The Gravity Model
CHAPTER 5
One Billion and Counting:
The Hidden Momentum of Population
CHAPTER 6
Help Wanted:
The Changing Geography of Jobs
CHAPTER 7
Rags and Riches:
The Dimensions of Development
CHAPTER 8
Food for Thought:
The Globalization of Agriculture
CHAPTER 9
Take Me Out to the Ball Game:
Market Areas and the Urban Hierarchy
CHAPTER 10
Reading the Urban Landscape:
Census Data and Field Observation
CHAPTER 11
The Disappearing Front Range:
Urban Sprawl in Colorado
CHAPTER 12
Do Orange and Green Clash?
Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
CHAPTER 13
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do:
Nations, States, and Nation-States
CHAPTER 14
Preserving the Planet:
Human Impact on Environmental Systems
APPENDIX I