Preface
Introduction
PART I Geography Concepts
1 Mapping and Technology
Overview
Mental Maps
Ways to Show Data
Maps and Globes
Modern Geotechnologies: GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing
Spatial Organization
Key Issues in Mapping and Technology
Cartography and Cultural Bias
Cartography and Political Bias
Geotechnology and Privacy
Ethical Use of Geographic Data
Further Reading
2 Regional Geography
Overview
Physical and Human Characteristics of Place
Types of Regions
Place and Human Perception
Key Issues in Regional Geography
Cultural Globalization
Realms and Conflict Zones
Free Trade Agreements
Further Reading
3 Physical Geography
Overview
Physical Systems
Climate and Weather
Ecosystems and Biomes
Key Issues in Physical Geography
Tectonic Shift and the Ring of Fire
Climate Change
Invasive Species
Threats to Biodiversity
Further Reading
4 Human Geography
Overview
Cultural Geography
Political Geography
Economic Geography
Population Geography
Settlement Geography
Historical Geography
Key Issues in Human Geography
Refugees, Population Displacement, and Migration
Geopolitics: Geography and International Relations
Agriculture, Population, and Settlement
Economic Globalization
Historical Geography and the Arctic Circle
Further Reading
5 Environmental Geography
Overview
How Humans Affect the Environment
How the Environment Affects Humans
Resource Management
Key Issues in Environmental Geography
Deforestation
Urban Sprawl
Natural Disaster Recovery
World Water Crisis
Further Reading
6 Geography in Action
Overview
Success Stories
Sustainable Cities
China's Shift to Renewable Energy
Water and Gender in Madagascar
Protecting Biodiversity in Costa Rica
Africa's Great Green Wall
Further Reading
PART II A-Z Entries
Acculturation
Acid Rain
Agribusiness
Air Pollution
Anthropogenic Global Warming
Aquaculture
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
Biomes
Boundaries
Brexit
Carrying Capacity
Cartograms
Cartography
Central Business District (CBD)
Central Place Theory
Chaparral
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Columbian Exchange
Community-Based Mapping
Conservation versus Preservation
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
Core and Periphery
Cultural Convergence
Cultural Hearth
Demographic Transition Model
Demography
Desalination
Desertification
Deserts
Diffusion, Cultural
Droughts
Ecosystems
Ecotourism
El Niño and La Niña
Endangered Species
Energy Efficiency
Environmental Determinism
Epidemics
Equator
Eratosthenes
Erosion
European Union
Flow Resources
Food Security
Forests
Fossil Fuels
Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Glaciers
Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
Google Maps
Greenhouse Gases
Heartland Theory
Human Development Index (HDI)
Ibn Battuta
Idrisi, Mohammed al-
Indicator Species
International Date Line
Kyoto Protocol
Latitude and Longitude
Malthus, Thomas
Map Projections
Marsh, George Perkins
Mercator, Gerardus
Migration
More Developed Countries and Least Developed Countries (MDCs and LDCs)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Offshore Outsourcing
Organic Agriculture
Overpopulation
Ozone Depletion
Paris Agreement (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Plate Tectonics
Population Pyramid
Primate Cities
Prime Meridian
Ptolemy, Claudius
Push-Pull Factors
Realms
Regions: Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
Relative Location and Absolute Location
Remote Sensing
Renewable Energy
Shatterbelt
Site and Situation
Stateless Nations
Supranationalism
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Development
Syncretism
Tragedy of the Commons
Transculturation
Transnational Corporations
Tundra
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA)
Von Humboldt, Alexander
World Systems Theory
Zheng He
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index