Geography, Culture and the Environment (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Culture, environments and regions. 3. Fundamentals of population geography. 4. Processes and cycles of population change. 5. Migration and its causes. 6. Routes of human mobility. 7. Alternative geographies of global development and inequality. 8. The geography of the economy. 9. Geopolitics, states and citizenship. 10. The place of the Nation-State.

Vol. II. Soil Geography: Preface. 1. Climate, agriculture and food. 2. Climate, energy and industrial technology. 3. Human bioclimatology. 4. Climate and housing. 5. Modification of weather and climate. 6. Aridisols of the United States. 7. Mollisols of the United States. 8. Alfisols of the United States. 9. Ultisols of the United States. 10. Spodosols of the United States. 11. Oxisols of the United States. 12. Histosols of the United States.

"Geographers chronicle, analyze, and often predict such changes. The old image of place-name and product-list geography has finally faded in the face of spatial and territorial transformations brought on by recent economic and political changes, of satellite imagery and computer cartography, of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis.

It has been thoroughly revised to address contemporary economic and environmental issues such as deindustrialization and the rise of the service sector, and the human alteration of the physical environment." (jacket)