ISBN: 1441903917 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2nd ed. Author(s): Robert G. Bailey Publisher: Springer Number of Pages: 243
This book outlines a system that subdivides the Earth into a hierarchy of increasingly finer-scale ecosystems that can sever as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management The system consists of a three-part nested hierarchy of ecosystem units and associated mapping criteria Delineating units involves identifying the environmental factors controlling the spatial geography of ecosystems at various levels and drawing boundaries where they change significantly Macroscale units (ecoregions) are climatically controlled and delineated as Kppen-Trewartha climate zones Nested within these are landscape mosaics the mesoscale units controlled by landform and delineated by Hammonds landform regions At the microscale are individual sites controlled by topographically determined topoclimate and soil moisture regimes Features of the Second Edition: There are new sections on how ecoregion boundaries were determined ecoregion redistribution under climate change ecosystem processes (such as fire regimes) empirical versus genetic approaches and human modification (such as invasive species) The book has been updated throughout with new text and figures and with new literature reviewed More examples drawn from outside the North American environment particularly at the meso and micro scale Discussion of recent alternative mapping systems and how they relate to the system presented in this book Richly illustrated with many new diagrams photographs and tables The new edition also includes two color maps showing the ecoregions of the oceans and continents and a completely updated guide to further reading
ISBN: 0078745292 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): McGraw-Hill Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Number of Pages: 853
A world view from renowned authors
World Geography and Cultures offers a fascinating view of the world enlivened by a meticulous presentation that focuses on the development of geographic literacy Every region is studied in three parts: physical geography cultural geography and current events
ISBN: 0495110043 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 8 Author(s): Robert E. Gabler, James F. Petersen, L. Michael Trapasso Publisher: Brooks Cole Number of Pages: 672
ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY emphasizes three essential themes to demonstrate the major roles for the discipline--Geography as Physical Science Geography as Spatial Science and Geography as Environmental Science With a renewed focus on examining relationships and processes among systems the text helps you understand how the various systems interrelate
ISBN: 0516277731 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Rebecca Aberg Publisher: Children's Press(CT) Number of Pages: 32
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe With this series all about geography emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities nations waterways and habitats around the worldand right in their own backyards
A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900
ISBN: 0521707439 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Lauren Benton Publisher: Cambridge University Press Number of Pages: 352
A Search for Sovereignty maps a new approach to world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900 Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law Conflicts over treason piracy convict transportation martial law and crime created irregular spaces of law while also attaching legal meanings to familiar geographic categories such as rivers oceans islands and mountains The resulting legal and spatial anomalies influenced debates about imperial constitutions and international law both in the colonies and at home This original study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law
ISBN: 1931397198 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2nd Stdt Author(s): Cindy Wiggers Publisher: Geography Matters Number of Pages: 148
An easy-to-follow resource to teach essential geographical facts and features of each of the 50 US states Includes 5-minute daily drills mapping building a geography notebook and a wide variety
Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography)
ISBN: 1405110910 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Andrew Herod Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Number of Pages: 296
Exploring a wide range of issues from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planets economic geography Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world
Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization
Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism
Explores whether we are in fact living in a more globalized world or only in a more internationalized one
Considers arguments concerning whether globalization is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making
Focuses on how nation-states have shaped and been shaped by contemporary processes of globalization how globalization has been imagined discursively and how workers are responding to such processes
Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to globalization
The Europeans: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment (Texts In Regional Geography)
ISBN: 0898622727 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Robert C. Ostergren, John G. Rice Publisher: The Guilford Press Number of Pages: 386
Offering a comprehensive introduction to European geography this timely text is as authoritative as it is richly nuanced and engaging The authors analyze the ongoing process of integration that is giving new meaning to the idea of being European while also delineating the important subregional differences that exist among the continent's people and places Coverage encompasses the entire region: its physical setting and environment; population and migration; work and leisure; language and religion; and political organization Particular attention is given to the historic evolution and contemporary features of the urban environments in which the majority of Europeans live their daily lives Combining vivid descriptionup-to-date information and cogent analysis the text is illustrated with 200 photographs and over 45 maps
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
ISBN: Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Trevor Paglen Publisher: Dutton Adult Number of Pages: 336
Blank Spots on the Map is an expose of an empire that continues to grow every yearand which officially it isnt even there It is the adventurous insightful and often chilling story of a young geographers road trip through the underworld of US military and CIA black ops sites This is a shadow nation of state secrets: clandestine military bases ultra-secret black sites classified factories hidden laboratories and top-secret agencies making up what defense and intelligence insiders themselves call the black world Run by an amorphous group of government agencies and private companies this empires ever expanding budget dwarfs that of many good sized countries yet it denies its own existence
Author Trevor Paglen is a scholar in geography an artist and a provocateur His research into areas that officially dont exist leads him on a globe-trotting investigation into a vast undemocratic and uncontrolled black empirethe unmarked blank areas whether you are looking at Google Earth or a US Geological Survey map Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons stakes out the Groom Lake covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away observes classified spacecraft in the night sky with amateur astronomers and dissects the Defense Departments multibillion dollar black budget Traveling to the Middle East Central America and even around our nations capital and its surrounding suburbs he interviews the people who live on the edges of these blank spots
Paglen visits the widow of Walter Kazra who while working construction at Groom Lake was poisoned by the toxic garbage pits there The U S Air Force defense to his estates suit The base does not exist The U S Supreme Court declined to review the case Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas Washington D C suburbs secret prisons in Kabul buried CIA aircraft in Honduras or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory he is impassioned rigorous relentlessand eye-opening This is a human vivid and telling portrait of a ballooning national mistake
