Worldminds

by Janelle, Donald G.; Warf, Barney; Hansen, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9781402016127
• ISBN10: 1402016123
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

WorldMinds provides broad exposure to a geography that is engaged with discovery, interpretation, and problem solving. Its 100 succinct chapters demonstrate the theories, methods, and data used by geographers, and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary geography. The 150 contributing authors and co-authors address the challenges posed by issues such as globalization, regional and ethnic conflict, environmental hazards, terrorism, poverty, and sustainable development. This volume demonstrates the utility of geography as a conceptual discipline that contributes theoretically; as an applied practice that informs policy-making; and as a coherent set of methodologies to gather and analyze data about Earth and its occupants. WorldMinds is the ideal general reader to supplement textbooks in the full range of academic geography courses. In addition to geography students and instructors, it is relevant to researchers, applied geographers and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introducing WorldMinds
Environmental problems and international democracy	p. 3
Geographies of power in the post-cold war world-system	p. 9
Rural property rights in a peace process : lessons from Mozambique	p. 15
Globalization and protest : Seattle and beyond	p. 21
Allah's mountains : establishing a national park in the Central Asian Pamir	p. 25
Energy, territory, and conflict : place-based research in the Caucasus	p. 31
Hidden killers : the problem of landmines and unexploded ordinance	p. 37
Evaluating the geographic compactness of representational districts	p. 43
Environmental conflict, collaborative solutions, and the politics of geographic scale	p. 49
Putting memory in its place : the politics of commemoration in the American South	p. 55
Banner headlines : the fight over confederate flags in the American South	p. 61
Halting the AIDS pandemic	p. 69
Detecting spatial clusters of cancer mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana	p. 75
A geographic approach to identifying disease clusters	p. 81
Mortality rates across time : does persistence suggest "healthy and unhealthy places" in the United States?	p. 87
Learning geography in the absence of sight	p. 93
Haptic soundscapes : developing novel multi-sensory tools to promote access to geographic information	p. 99
The Finnish Kaamos : escapes from short days and cold winters	p. 105
Applied geography in the provision of educational services	p. 113
Spatial analysis and modeling for the school district planning problem	p. 110
A model for collaborative research : building a community-university institute for social research	p. 125
Struggling against illiteracy in a global city : the New York experience	p. 131
Reaching new standards : geography's return to relevance in American education	p. 137
Poverty and geographical access to employment : minority women in America's inner cities	p. 145
Ethnic segregation : measurement, causes, and consequences	p. 151
Flat break-ups : the British condominium conversion experience	p. 157
The geography of environmental injustice in the Bronx, New York City	p. 163
Commuting, congestion, and urban transport sustainability	p. 171
Charting urban travelers 24-7 for disaster evacuation and homeland security	p. 177
The walking security index and pedestrians' security in urban areas	p. 183
Clean streets - clean waterways : street sweeping, storm water runoff, and pollution reduction	p. 191
Reclaiming Brownfield sites : from toxic legacies in sustainable communities	p. 197
Land cover change in the Seattle region : linking patterns of growth to planning efforts through land cover change assessments	p. 203
How smart is smart growth? : the case of Austin, Texas	p. 209
Cultural exploration and understanding : a framework for global business	p. 217
Geography in crisis : perspectives on the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s	p. 225
Modeling space for regional regeneration : high-tech districts in China	p. 231
Why offshore? : exploring the geographies of offshore financial centers	p. 237
U.S. call centers : the undiscovered country	p. 243
Gender and globalization : Maquila geographies	p. 249
Promoting development in the Canadian North	p. 255
U.S. land use and land cover change : 1973-2000	p. 261
Periodic markets now and then	p. 267
The biodiversity crisis	p. 273
Biodiversity inventory : Kamiali wildlife management area	p. 279
Anthropogenic soils and sustainability in Amazonia	p. 287
Tropical deforestation	p. 293
Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon : characterizing patterns and associated drivers of change	p. 299
Forest degradation and fragmentation within Celaque National Park, Honduras	p. 305
Human interactions with ecosystem processes : causes of aspen decline in the intermountain west	p. 311
The Colorado River Delta of Mexico : endangered species refuge	p. 317
Geographical perspectives for tackling problems in wetlands	p. 321
Marine geography in support of "reefs at risk"	p. 325
The oculina banks experimental research reserve : a habitat assessment using multi-media and internet GIS	p. 331
Geographers and sustainability : a missing connection?	p. 339
The great plains and the buffalo commons	p. 345
Reducing energy shortages and pollution in China: the World Bank's coal transport studies	p. 351
Unintended consequences : the war on drugs and land use and cover change in the Ecuadorian Amazon	p. 357
A geographical perspective on coca/cocaine impacts in South America	p. 363
Global environments and rural communities : enhancing community conservation initiatives in East Africa	p. 369
Water management in the west : controlling the impact of cumulative pond diversions	p. 375
The conservation reserve program : a solution to the problem of agricultural overproduction?	p. 381
It's the overgrazing stupid! : destruction of the global rangelands	p. 387
Forests and management : a case study in Nepal using remote sensing and GIS	p. 391
Excursions into the toxic past	p. 399
Non-point sources : historical sedimentation and 20th-century geography	p. 405
Spatial analysis of hazardous fuels and ecological decadence	p. 411
Closed municipal landfills in Texas : using GIS to study their health, safety, and environmental risks and impacts	p. 419
Understanding pesticide misuse in developing countries	p. 425
The biogeographic response to acid rain	p. 431
Thinking outside the circle : using geographical knowledge to focus environmental risk assessment investigations	p. 435
Paleotempestology : geographic solutions to hurricane hazard assessment and risk prediction	p. 443
Societal impacts of blizzards in the conterminous United States, 1959-2000	p. 449
Coastal hazards and barrier beach development	p. 455
Bridging hazards geography and political geography : a borderland vulnerability framework	p. 461
Ecological response to global climatic change	p. 469
Global change and assessment of the onset of spring	p. 475
Understanding urban climates	p. 481
Developing heat-warning systems for cities worldwide	p. 487
Using geomorphology to assess and enhance beach habitat for Horseshoe Crabs	p. 493
Reconstructing past watershed and ecosystem development in the coast mountains, British Columbia, Canada	p. 497
Water resource development on small carbonate islands : solutions offered by the hydrologic landscape concept	p. 503
The hydrodynamic efficiency of non-traditional levee protection methods in the Sacramento River Delta	p. 509
Reclamation of surface coal-mined lands in Northwest Colorado	p. 515
Community mapping as a solution to digital equity	p. 523
Using historical GIS to resolve political boundary disputes along rivers	p. 529
Toward a participatory geographic information science	p. 535
Empowering indigenous peoples and promoting collaborative natural resource management through mobile interactive GIS (MIGIS)	p. 541
Towards structured public involvement : improving community involvement in transportation decision making	p. 547
GIS evaluation for field dissipation in the Northern Wheat Belt	p. 553
Quantitative spatial analysis of remotely sensed imagery	p. 559
Geospatial contributions to watershed-scale surface water quality modeling	p. 565
The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP)	p. 571
Placing children at the heart of globalization	p. 579
How do children use representations of space?	p. 585
Undocumented immigrants in the 21st century : perceptions of spatial legitimacy	p. 589
'Nourishing the soul' : geography and matters of meaning	p. 595
The profound problem of locating humanity : the significance and implications of feng-shui	p. 601
Alexander von Humboldt and the origins of our modern geographical view of earth	p. 607
Natural and cultural landscapes : one heritage or two?	p. 613
Index	p. 619
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