INDICE: PREFACE; From the Publisher; Pedagogical features walk-through; Author's Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: THE ROADS AHEAD; Three Recurring Themes; Why Human Geography?; The Goal of Human Geography; The Human Geographer at Work; About This Book; About Being a Human Geographer; 1: WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?; Preclassical Geography; Classical Geography; The Fifth to FifteenthCenturies: Geography in Europe, China, and the Islamic World; The Age of European Overseas Movement; Geography Rethought; Institutionalization: 1874-1903; Prelude to the Present: 1903-1970; Contemporary Geography; 2: STUDYING HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; Philosophical Options; Human Geographic Concepts; Techniques of Analysis; A Concluding Comment; 3: A FRAGILE HOME; A Global Perspective; Humans asSimplifiers of Ecosystems; Environmental Ethics; Human Impacts; Earth's VitalSigns; Sustainability and Sustainable Development; 4: A CROWDED HOME?; Fertility; Mortality; Natural Increase; Government Policies; The Composition of a Population; History of Population Growth; Explaining Population Growth; 5: AN UNEQUAL HOME; Distribution and Density; Migration; Refugees; The Less Developed World; 6: CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND LANDSCAPES; A World Divided by Culture?; Humans in Groups; The Evolution of Culture; Cultural Regions; The Making of Cultural Landscapes; Language; Religion; Cultural Globalization; 7: SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND LANDSCAPES; Rethinking Culture; Types of Society; Social Theory; Landscape as Place; Geographies of Difference; Geographies of Well-being; Folk Culture and Popular Culture; Recreation and Tourism; Group Engineering in a Globalizing World; 8: POLITICAL IDENTITIES AND LANDSCAPES; State Creation; Introducing Geopolitics (and Geopolitik); Unstable States; Groupings of States; The Roleof the State; Elections: Geography Matters; The Geography of Peace and War; Our Geopolitical Future?; 9: A GLOBALIZING WORLD; Distance Friction and Frictionless Distance; Concepts of Distance and Space; Diffusion; Overcoming Distance: Transportation; Overcoming Distance: Trade; Towards One World; Economic Globalization; Globalization: Good or Bad?; A Global Village?; 10: AGRICULTURAL LIVES AND LANDSCAPES; Inventing, and Reinventing, Economic Geography; The Agricultural Location Problem; Distance, Land Value, and Land Use; Domesticating Plants and Animals; World Agriculture: A Brief History of Technological Changes; World Agriculture Today: Types and Regions; Global Agricultural Restructuring;Food, Consumption, and Identity; 11: SETTLEMENT PATTERNS; An Urbanizing World; Rural Settlement; The Origins and Growth of Cities; Locating Urban Centres; World Cities; 12: URBAN FORM AND GOVERNANCE; Explaining Location inside the City; Governing the City; Planning the City; Moving Around the City; Spreading Outward; 13: LIVING AND WORKING IN CITIES; Housing; Neighbourhoods; Poverty andDeprivation; Cities as Centres of Production and Consumption; Living in the Less Developed World City; 14: INDUSTR
- ISBN: 978-0-19-543184-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
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- Fecha Publicación: 25/03/2010
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