WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems

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Donald G. Janelle, Barney Warf, Kathy Hansen
Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 31, 2004 - Science - 635 pages
Geography today is a vibrant amalgam of theories, methods, and data about past, current, and emerging worlds. Geography and the geographers who produce it dwell at the intersection of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and various admixtures of their theories, methods, and data constitute the 100 chapters included in WorldMinds. Arrayed under the rubrics of politics and power, human wellbeing, cities, livelihood, ecosystems, human environment interactions, hazards, natural systems, new methods, and human perceptions, these 100 short essays reveal and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary North American geography. As is evident in these rubrics and essays, geography today is a many splendored enterprise ranging, as the editors note, "from feminist deconstruc tion to fluvial geomorphology." Geographers have something strikingly valuable to say about many, if not most of the problems that confront indi viduals and groups in locales and regions ranging from the plots of smallholders to the entire globe. The diverse chapters of WorldMinds well illustrate some of the key geographical perspectives that contribute usefully to the broader understanding of common problems.

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Contents

Environmental Problems and International Democracy
3
Geographies of Power in the PostCold War WorldSystem
9
Rural Property Rights in a Peace Process Lessons From Mozambique
15
Globalization and Protest Seattle and Beyond
21
Allahs Mountains Establishing a National Park in the Central Asian Pamir
25
Energy Territory and Conflict PlaceBased Research in the Caucasus
31
Hidden Killers The Problem of Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance
37
Evaluating the Geographic Compactness of Representational Districts
43
Geographical Perspectives for Tackling Problems in Wetlands
321
Marine Geography in Support of Reefs at Risk
325
The Oculina Banks Experimental Research Reserve A Habitat Assessment Using MultiMedia and Internet GIS
331
Geographers and Sustainability A Missing Connection?
339
The Great Plains and the Buffalo Commons
345
Reducing Energy Shortages and Pollution in China The World Banks Coal Transport Studies
351
Unintended Consequences The War on Drugs and Land Use and Cover Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon
357
A Geographical Perspective in CocaCocaine Impacts in South America
363

Environmental Conflict Collaborative Solutions and the Politics of Geographic Scale
49
Putting Memory in its Place The Politics of Commemoration in the American South
55
Banner Headlines The Fight Over Confederate Flags in the American South
61
Halting the AIDS Pandemic
69
Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana
75
A Geographic Approach to Identifying Disease Clusters
81
Mortality Rates Across Time Does Persistence Suggest Healthy and Unhealthy Places in the United States?
87
Learning Geography in the Absence of Sight
93
Haptic Soundscapes Developing Novel Multisensory Tools to Promote Access to Geographic Information
99
The Finish Kaamos Escapes From Short Days and Cold Winters
105
Applied Geography in the Provision of Educational Services
113
Spatial Analysis and Modeling for the School District Planning Problem
119
A Model for Collaborative Research Building a CommunityUniversity Institute for Social Research
125
Struggling Against Illiteracy in a Global City The New York Experience
131
Reaching New Standards Geographys Return to Relevance in American Education
137
Poverty and Geographical Access to Employment Minority Women in Americas Inner Cities
145
Ethnic Segregation Measurement Causes and Consequences
151
Flat BreakUps The British Condominium Conversion Experience
157
The Geography of Environmental Injustice in the Bronx New York City
163
Commuting Congestion and Urban Transport Sustainability
171
Charting Urban Travelers 247 for Disaster Evacuation and Homeland Security
177
The Walking Security Index and Pedestrians Security in Urban Areas
183
Clean Streets Clean Waterways Street Sweeping Storm Water Runoff and Pollution Reduction
191
Reclaiming Brownfield Sites From Toxic Legacies to Sustainable Communities
197
Land Cover Change in the Seattle Region Linking Patterns of Growth to Planning Efforts Through Land Cover Change Assessments
203
How Smart is Smart Growth? The Case of Austin Texas
209
Cultural Exploration and Understanding A Framework for Global Business
217
Geography in Crisis Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s
225
Modeling Space for Regional Regeneration Hightech Districts in China
231
Why Offshore Exploring the Geographies of Offshore Financial Centers
237
US Call Centers The Undiscovered Country
243
Gender and Globalization Maquila Geographies
249
Promoting Development in Canadian North
255
US Land use and Land Cover Change 19732000
261
Periodic Markets Now and Then
267
The Biodiversity Crisis
273
Biodiversity Inventory Kamiali Wildlife Management Area
279
Anthropogenic Soils and Sustainability in Amazonia
287
Tropical Deforestation
293
Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon Characterizing Patterns and Associated Drivers of Change
299
Forest Degradation and Fragmentation Within Celaque National Park Honduras
305
Human Interactions With Ecosystems Processes Causes of Aspen Decline in the Intermountain West
311
The Colorado River Delta of Mexico Endangered Species Refuge
317
Global Environments and Rural Communities Enhancing Community Conservation Initiatives in East Africa
369
Water Management in the West Controlling the Impact of Cumulative Pond Diversions
375
The Conservation of Reserve Program A Solution to the Problem of Agricultural Overproduction?
381
Its the Overgrazing Stupid Destruction of the Global Rangelands
387
Forests and Management A Case Study in Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
391
Excursions Into the Toxic Past
399
NonPoint Sources Historical Sedimentation and 20thCentury Geography
405
Spatial Analysis of Hazardous Fuels and Ecological Decadence
411
Closed Municipal Landfills in Texas Using GIS to Study Their Health Safety and Environmental Risks and Impacts
419
Understanding Pesticide Misuse in Developing Countries
425
The Biogeographic Response to Acid Rain
431
Thinking Outside the Circle Using Geographical Knowledge to Focus Environmental Risk Assessment Investigations
435
Paleotempestology Geographic Solutions to Hurricane Hazard Assessment and Risk Prediction
443
Societal Impacts of Blizzards in the Conterminous United States 19592000
449
Coastal Hazards and Barrier Beach Development
455
Bridging Hazards Geography and Political Geography A Borderland Vulnerability Framework
461
Ecological Response to Global Climate Change
469
Global Change and Assessment of the Onset of Spring
475
Understanding Urban Climates
481
Developing HeatWarning Systems for Cities Worldwide
487
Using Geomorphology to Assess and Enhance Beach Habitat for Horseshoe Crabs
493
Reconstructing Past Watershed and Ecosystem Development in the Coast Mountains British Columbia Canada
497
Water Resource Development on Small Carbonate Islands Solutions offered by the Hydrologic Landscape Concept
503
The Hydrodynamic Efficiency of NonTraditional Levee Protection Methods in the Sacramento River Delta
509
Reclamation of Surface CoalMinded Lands in Northwest Colorado
515
Community Mapping as a Solution to Digital Equity
523
Using Historical GIS to Resolve Political Boundary Disputes Along Rivers
529
Toward a Participatory Geographic Information Science
535
Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Promoting Collaborative Natural Resource Management Through Mobile Interactive GIS MIGIS
541
Towards Structured Public Involvement Improving Community Involvement in Transportation Decision Making
547
GIS Evaluation for Field Dissipation in the Northern Wheat Belt
553
Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery
559
Geospatial Contributions to WatershedScale Surface Water Quality Modeling
565
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem MAUP
571
Placing Children at the Heart Globalization
579
How Do Children Use Representations of Space?
585
Undocumented Immigrants in the 21st Century Perceptions of Spatial Legitimacy
589
Nourishing the Soul Geography and Matters of Meaning
595
The Profound Problem of Locating Humanity The Significance and Implications of Fengshui
601
Alexander von Humboldt and the Origins of Our Modern Geographical View of Earth
607
Natural and Cultural Landscapes One Heritage or Two?
613
Index
619
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