WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 ProblemsDonald G. Janelle, Barney Warf, Kathy Hansen 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. |
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 |
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