Introduction to geography : people, places, and environment / Edward F. Bergman, William H. Renwick
- Author
- Bergman, Edward F.
- Published
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 579 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
- Additional Creators
- Renwick, William H.
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY: What is geography -- Contemporary approaches to geography -- Area analysis -- Spatial analysis -- Physical and human systems -- Describing Earth -- WEATHER AND CLIMATE: Energy and weather -- Precipitation -- Circulation patterns -- Climate -- Classifying climate -- Earth's climate regions -- Climate change -- LANDFORMS: Plate tectonics -- Slopes and streams -- Ice, wind, and waves -- The dynamic Earth -- BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES AND THE BIOSPHERE: Biochemical cycles -- Carbon, oxygen, and nutrient flows in the biosphere -- Soil -- Ecosystems -- Biomes: global patterns in the biosphere -- POPULATION, POPULATION INCREASE, AND MIGRATION: The distribution and density of human settlement -- World population growth -- Other significant demographic patterns -- Migration -- Migration today -- CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: Cultural evolution contrasts with cultural diffusion -- Culture realms -- The global diffusion of European culture -- THE GEOGRAPHY OF LANGUAGES AND RELIGIONS: Defining languages and language regions -- The development and diffusion of languages -- Linguistic differentiation in the modern world -- The teachings, origin, and diffusion of the world's major religions -- The political and social impact of the geography of religion -- THE HUMAN FOOD SUPPLY: Food supplies over the past 200 years -- Agriculture today -- Livestock around the world -- Food supplies in the future -- World distribution of food supplies and production -- The harvest of fish. and EARTH'S RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: What is a natural resource -- Mineral and energy resources -- Air and water resources -- Forests -- CITIES AND URBANIZATION: Urban functions -- The locations of cities -- World urbanization -- The internal geography of cities -- Cities and suburbs in the United States -- A WORLD OF STATES: The development of the nation-state idea -- Efforts to achieve a world map of nation-states -- How states demarcate and organize territory -- Measuring and mapping individual rights j-- NATIONAL PATHS TO ECONOMIC GROWTH: Analyzing and comparing countries' economies -- The geography of manufacturing -- National economic-geographic policies -- National trade policies -- The formation of the global economy -- POLITICAL REGIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION: The collapse of empires -- New unions of states -- Global government -- Protecting the global environment -- Map scale and projections -- The Koppen Climate Classification System -- The world today: population, economy, environment.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0130325392
9780130325396 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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