Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to geography : people, places, and environment / Edward F. Bergman, William H. Renwick.

Author

Bergman, Edward F.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Renwick, William H.

Description

xxi, 579 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 28 cm.

Subject

Geography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction to Geography -- What Is Geography? -- Contemporary Approaches in Geography -- Area Analysis -- Spatial Analysis -- Physical and Human Systems -- Describing Earth -- Conclusion: Critical Issues for the Future -- 2. Weather and Climate -- Energy and Weather -- Precipitation -- Circulation Patterns -- Climate -- Classifying Climate -- Earth's Climate Regions -- Climate Change -- 3. Landforms -- Plate Tectonics -- Slopes and Streams -- Ice, Wind, and Waves -- The Dynamic Earth -- 4. The Hydrosphere and Biosphere -- Biochemical Cycles -- Carbon, Oxygen, and Nutrient Flows in the Biosphere -- Soil -- Ecosystems -- Biomes: Global Patterns in the Biosphere -- 5. Population, Population Increase, and Migration -- The Distribution and Density of Human Settlement -- World Population Growth -- Other Significant Demographic Patterns -- Migration -- Migration Today -- 6. Cultural Geography -- Cultural Evolution Contrasts with Cultural Diffusion -- Culture Realms -- The Global Diffusion of European Culture -- 7. The Geography of Languages and Religions -- DefiningLanguages 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 -- 8. 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 -- 9. Earth's Resources and Environmental Protection -- What Is a Natural Resource? -- Mineral and Energy Resources -- Air and Water Resources -- Forests -- 10. Cites and Urbanization -- Urban Functions -- The Locations of Cities -- World Urbanization -- The Internal Geography of Cities -- Cities and Suburbs in the United States -- 11. 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 -- 12. 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 -- 13. The Globalization of Economics and Politics -- The Collapse of Empires -- New Unions of States -- Global Government -- Protecting the Global Environment -- Appendix I. Map Scale and Projections -- Appendix II. The Koppen Climate Classification System -- Appendix III. The World Today: Population, Economy, Environment.

ISBN

0130325392

LCCN

^^2001034032

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library