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ISBN 10: 1319059813
ISBN 13: 9781319059811
Author: Roderick P Neumann, Patricia L Price

Contemporary Human Geography 2nd Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Human Geography: A Cultural Approach

Our Cultural Approach to Human Geography

Many Cultures

Folk Culture

Indigenous Culture

Popular Culture

Cultural Diversification

Three Perspectives on Human Geography

Spatial Modeling Perspective

Humanistic Perspective

Social Theoretical Perspective

The Visualization Tools of Human Geography

Longitude and Latitude

Geography @ Work: Matt Rosenberg, Geography Expert for About.com

Geospatial Technologies

Organizing Themes for Contemporary Human Geography

Region

Formal Regions

Functional Regions

Vernacular Regions

Mobility

Diffusion

Migration

The Video Connection: West Virginia, Still Home

Globalization

Nature–Culture

Environmental Determinism

Possibilism

Environmental Perception

Humans as Modifiers of the Earth

Subject to Debate: Human Activities and Global Climate Change

Cultural Landscape

World Heritage Site: The Great Zimbabwe National Monument

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Space, Place, and Knowing Your Way Around

Experiential Learning: The Privatization of Public Space

Seeing Geography: Noyo Harbor in Northern California

Chapter 2 Geographies of Cultural Difference: One World or Many?

Region

U.S College Sports

Ice Hockey

Lacrosse

Volleyball

Indigenous Culture Regions

North American Indigenous Culture Regions

Central and South American Indigenous Culture Regions

South Asian Indigenous Culture Regions

LGBT Districts

The Video Connection: An Attack on Equality

Mobility

Vampire Tourism

The Curse of Dracula, Revisited

Cashing In on the Count

Sudanese Diaspora Culture

Subject to Debate: Mobile Identities: Questions of Culture and Citizenship

Barriers to the Movement of Digital Information

Globalization

The Differing Experiences of Time and Space

Are Cultures Homogenizing Under Globalization?

Local Indigenous Cultures Go Global

Nature–Culture

Indigenous Ecology and Property Rights

Indigenous Technical Knowledge

Indigenous Encounters with the Global Economy

Folk Ecology

Nature and Gender

Nature in Popular Culture

Animal Geographies

Cultural Landscape

Folk Architecture in North America

World Heritage Site: Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Folk Architecture Around the World

Nipa Huts of the Philippines

Ndebele Painted Houses of Southern Africa

Landscapes of Consumption

Leisure and Amenity Landscapes

Working Landscapes

Ranching Landscapes of the West

The Wine Country of California

The “Old West” Versus the “New West”

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Place Image in the Media

Experiential Learning: Self-Representation of Indigenous Culture

Seeing Geography: Camping in the “Great Outdoors”

Chapter 3 Population Geography: A Demographic Portrait

Region

Population Distribution and Density

Patterns of Natality

Patterns of Mortality

The Demographic Transition

Age Distributions

The Geography of Gender

Subject to Debate: Female: An Endangered Gender?

Mobility

Migration

The Video Connection: Paraíso

Diseases on the Move

Globalization

Population Explosion?

Malthus Versus the Cornucopians

The Slowdown of World Population Growth

The Rule of 72

Population Control Programs

Nature–Culture

The Environmental Influence on Population

Environmental Perception and Its Impact on Settlement and Migration

Population Density and Environmental Alteration

Environmental Changes in Mexico City

Environmental Refugees

Geography @ Work: Aaron Hoard, Deputy Director, Office of Regional and Community Relations, University of Washington

Cultural Landscape

Diverse Settlement Types

World Heritage Site: Pico Island Vineyard

Landscapes and Demographic Change

Depopulation in History: Ancient Rome

Bogotá Rising

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Refugee Movements

Experiential Learning: Public Space, Personal Space: Too Close for Comfort?

Seeing Geography: Kolkata, India

Chapter 4 The Geography of Language: Locating the Spoken Word

Region

Language Classifications

Language Families

Indo-European Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Language Family

Other Major Language Families

Mobility

Indo-European Diffusion

Migration and the Survival of Language

Subject to Debate: Imposing English

Religion and Linguistic Mobility

Language’s Shifting Boundaries

Globalization

The Video Connection: Who Speaks Wukchumni?

Technology, Language, and Empire

Texting and Language Modification

Language Proliferation: One or Many?

Language and Cultural Survival

Nature–Culture

Habitat and Vocabulary

Natural Environment and Language Sounds

Habitat Helps Channel Language

Habitat Provides Refuge

Cultural Landscape

Linguistic Landscapes and Their Messages

Toponyms

Generic Toponyms of the United States

Toponyms and Cultures of the Past

The Political Economy of Toponyms

World Heritage Site: Alhambra, Generalife, Albayzín

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Listening to the Dialects of English

Experiential Learning: Exploring the Political Economy of Purchased Place-Names

Seeing Geography: Feisbuquear: “To Facebook”

Chapter 5 Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl?

Region

Race or Ethnicity: What’s the Difference?

Race

Subject to Debate: Racism: An Embarrassment of the Past, or Here to Stay?

Ethnicity

Ethnic Homelands and Islands

Ethnic Neighborhoods and Racialized Ghettos

Recent Shifts in Ethnic Populations

Mobility

Migration and Ethnicity

Forced Migration

World Heritage Site: Island of Gorée

Return Migration

Everyday Mobility and Race

The Video Connection: An Education in Equality

Globalization

A Long View of Race and Ethnicity

Race and European Colonization

Twentieth-Century Genocides

Indigenous and Minority Identities in the Face of Globalization

Nature–Culture

Cultural Preadaptation

Cultural Simplification and Isolation

Habitat and the Preservation of Difference

Environmental Racism

Cultural Landscape

Urban Ethnic Landscapes

The Re-Creation of Ethnic Cultural Landscapes

Cuban Americans in Miami

Geography @ Work: Vivian Gonzalez, Morning Meteorologist, WSVN Channel 7, Miami, Florida

Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans

History and Race in the Cultural Landscape

Ethnic Culinary Landscapes

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Understanding Implicit Biases

Experiential Learning: Tracing Ethnic Foodways Through Recipes

Seeing Geography: America’s Ethnic Foodscape

Chapter 6 Political Geography: A Divided World

Region

A World of Nation-States

The Idea of the Nation-State

Multinational States, Multistate Nations

Geographic Variation in Nation-State Territories

Shape and Configuration

Types of Boundaries

Territorial Coherence and Fragmentation

Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

Separatist Movements

Irredentist Movements

Stateless Nations

Internal Organization of Territory

Geography and the Vote

Gerrymandering

Red States, Blue States

Mobility

The Diffusion of Political Authority

The Diffusion of Political Innovation

The Forced Mobility of Violent Conflict

Ethnic Cleansing

Armed Conflict

International Response

Transborder Mobility in Cyberspace

Subject to Debate: Whither the Political Promise of the Internet?

Globalization

Globalization and Sovereignty

Supranational Political Bodies

The Condition of Transnationality

Nature–Culture

State Policies and Land Management

Geopolitics

The Heartland Theory

Buffer and Satellite States

Geopolitics Today

Rising Seas, Changing Borders

The Video Connection: Vanishing Island

Estimates of Sea Level Rise

Territorial Seas

National Militaries and the Environment

Cultural Landscape

Legal Codes and National Landscapes

Border Landscapes

National Iconography in the Landscape

World Heritage Site: Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Center of the Tiwanaku Culture

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: The Role of Twitter Bots in Democratic Elections

Experiential Learning: The Complex Geography of Congressional Redistricting

Seeing Geography: Art in the Borderland

Chapter 7 The Geography of Religion: Spaces and Places of Sacredness

Region

Classifying Religions

Proselytic and Ethnic Religions

Monotheistic and Polytheistic Religions

Syncretic and Orthodox Religions

Subject to Debate: Religious Fundamentalism

Religious Culture Regions

Judaism

Christianity

The Video Connection: Bible Belt Atheist

Islam

Hinduism

Buddhism

Taoic Religions

Animism

Mobility

The Semitic Religious Hearth

The Indus-Ganges Religious Hearth

The East Asian Religious Hearth

Religious Pilgrimage

Globalization

The Rise of Evangelical Protestantism in Latin America

Religion on the Internet

Religion’s Relevance in a Global World

Nature–Culture

Appeasing the Forces of Nature

The Impacts of Belief Systems on Plants, Animals, and Food

Geography @ Work: Robert Szypko, First-Grade Teacher, Success Academy, Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York

Ecotheology

Judaism and Christianity and Nature

Buddhism and Hinduism and Cremation

Ecofeminism

Cultural Landscape

Religious Structures

Faithful Details

Landscapes of the Dead

Sacred Spaces

World Heritage Site: The Old City of Jerusalem and Its Walls

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Navigating the Religious Landscape of the United States

Experiential Learning: The Making of Sacred Spaces

Seeing Geography: Parking Lot Shrine

Chapter 8 The Geography of Agriculture and Food: Shaping the Land, Feeding the World

Region

Classifying Agricultural Practices

Crop-Based Systems

Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

Paddy Rice Farming

Cereal–Root Crop Mixed Farming

Plantation Agriculture

Market Gardening and Truck Farming

Grain Farming

Animal-Rearing Systems

Pastoralism

Livestock Ranching

Livestock Fattening

Dairying

Other Food Production Systems

Urban Agriculture

Aquaculture

Nonagricultural Food Production

The Von Thünen Model

Mobility

Ancient Origins and Diffusion of Domestication

Plant Domestication

Animal Domestication

Modern Diffusions

Agricultural Labor Mobility

Globalization

The Global Food System

Historical Perspective

Agricultural Industrialization and Technological Changes

The Rise of Multinational Corporations in Agriculture

Problems and Alternatives

The Persistence of Food Deprivation

Food Fears

Alternatives to the Global Food System

Nature–Culture

The Environmental Costs of Industrial Agriculture

The Limits of Industrial Water Control

Agrichemicals: Faustian Bargain?

Agriculture and Global Climate Change

The Unfolding Effects of Climate Change

The Effects of Agriculture on Climate

Reducing Agriculture’s Environmental and Health Damage

Sustainable Agriculture

Don’t Panic, It’s Organic

The Video Connection: The Marijuana Divide

Green Fuels from Agriculture

Subject to Debate: Can Biofuels Save the Planet?

Cultural Landscape

Cadastral Surveys and Field Patterns

Fencing and Hedging

Agricultural Landscape Protection

World Heritage Site: Honghe Hani Rice Terraces

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Analyzing the Geography of Foodborne Outbreaks

Experiential Learning: The Global Geography of Food

Seeing Geography: Reading Agricultural Landscapes

Chapter 9 Development Geography: Transforming Landscapes of Well-Being

Region

A Brief History of Development

Stages of Economic Growth

World Systems Theory

Many Worlds

A Contemporary Approach to Development

Measuring Development

Economic Measures of Development

Development as Quality of Life

The Sustainable Development Goals

Development, Freedom, and Happiness

Categorizing Types of Economic Activity by Sector

Development Actors

Mobility

Transportation and Industrialization

Geography @ Work: Matthew Toro, Director of Map, Imagery, and Geospatial Services, Arizona State University

Transportation and the Colonial Legacy

Transportation Haves and Have-Nots

Singapore: A Transportation Infrastructure Reboot

The United States: A Transportation Infrastructure Left Behind

Nicaragua: The Hovering Elite

Globalization

Postdevelopment and the Rise of the Global South

Technology and the Global South

The Video Connection: Wiring the Amazon

Gender, Globalization, and Development

Subject to Debate: Microfinance and Development

Celebrities and Development

Nature–Culture

Renewable Resource Crises

World Heritage Site: Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes

Global Climate Change

The Environmental Consequences of Powering Industrialization

Renewable Energy Sources

China’s Harmful Air Quality

Cultural Landscape

Cultural Landscapes of Resource Extraction

Cultural Landscapes of Industry and Services

Emerging Cultural Landscapes of the Internet

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Development by the Numbers

Experiential Learning: The Where and Why of What You Wear

Seeing Geography: Mapping the Life of a Smartphone

Chapter 10 Urban Geography: A World of Cities

Region

Patterns and Processes of Urbanization

The Rise of Cities

Urban Hearth Areas

Imperialism and Urbanization

Cities and Conquest

Ancient Empires and Imperial Expansion

Cities of the Industrial Revolution

Modern Urban Locations

Mobility

Rural-to-Urban Migration

World Heritage Site: Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountains and the Sea

When Are Cities Too Large?

Urban Primacy

Urban Transportation

The Downsides to Urban Car Culture

Globalization

Global Cities

The Globalization of Urban Wealth and Poverty

Nature–Culture

Urban Weather and Climate

Urban Hydrology

Urban Vegetation

Cities and Environmental Vulnerability

Environmental Effects

Subject to Debate: Can Urbanization Be Environmentally Sustainable?

Natural Disasters

Urbanization, Sustainability, and Resilience

Cultural Landscape

Gentrification

Economic Factors

Political Factors

Sexuality and Gentrification

The Costs of Gentrification

The Livable City

The Right to the City

The Video Connection: “Vic Invades”: The Life of an Urban Explorer

Conclusion

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Doing Geography

Active Learning: Adapting to Climate Change

Experiential Learning: Create a Walking Tour of Your Urban Landscape

Seeing Geography: Melbourne, Australia

Appendix: The Language and Meaning of Maps

Glossary

References

Index

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