Human Geography in Action - Couverture souple

Michael-kuby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470484799 ISBN 13 : 9780470484791

Synopsis

The new fifth edition enhances coverage in the field by enabling economists and political geographers to work online with GIS maps, spreadsheets, simulations, and animated graphs. The book has been updated to use maps of traditional foods and vernacular phrases for soft drinks to illustrate culture regions. Expanded discussions of migration include a look at international immigration. New material is also presented on the local food movement and the breakdown in negotiations for agricultural trade agreements at the Doha trade summit. In addition, economists and political geographers will find key terms throughout the chapters such as creative class, outsourcing, substitution of capital for labor, and transit–oriented development.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Put Human Geography in Action with this updated, interactive CD

"Learning by doing" is the exciting new way to experience human geography! The CD included with your textbook will enable you to analyze and interpret geographic information and develop real–world skills. You′ll have fun as you interact with activities that are filled with animated graphics, rich color, and powerful analytical tools. The second edition CD offers more activities, updated data, new tools, and an easy–to–use, web–browser interface!

With this book and CD You′ll be able to:

• Customize maps of ethnic populations in the United States and Canada using the power of GIS (now with 2000 Census data).
• Analyze the effects of globalization on agriculture in Mexico and the Amazon using digital satellite images.
• Overlay maps of different cultural traits to define the Middle East and American Southwest culture regions using geographic information systems(GIS).
• Simulate India′s demographic future under different fertility assumptions.
• Debate five real–world planning scenarios for channeling urban sprawl in Colorado springs.
• Also add new baseball franchises, watch AIDS spread, predict migration to our state, map segregation patterns, take a virtual urban field trip, and analyze environmental systems.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Kuby received an A.B. from The University of Chicago in 1980 and a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1988, both in geography. He has taught at Arizona State University since 1988, where he is an Associate Professor. He is interested in all aspects of transportation and energy, but specializes in transport optimization models. He has developed models for network design, facility location, routing, technology choice, and cost–environment tradeoffs using operations research techniques such as linear and multiobjective programming. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and NASA. Notable among these is the World Bank′s China Coal Transport Study, which won a Citation Award in 1993 from the Applied Geography Specialty Group and was a Finalist in 1994 for the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He has published on coal transportation and utilization, hazmat and solid waste systems, air package delivery networks, railway network planning, and container shipping ports in journals such as the Transportation Research, the Annals of the AAG, Energy, Geographical Analysis, Economic Geography, Annals of Management Science, Interfaces, and Location Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470484799
• ISBN 13: 9780470484791
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible