Contents: Human vulnerability to 'natural' disasters: a case study of Hurricane Katrina Christine Eriksen Question and answer Why have I been given this? Ten tips to improve data interpretation How can we manage global warming? Noel Castree and Rob Bellamy Making connections Landscapes, climate and disease David Redfern Geography works From geography degree to NHS management Sir Andrew Dillon Carbon update Carbon in the river system Claire Goulsbra Centrepiece The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau megabridge Ollie Davies Restoring peatlands: can increasing a carbon store help us manage floods? Martin Evans Global trade patterns: how are they changing? Jessie Poon Global governance update Scales of governance: climate policy in the USA Simon Oakes Age segregation and place: social inequality in the UK Albert Sabater Geographical skills Getting your sampling right David Holmes NEA ideas Age segregation Martin Evans The big picture Agriculture and water pollution Noel Castree

Contents for this issue: Coral reef ecosystems: monitoring climate change Question and answer Extended writing: ten tips for quality answers What happens to your rubbish? The geography of waste Food security in Detroit: a case study NEA ideas?Measuring surface roughness in natural systems Geographical ideas Interdependence Centrepiece Can London become a National Park? Geographical skills Using photos as evidence in your NEA: presenting and interpreting images Wetlands in drylands: understanding dynamic environments Global development update International trade: changing approaches Making connections Glaciation, climate change and tectonic hazards Measuring development: can we improve on GDP? Index to Volume 21 The big picture Destroying the sense of place in Venice

Covers A Wide Range Of Cultural Concerns Such As-Methodological Statements, Impression Of Culture On Landscape, Cultural Processes And Change, Cultural Traits And Distribution And Cultural Ecology, Has 29 Papers Contributed By Eminent Geographers From Indian And Abroad. Researchers In Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Sociology And History Will Find It Useful.

As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography. As such, it is both a 'state of the discipline' assessment and a topical reference. It includes an introduction by the editors and 47 chapters, each on a specific specialty. The authors of each chapter were chosen by their specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Based on a process of review and revision, the chapters in this volume have become truly representative of the recent scholarship of American geographers. While it focuses on work since 1990, it additionally includes related prior work and work by non-American geographers. The initial Geography in America was published in 1989 and has become a benchmark reference of American geographical research during the 1980s. This latest volume is completely new and features a preface written by the eminent geographer, Gilbert White.

Today Health is an important aspect of human being. Health of the individual is closely related to the various geographical factors. Geographical factors are more influencing and they determine the health of individual and the community. Health is considered as a major determinant of happiness. The link between health and development is very close. Health can be considered as a factor of development. In the two decades preceding, the start of the new millennium, geography as a discipline witnessed an innovative revolution that completely reorganized the traditional boundaries of this field. Building upon its established strengths and embracing the novel ideas and perspectives brought about by the technological boom of the late 1980, geography has expanded into a more robust, recognized, marketable, unified and diversified scientific discipline (Gaile & willmott, 2003).

First published in 1989. It seems such a long time ago, another age—yet it is a mere twenty-odd years since the original Models in Geography was published. It is an even shorter time since the first tentative steps were taken towards an alternative formulation of what might constitute a geographical perspective within the social sciences. What came to be called the political-economy perspective has progressed with remarkable speed and energy to generate its own framework of conceptualization and analysis, its own questions and debates. The papers in these two volumes are witness to the richness and range of the work which has developed over this relatively short period within the political economy approach. Moreover, from being a debate within an institutionally defined ‘discipline of geography’, to introducing into that discipline ideas and discussions from the wider fields of philosophy and social science and the humanities more generally, it has now flowered into a consistent part of enquiries that span the entire realm of social studies.

This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and applications of technologies to the public and private sectors. Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much from us.