Prentice Hall World Geography Textbook Pdf

[Beatrix Gerke]

MartinW. Lewis is a senior lecturer in international history at Stanford University. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Studies in 1979, and received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in geography in 1987. His dissertation, and first book, examined the interplay among economic development, environmental degradation, and cultural change in the highlands of northern Luzon in the Philippines. Subsequently, he turned his attention to issues of global geography, writing (with Karen Wigen) The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (University of California Press, 1997). He is also the co-author of a world geography textbook, Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (Prentice Hall), and is the former associate editor of The Geographical Review. Martin W. Lewis taught at the George Washington University and then at Duke University, where he was co-director of the program in Comparative Area Studies, before coming to Stanford University in the fall of 2002. He writes on current events and issues of global geography and at GeoCurrents.info.

GEA2210 United States & Canada (3) is a regional geography of the two Anglo countries in North America, examining their colonial history, economic development, physical resources, cultural diversity and political debates. Contrasts are made between their social welfare, race relations, military investments, and international trade.

GEA3563 The Mediterranean (3) analyzes the Mediterranean region as a unified totality (southern Europe and North Africa), focusing on historical changes that underpin current geography. Today the region is active with political upheavals, religious tensions, and illegal immigration but still shares commonality in food, culture, climate, and tourism.

GEO1330 Environmental Science (3) explores the causes of local and global environmental problems and their impacts, including resource use, pollution, ecosystems, climate change, and population growth. Contrasted against reversal policies of recycling, renewable energy, and sustainability. Example text: Friedland, Relyea, & Courard-Hauri (2011) Environmental Science: Foundations & Applications (W.H. Freeman). Quizzes. Current event article. Term Paper. No exam. Approved for Liberal Studies III.

GEO1400 Human Geography (3) is an introductory survey of geographic theories, issues and applications from the human perspective. How people interact with each other politically, economically, culturally and socially across distances, scales, and across the natural environment. Global contrasts between urban and rural habitation, local versus transnational trade, and regional uneven economic development. Example text: Rubenstein (2013) The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, (11th Edition) (Prentice Hall). Quizzes. Essays. Project. Exam. Approved for Liberal Studies III and Cross-Cultural Studies (X).

GEO3423 Sports Geography (3) focuses on how space and geography demarcates and represents recreational and professional physical activity. Topophilia (love of place) and loyalty define sporting tribalism for fans, recruiting patterns of players, locational strategies of franchises, and cost/benefits of hosting sporting events. No textbook. Quizzes. Project. No exam.

GEO3502 Economic Geography (3) examines the geography of economic activity at local, national, and global scales: historical development of capitalism, regional development, spatial structure of agriculture, manufacturing and services, the global economy, third world poverty, and population growth. No textbook. Tests. Exams.

GEO4162C Spatial Data Analysis (3) is an introduction to the quantitative analysis of geographic data using basic descriptive statistics, spatial pattern analysis, and intrinsic linear relationships between geographic variables. Example text: McGrew, Lembo & Monroe (2014) An Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving in Geography (3rd edition) (Waveland Press). Quizzes. Statistics project. Exam.

GEO4210 Landforms & Landscapes (3) explores individual geomorphic landforms which create large-scale landscapes: how they form, how they change over time, and how we describe them. Emphasis is given to how humans interact with these landscapes and how these landscapes can impact human habitation. Example text: Huggett (2011) Fundamentals of Geomorphology (3rd edition) (Routledge). Assignments. Tests. Exam.

GEO4251 Climate Change & Storms (3) is an investigation of severe storms (including hurricanes and tornadoes), and how they form, where they move, and how humans are changing climates to make them more frequent and stronger. Tests, and term project. No textbook.

GEO4300 Biogeography (3) examines the spatial distributions of flora and fauna, ecosystem changes and human interventions such as logging, introducing invasive species, and policies on wilderness preservation. Understanding controls on the spatial and temporal distribution of species and populations will help us to predict and manage how they will change in the future. Example text: MacDonald (2003) Biogeography: Time, Space and Life (Wiley & Sons). Quizzes. Labs. No exam.

GEO4392 Geography of Marine Conservation (3) outlines the major conservation issues in coastal and marine systems worldwide, including the science, management and policy dimensions of marine conservation. It will explore critical conservation problems facing marine ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, and altered ecosystems; and at the same time explore their causes and threats from climate change, overfishing, and other types of natural resource extraction and management failures. Example text: Ray & McCormick-Ray (2014) Marine Conservation: Science, Policy, and Management (Wiley). Quizzes. Midterm exam, Writing Assignment. Exam.

GEO4404 Black Geographies (3) addresses the historical, political, and spatial contexts in which geographies of black populations emerge throughout the United States and beyond. At its core, the course seeks to investigate ways in which black communities throughout the African Diaspora are spatially marginalized, and the ways in which black communities produce space. Therefore, the class will discuss race, racism, alongside conversations of spatial marginalization (e.g. segregation). This course is cross listed with the program in African American Studies. No textbook. Writing Assignments. No Exam.

GEO4421 Cultural Geography (3) explores how the development of society, its customs, language, beliefs, traditions, and political ideologies vary in cohesiveness at local, national, and international scales. No textbook. Approved for Liberal Studies III and Cross-Cultural Studies (X). Tests. Projects. Exam.

GEO4450 Medical Geography (3) applies geographical concepts and techniques to health-related problems, including the ecology of health, disease diffusion, medical cartography, and health care access. Human ecology of disease, epidemiology, transmissible disease systems, pandemic outbreaks, and environmental pollution. Example text: Meade & Emch (2010) Medical Geography (3rd edition) (Guilford Press). Assignments. Test. Term paper. No exam.

GEO4471 Political Geography (3) focuses on the spatial dimensions of political processes from the local to the global level, including nation-states, elections and geopolitics of the world system. No textbook. Test. Exam.

GEO4503 Globalization (3) explores the concepts and processes that define world system connectivity that includes commodity production, labor costs, market exchange, and cultural contradictions. No textbook. Test. Exam.

GEO4700 Transport Geography (3) offers a review of the literature and techniques for the spatial impacts of transportation systems, including functionality, and their role on society, the economy, energy, the environment, and sustainability. Critical concerns with energy consumption, highway congestion, automobile emissions, and transportation security. Example text: Rodrigue, Comtois & Slack (2013) The Geography of Transport Systems (third edition) (Routledge). Assignments. Presentation. Exam.

GIS2040 Essentials of GIS (3) is a review of the basic principles and techniques of geographic information systems (GIS) for students with no or rudimentary knowledge of geographic concepts and practices. Grading is based on assignments and projects. No textbook. This course is NOT for geography or environment & society majors.

GIS3015 Map Analysis (3) is a survey of cartographic representation, how traditional and digital maps are used to navigate and communicate space, and how land is delineated by politics, conflict, society and economics. No Textbook. Exam.

GIS4035 Introduction to Remote Sensing (3) covers the foundations and use of remote sensing for environmental and urban applications. y, various sensing systems, applications, and digital image processing. Corequisite GIS4035L.

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