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WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Environmental Problems and International Democracy
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    Chapter 2 Geographies of Power in the Post-Cold War World-System
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    Chapter 3 Rural Property Rights in a Peace Process: Lessons from Mozambique
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    Chapter 4 Globalization and Protest: Seattle and Beyond
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    Chapter 5 Allah’s Mountains: Establishing a National Park in the Central Asian Pamir
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    Chapter 6 Energy, Territory, and Conflict: Place-Based Research in the Caucasus
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    Chapter 7 Hidden Killers: The Problem of Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance
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    Chapter 8 Evaluating the Geographic Compactness of Representational Districts
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    Chapter 9 Environmental Conflict, Collaborative Solutions, and the Politics of Geographic Scale
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    Chapter 10 Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the American South
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    Chapter 11 Banner Headlines: The Fight over Confederate Flags in the American South
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    Chapter 12 Halting the AIDS Pandemic
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    Chapter 13 Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
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    Chapter 14 A Geographic Approach to Identifying Disease Clusters
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    Chapter 15 Mortality Rates Across Time: Does Persistence Suggest “Healthy and Unhealthy Places” in the United States?
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    Chapter 16 Learning Geography in the Absence of Sight
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    Chapter 17 Haptic Soundscapes: Developing Novel Multi-Sensory Tools to Promote Access to Geographic Information
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    Chapter 18 The Finnish Kaamos : Escapes from Short Days and Cold Winters
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    Chapter 19 Applied Geography in the Provision of Educational Services
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    Chapter 20 Spatial Analysis and Modeling for the School District Planning Problem
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    Chapter 21 A Model for Collaborative Research: Building a Community-University Institute for Social Research
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    Chapter 22 Struggling Against Illiteracy in a Global City: The New York Experience
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    Chapter 23 Reaching New Standards: Geography’s Return to Relevance in American Education
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    Chapter 24 Poverty and Geographical Access to Employment: Minority Women in America’s Inner Cities
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    Chapter 25 Ethnic Segregation: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences
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    Chapter 26 Flat Break-Ups: The British Condominium Conversion Experience
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    Chapter 27 The Geography of Environmental Injustice in the Bronx, New York City
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    Chapter 28 Commuting, Congestion, and Urban Transport Sustainability
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    Chapter 29 Charting Urban Travelers 24–7 for Disaster Evacuation and Homeland Security
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    Chapter 30 The Walking Security Index and Pedestrians’ Security in Urban Areas
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    Chapter 31 Clean Streets — Clean Waterways: Street Sweeping, Storm-Water Runoff, and Pollution Reduction
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    Chapter 32 Reclaiming Brownfield Sites: From Toxic Legacies to Sustainable Communities
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    Chapter 33 Land Cover Change in the Seattle Region: Linking Patterns of Growth to Planning Efforts through Land Cover Change Assessments
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    Chapter 34 How Smart is Smart Growth? the Case of Austin, Texas
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    Chapter 35 Cultural Exploration and Understanding: A Framework for Global Business
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    Chapter 36 Geography in a Crisis: Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s
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    Chapter 37 Modeling Space for Regional Regeneration: High-Tech Districts in China
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    Chapter 38 Why Offshore? Exploring the Geographies of Offshore Financial Centers
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    Chapter 39 U.S. Call Centers: The Undiscovered Country
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    Chapter 40 Gender and Globalization: Maquila Geographies
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    Chapter 41 Promoting Development in the Canadian North
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    Chapter 42 U.S. Land Cover and Land Use Change: 1973–2000
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    Chapter 43 Periodic Markets Now and Then
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    Chapter 44 The Biodiversity Crisis
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    Chapter 45 Bio-Diversity Inventory: Kamiali Wildlife Management Area
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    Chapter 46 Anthropogenic Soils and Sustainability in Amazonia
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    Chapter 47 Tropical Deforestation
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    Chapter 48 Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Characterizing Patterns and Associated Drivers of Change
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    Chapter 49 Forest Degradation and Fragmentation within Celaque National Park, Honduras
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    Chapter 50 Human Interactions with Ecosystem Processes: Causes of Aspen Decline in the Intermountain West
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    Chapter 51 The Colorado River Delta of Mexico: Endangered Species Refuge
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    Chapter 52 Geographical Perspectives for Tackling Problems in Wetlands
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    Chapter 53 Marine Geography in Support of “Reefs at Risk”
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    Chapter 54 The Oculina Banks Experimental Research Reserve: A Habitat Assessment Using Multi-Media and Internet GIS
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    Chapter 55 Geographers and Sustainability: A Missing Connection?
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    Chapter 56 The Great Plains and the Buffalo Commons
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    Chapter 57 Reducing Energy Shortages and Pollution in China: The World Bank’s Coal Transport Studies
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    Chapter 58 Unintended Consequences: The War on Drugs and Land Use and Cover Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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    Chapter 59 A Geographical Perspective on Coca/Cocaine Impacts in South America
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    Chapter 60 Global Environments and Rural Communities: Enhancing Community Conservation Initiatives in East Africa
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    Chapter 61 Water Management in the West: Controlling the Impact of Cumulative Pond Diversions
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    Chapter 62 The Conservation Reserve Program: A Solution to the Problem of Agricultural Overproduction?
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    Chapter 63 It’s the Overgrazing, Stupid! Destruction of the Global Rangelands
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    Chapter 64 Forests and Management: A Case Study in Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
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    Chapter 65 Excursions Into the Toxic Past
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    Chapter 66 Non-Point Sources: Historical Sedimentation and 20th Century Geography
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    Chapter 67 Spatial Analysis of Hazardous Fuels and Ecological Decadence
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    Chapter 68 Closed Municipal Landfills in Texas: Using GIS to Study Their Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks and Impacts
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    Chapter 69 Understanding Pesticide Misuse in Developing Countries
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    Chapter 70 The Biogeographic Response to Acid Rain
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    Chapter 71 Thinking Outside the Circle: Using Geographical Knowledge to Focus Environmental Risk Assessment Investigations
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    Chapter 72 Paleotempestology: Geographic Solutions to Hurricane Hazard Assessment and Risk Prediction
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    Chapter 73 Societal Impacts of Blizzards in the Conterminous United States, 1959–2000
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    Chapter 74 Coastal Hazards and Barrier Beach Development
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    Chapter 75 Bridging Hazards Geography and Political Geography: A Borderland Vulnerability Framework
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    Chapter 76 Ecological Response to Global Climatic Change
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    Chapter 77 Global Change and Assessment of the Onset of Spring
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    Chapter 78 Understanding Urban Climates
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    Chapter 79 Developing Heat-Warning Systems for Cities Worldwide
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    Chapter 80 Using Geomorphology to Assess and Enhance Beach Habitat for Horseshoe Crabs
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    Chapter 81 Reconstructing Past Watershed and Ecosystem Development in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
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    Chapter 82 Water Resource Development on Small Carbonate Islands: Solutions Offered by the Hydrologic Landscape Concept
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    Chapter 83 The Hydrodynamic Efficiency of Non-Traditional Levee Protection Methods in the Sacramento River Delta
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    Chapter 84 Reclamation of Surface Coal Mined Lands in Northwest Colorado
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    Chapter 85 Community Mapping As A Solution To Digital Equity
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    Chapter 86 Using Historical Gis to Resolve Political Boundary Disputes Along Rivers
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    Chapter 87 Toward a Participatory Geographic Information Science
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    Chapter 88 Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Promoting Collaborative Natural Resource Management Through Mobile Interactive Gis (Migis)
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    Chapter 89 Towards Structured Public Involvement: Enhancing Community Involvement in Transportation Decision Making
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    Chapter 90 Gis Evaluation for Field Dissipation in the Northern Wheat Belt
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    Chapter 91 Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery
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    Chapter 92 Geospatial Contributions to Watershed-Scale Surface Water Quality Modeling
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    Chapter 93 The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)
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    Chapter 94 Placing Children at the Heart of Globalization
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    Chapter 95 How Do Children Use Representations of Space?
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    Chapter 96 Undocumented Immigrants in the 21st Century: Perceptions of Spatial Legitimacy
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    Chapter 97 ‘Nourishing The Soul’: Geography and Matters of Meaning
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    Chapter 98 The Profound Problem of Locating Humanity: The Significance and Implications of Feng-Shui
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    Chapter 99 Alexander von Humboldt and the Origins of Our Modern Geographical View of Earth
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    Chapter 100 Natural and Cultural Landscapes: One Heritage or Two?
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Chapter title
Ethnic Segregation: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences
Chapter number 25
Book title
WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 2004
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2352-1_25
Book ISBNs
978-1-4020-1613-4, 978-1-4020-2352-1
Authors

David H. Kaplan, Kaplan, David H.

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 50%
Social Sciences 1 50%