Geography from GlobalAcademics

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1980. Classic comprehensive text presents a preeminent study of ecology and environmental management from the perspective of physical geography. Text examines the basics of ecology and the relationships between biotic and abiotic components of the environment; approaches and problems of environmental planning and management in light of conflicting priorities and based on the principles of ecology.… Read more about this item

Albany, New York: OnWord Press, 1995. This guidebook ties ArcCAD version 11.4 to AutoCAD Release 13, linking the GIS software package to the CAD modelling package. Case studies cover how ArcCAD is ued for municipal parcel mapping, a road widening project, and a utilities maintenance system. Topics include: creating spatial data and maps; creating a topology and a database; querying… Read more about this item

Albany, New York: OnWord Press, 2000. Comprehensive updated text based on new ArcView GIS 3.1 and 3.2 functionality, INSIDE ArcView GIS, 3rd Edition, continues to meet the needs of individuals who want to learn to use ArcView GIS "out of the box" to access maps and display geographic information. By consulting detailed examples and working independently through success-proven tutorials, INSIDE… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly text presents detailed essays which focus on improved methods which measure internal migration and analyzing the spatial dynamics through which internal migration affects national settlement systems. Topics cover regularities in age patterns of migration; population projection methods; urbanization and settlement patterns. 359 pp. Illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1985. Scholarly text presents a detailed approach by the author to regional spatial analysis that can assist planners and policymakers build the productive and service capacity of settlements in rural regions. Includes discussions of methods of regional resource, settlement system, and spatial linkage analysis that identify and locate investments in productive activities; social services, and physical… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1990. Scholarly text will acquaint historians, anthropologists and sociologists with a discourse that questions the prioritizing of the temporal over the spatial - the historical over the geographical. The author argues that neither the study of history nor the execution of social or cultural analysis can be divorced from human-geographical inquiry. He contends that all processes… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly study reopens the debate about the size of the Valley Mexico's indigenous population before the Spanish conquest and the scale and rate of its decline thereafter. The author assesses population size, based upon a computer-generated simulation of the response of the indigenous population to a variety of factors that determined its eventual collapse. Factors… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed study of the human geography of one of America's most paradoxical and enigmatic regions- Appalachia. Includes topics covering the region's social and economic development; regional diversity; physical geography; settlement and culture patterns; population growth and characteristics; renewable and nonrenewable resources; recreation and development; manufacturing and industry; transport patterns and… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Comprehensive scholarly text covers a broad range of interdisciplinary issues from methods of geography to examples of practical work done by geographers in Russia and the former republics and the United States. Text covers topics on quatitative technique, methodology, relationships between changes and theory building, applications of geography in Soviet and U.S. schools, etc. 159… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed analytical interpretation and reconstruction of the geographical dimensions of demographic patterns and processes in Nueva Vizcaya, known in the eighteenth century as the Intendancy of Durango, the most ecologically and economically diverse region of northern New Spain- now Mexico. Topics covered include: historical, demographic and geographic background; population distribution,… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Comprehensive reference text presents detailed coverage of political, physical, economic, historical, and cultural aspects of South Asia; primary emphasis is on India, secondary emphasis on Pakistan and Bangladesh, followed by Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Nepal. Topics covered include climatology; religion; political and administrative systems; agriculture and industry; natural resources; transportation; demographic characteristics; historical setting for… Read more about this item

Essex, U.K.: Bowker Publishing, 1976. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed study of the development of the Iranian city of Kashran, including aspects of settlement patterns; population trends; housing; health facilities; education; occupational and social structures; urban morphology; industry; trade; commerce; urban ecology; land use; etc. 166 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

Beirut, Lebanon: Al-Risalah, 1973. Classic scholarly historical text contains early geographical writings from 800 to 1150, including descriptions of some localities in the Northern Hijaz by the Arab geographers of that period; descriptions of the pilgrim routes in that area; a general survey of information and characteristics; rise and decline of towns and villages in the Northern Hijaz; dependencies of… Read more about this item

Republic of Slovenia: Geografski Institut Antona Melika, 2003. Comprehensive reference text presents current research in scientific geography, and includes topics in the importance of the division of the countryside in stimulating regional development; starting points for the monitoring and evaluation of regional policy in Slovenia; ; legislation in the field of regional policy in Slovenia and an analysis of its… Read more about this item

Indiana: Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing/Purdue University, 1978. Comprehensive study designed to assess the feasibility of utilizing Lansat data in tropical forest areas- two study areas selected are in Bolivia and Taiwan; emphasis given to evaluating data availability and information content of the Landsat data; and cost- effectiveness of using manual and computer aided analysis techniques. Topics covered include… Read more about this item

Academic Book Center,Inc., 1979. Graphic description and analysis of three principal sections covering Historical and Cultural Geography, Economic systems, and the Natural Environment. The Reference section includes a 3000 place-name gazetteer, and a set of 1:1 million scale reference maps. 191 pgs. 175 full color maps. Small closed tear on upper spine; minor water stain on lower spine edge and… Read more about this item

Boulder,CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Text presents a detailed scholarly study in the geography of poverty, the seasonal flux of peasants whom leave their villages following the rainy season, to work in the informal economies of West African cities. Includes intensive analyses and accounts of famine, drought, and poverty statistics. 266 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As… Read more about this item

Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1963. Classic comprehensive text contains detailed sections on the soil-climatic, vegetation, natural-economic, topographical, taxonomical characteristics of the various zoning regions in the U.S.S.R. including the Polar belt, the Boreal belt, the Subboreal belt, the Subtropical belt, etc. 480 pgs. Stamped on front endpapers, and lightly on outer edges. Top edge of spine has a… Read more about this item