Product Description

Includes a variety of research methods both quantitative and qualitative.
∗ Hands–on activities help readers experience human geography as an active, practical field of study and application.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3589345 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
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.

About the Author
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, where he is now an Associate Professor, since 1988. Before writing Human Geography in Action he developed an active–learning module on population and energy for the Commission on College Geography II. His research interests are in transportation, energy and facility location. Kuby has served as Chair of the Transportation Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), and on editorial boards of the Professional Geographer and Journal of Transport Geography. His work with the World Bank on energy transport in China won a Citation Award in Applied Geography in 1993. He has published in such journals as the Annals of the AAG, Energy, Geographical Analysis, Economic Geography, Location Science, and Transportation Research.

JOHN HARNER recieved a B.S. in geography from The Pennsylvania State University in 1986 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in geography form Arizona State University in 1993 and 1996 respectively, Since 1997, he has been an Assistant Professor in the department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His research areas include cultural and urban geography, as well as topical expertise in GIS and regional interests in Mexico and the American Southwest. He has published in such journals as the Annals of the AAG, Professional Geographer, and the Journal of Cultural geography.

PATRICIA GOBER received a B.S. Ed. in geography form the University of Wisconsin–whitewater in 1970, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University in 1972 and 1975 respectively. She is currently a professor of geography at Arizona State University, where she served as chair of the Department of Geography from 1984 to 1991. In 1992, Gober was a visiting professor of geography at University College London. Areas of specialization are population and urban geography. She served as president of the Association of American Geographers in 19987–1998 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Population Reference Bureau and a member of the Social science, Methods, Epidemiology, and Nursing Panel at the National Institute of Health. In 1998, Gober received an honorary doctorate of science from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.