Lisa Benton-Short (George Washington University Maryland USA), John Rennie Short (University of Maryland Baltimore County USA), Chris Mayda

A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada

Toward a Sustainable Future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text offers a comprehensive discussion of the physical and human geography of the United States and Canada, weaving in the key themes of environment and sustainability throughout.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 229mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 2030g
• ISBN-13: 9781442277182
• ISBN-10: 1442277181
• Artikelnr.: 51140720

Autorenporträt

By Lisa Benton-Short; John Rennie Short and Chris Mayda

Inhaltsangabe

Detailed Contents List of Illustrations Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition Part One Moving toward Sustainability: Themes
1 Fundamental Concepts: Regions and Ecoregions 2 Fundamental Concepts:
Sustainability 3 Regions: The Physical Context 4 Regions: The Human Context
Part Two Moving toward Ecoregions: Places 5 The Canadian Corridor: A Shift
in Core Value 6 The North Atlantic Provinces and Northern New England: New
Economic Hopes 7 Megalopolis: Setting Sustainable Standards 8 Appalachia:
Trying to Love the Mountains 9 South Atlantic: Gentry Tidewater,
Hardscrabble Piedmont, and the Northern Invasion of Dixie 10 Florida: A
Victim of Its Own Geography 11 Gulf Coastal Plains and Mississippi Valley:
Juxtaposition Squared 12 The Ozarks: Unexpected Economic Miracles 13 The
Midwest: Corn, Cars, Conundrums, and Hope 14 The Great Plains and Canadian
Prairie: Land of Opportunity, or Where the Buffalo Roam? 15 The Rocky
Mountains: High in Elevations, Aspirations, and Appreciation 16
Intermontane: Baked, Beguiling, and Booming 17 Pacific Northwest:
Environment as Lifestyle 18 Arctic Slope, Pacific Borderlands, and Boreal
Forest: Feeling the Heat 19 California: Having It All, and Then Some 20
Hawai'i: Aloha Glossary Index About the Authors