Gregory Knapp

Latin America in the 21st Century

Challenges and Solutions
Herausgeber: Knapp, Gregory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases the achievements of geographers in helping understand and solve major problems facing Latin America. Chapters cover a variety of topics from conservation to transportation to gender. Each chapter is written by an expert in the geography of Latin America. The chapters include case studies of recent problems or issues in Latin America and provide examples of geographic research that has helped illuminate or solve these problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780292743472
• ISBN-10: 0292743475
• Artikelnr.: 25076776

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gregory Knapp

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction (Gregory Knapp)
* 1. North American Reflections on Latin Americanist Geography (Daniel
W. Gade)
* 2. Feeding a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile Planet
(William E. Doolittle, Andrew Sluyter Eric P. Perramond, Phil L.
Crossley, and Dean P. Lambert)
* 3. Transportation Challenges for Latin America in the 21st Century
(David J. Keeling)
* 4. Geographies of Development in Latin America? (Anthony Bebbington)
* 5. Mapping the Landscape of Gender: Latin Americanist Scholarship on
Women (Kathleen Schroeder)
* 6. Land Change Science: The Contributions of Latin Americanist
Geographers to Global Environmental Change and Sustainability
Research (Jacqueline Vadjunec, Laura Schneider, and B. L. Turner II)
* 7. Conservation and Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Karl S. Zimmerer and Eric P. Carter)
* 8. Mapping the Landscape of Identity (Gregory Knapp and Peter
Herlihy)
* 9. Bernard Q. Nietschmann (William V. Davidson)