WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Association of American Geographers 1904–2004

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Environmental Problems and International Democracy....Pages 3-7
Geographies of Power in the Post-Cold War World-System....Pages 9-14
Rural Property Rights in a Peace Process: Lessons from Mozambique....Pages 15-19
Globalization and Protest: Seattle and Beyond....Pages 21-24
Allah’s Mountains: Establishing a National Park in the Central Asian Pamir....Pages 25-30
Energy, Territory, and Conflict: Place-Based Research in the Caucasus....Pages 31-35
Hidden Killers: The Problem of Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance....Pages 37-41
Evaluating the Geographic Compactness of Representational Districts....Pages 43-47
Environmental Conflict, Collaborative Solutions, and the Politics of Geographic Scale....Pages 49-54
Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the American South....Pages 55-60
Banner Headlines: The Fight over Confederate Flags in the American South....Pages 61-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Halting the AIDS Pandemic....Pages 69-73
Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana....Pages 75-79
A Geographic Approach to Identifying Disease Clusters....Pages 81-85
Mortality Rates Across Time: Does Persistence Suggest “Healthy and Unhealthy Places” in the United States?....Pages 87-92
Learning Geography in the Absence of Sight....Pages 93-98
Haptic Soundscapes: Developing Novel Multi-Sensory Tools to Promote Access to Geographic Information....Pages 99-103
The Finnish Kaamos : Escapes from Short Days and Cold Winters....Pages 105-112
Applied Geography in the Provision of Educational Services....Pages 113-117
Spatial Analysis and Modeling for the School District Planning Problem....Pages 119-124
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
A Model for Collaborative Research: Building a Community-University Institute for Social Research....Pages 125-130
Struggling Against Illiteracy in a Global City: The New York Experience....Pages 131-135
Reaching New Standards: Geography’s Return to Relevance in American Education....Pages 137-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Poverty and Geographical Access to Employment: Minority Women in America’s Inner Cities....Pages 145-149
Ethnic Segregation: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences....Pages 151-156
Flat Break-Ups: The British Condominium Conversion Experience....Pages 157-161
The Geography of Environmental Injustice in the Bronx, New York City....Pages 163-169
Commuting, Congestion, and Urban Transport Sustainability....Pages 171-175
Charting Urban Travelers 24–7 for Disaster Evacuation and Homeland Security....Pages 177-182
The Walking Security Index and Pedestrians’ Security in Urban Areas....Pages 183-189
Clean Streets — Clean Waterways: Street Sweeping, Storm-Water Runoff, and Pollution Reduction....Pages 191-196
Reclaiming Brownfield Sites: From Toxic Legacies to Sustainable Communities....Pages 197-202
Land Cover Change in the Seattle Region: Linking Patterns of Growth to Planning Efforts through Land Cover Change Assessments....Pages 203-207
How Smart is Smart Growth? the Case of Austin, Texas....Pages 209-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Cultural Exploration and Understanding: A Framework for Global Business....Pages 217-224
Geography in a Crisis: Perspectives on the Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s....Pages 225-229
Modeling Space for Regional Regeneration: High-Tech Districts in China....Pages 231-235
Why Offshore? Exploring the Geographies of Offshore Financial Centers....Pages 237-241
U.S. Call Centers: The Undiscovered Country....Pages 243-248
Gender and Globalization: Maquila Geographies....Pages 249-253
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Promoting Development in the Canadian North....Pages 255-259
U.S. Land Cover and Land Use Change: 1973–2000....Pages 261-266
Periodic Markets Now and Then....Pages 267-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
The Biodiversity Crisis....Pages 273-277
Bio-Diversity Inventory: Kamiali Wildlife Management Area....Pages 279-285
Anthropogenic Soils and Sustainability in Amazonia....Pages 287-291
Tropical Deforestation....Pages 293-298
Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Characterizing Patterns and Associated Drivers of Change....Pages 299-304
Forest Degradation and Fragmentation within Celaque National Park, Honduras....Pages 305-310
Human Interactions with Ecosystem Processes: Causes of Aspen Decline in the Intermountain West....Pages 311-316
The Colorado River Delta of Mexico: Endangered Species Refuge....Pages 317-320
Geographical Perspectives for Tackling Problems in Wetlands....Pages 321-324
Marine Geography in Support of “Reefs at Risk”....Pages 325-330
The Oculina Banks Experimental Research Reserve: A Habitat Assessment Using Multi-Media and Internet GIS....Pages 331-336
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Geographers and Sustainability: A Missing Connection?....Pages 339-343
The Great Plains and the Buffalo Commons....Pages 345-349
Reducing Energy Shortages and Pollution in China: The World Bank’s Coal Transport Studies....Pages 351-356
Unintended Consequences: The War on Drugs and Land Use and Cover Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon....Pages 357-362
A Geographical Perspective on Coca/Cocaine Impacts in South America....Pages 363-367
Global Environments and Rural Communities: Enhancing Community Conservation Initiatives in East Africa....Pages 369-374
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Water Management in the West: Controlling the Impact of Cumulative Pond Diversions....Pages 375-379
The Conservation Reserve Program: A Solution to the Problem of Agricultural Overproduction?....Pages 381-386
It’s the Overgrazing, Stupid! Destruction of the Global Rangelands....Pages 387-390
Forests and Management: A Case Study in Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS....Pages 391-396
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Excursions Into the Toxic Past....Pages 399-403
Non-Point Sources: Historical Sedimentation and 20th Century Geography....Pages 405-410
Spatial Analysis of Hazardous Fuels and Ecological Decadence....Pages 411-417
Closed Municipal Landfills in Texas: Using GIS to Study Their Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks and Impacts....Pages 419-424
Understanding Pesticide Misuse in Developing Countries....Pages 425-429
The Biogeographic Response to Acid Rain....Pages 431-434
Thinking Outside the Circle: Using Geographical Knowledge to Focus Environmental Risk Assessment Investigations....Pages 435-442
Paleotempestology: Geographic Solutions to Hurricane Hazard Assessment and Risk Prediction....Pages 443-448
Societal Impacts of Blizzards in the Conterminous United States, 1959–2000....Pages 449-454
Coastal Hazards and Barrier Beach Development....Pages 455-460
Bridging Hazards Geography and Political Geography: A Borderland Vulnerability Framework....Pages 461-466
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Ecological Response to Global Climatic Change....Pages 469-473
Global Change and Assessment of the Onset of Spring....Pages 475-480
Understanding Urban Climates....Pages 481-486
Developing Heat-Warning Systems for Cities Worldwide....Pages 487-492
Using Geomorphology to Assess and Enhance Beach Habitat for Horseshoe Crabs....Pages 493-496
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Reconstructing Past Watershed and Ecosystem Development in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 497-501
Water Resource Development on Small Carbonate Islands: Solutions Offered by the Hydrologic Landscape Concept....Pages 503-507
The Hydrodynamic Efficiency of Non-Traditional Levee Protection Methods in the Sacramento River Delta....Pages 509-514
Reclamation of Surface Coal Mined Lands in Northwest Colorado....Pages 515-519
Front Matter....Pages 521-521
Community Mapping As A Solution To Digital Equity....Pages 523-527
Using Historical Gis to Resolve Political Boundary Disputes Along Rivers....Pages 529-534
Toward a Participatory Geographic Information Science....Pages 535-539
Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Promoting Collaborative Natural Resource Management Through Mobile Interactive Gis (Migis)....Pages 541-546
Towards Structured Public Involvement: Enhancing Community Involvement in Transportation Decision Making....Pages 547-552
Gis Evaluation for Field Dissipation in the Northern Wheat Belt....Pages 553-558
Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery....Pages 559-564
Geospatial Contributions to Watershed-Scale Surface Water Quality Modeling....Pages 565-570
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)....Pages 571-575
Front Matter....Pages 577-577
Placing Children at the Heart of Globalization....Pages 579-583
How Do Children Use Representations of Space?....Pages 585-588
Undocumented Immigrants in the 21st Century: Perceptions of Spatial Legitimacy....Pages 589-593
‘Nourishing The Soul’: Geography and Matters of Meaning....Pages 595-599
The Profound Problem of Locating Humanity: The Significance and Implications of Feng-Shui ....Pages 601-605
Alexander von Humboldt and the Origins of Our Modern Geographical View of Earth....Pages 607-611
Natural and Cultural Landscapes: One Heritage or Two?....Pages 613-617
Back Matter....Pages 619-638