Jerome Donald Fellmann

Arthur Getis

Judith Getis

This book introduces college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The authors' approach allows the major research traditions of geography to dictate the principal themes. Chapter 1 introduces students to the four organizing traditions that have emerged through the long history of geographical thought and writing: earth science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis. Each of the four parts of this book centers on one of those geographic perspectives.An access code to PowerWeb is packaged complimentary with every new student and instructor textbook. This website, developed with the help of instructors teaching this course, provides you and your students with curriculum-based materials, updated weekly assessments, informative and timely world news, refereed web links and much more.

Introduction to Geography

Roots and meaning of culture - Spatial interaction and spatial behaviour - Population - Language and religion - Ethnic geography - Folk and popular culture - Livelihood and economy - Patterns of development and change - Urban systems and urban structures - Political ordering of space - Human impacts on natural systems - Wastes - Forests - Clean Air Act - Green revolution - Folk medicines - Oral folk tradition - Minerals.

Judith Getis

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