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Why geography matters : three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism /
"Preparing for climate change, averting a cold war with China, defeating terrorism: all of this requires geographic knowledge. In Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij makes an urgent call to restore geography to America's educational curriculum. He shows how and why the United States has be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why geography matters
- Reading maps and facing threats
- Earth's changeable environments
- Climate and civilization
- A future geography of human population
- The mesh of civilizations
- Red star rising: China's geopolitical gauntlet
- Terrorism's widening circle
- From terrorism to insurgency
- European superpower?
- Russia: trouble on the Eastern front
- Hope for Africa?