Cultural Landscape, The: An Introduction to Human Geography, 9th Edition

• Extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its significance, including description, maps, photos (Chapters 1 and 3)

 

• Substantially rewritten chapters on Development (Chapter 9) and Industry (Chapter 11).

 

• Expanded and updated discussion of key issues covered in earlier editions, including:

– Debate in the United States over migration

– Immigration viewed from the Mexican point of view

– Anti-immigration tensions in Europe

– Middle East tensions

– Health care (including updated maps)

– War in Iraq

– Globalization and its critics

– Trade data

– Organic farming.

 

• New maps, including:

1-1: Katrina impact in New Orleans

2-25: Avian Flu

3-15: U.S. net migration by county

4-5: Istanbul gardens

4-15: Internet users by country

5-1.1: Language of online speakers

5-1.2: Language of e-commerce

6-1.1: Cross-section of West Bank barrier

6-1.2: Route of West Bank barrier

8-2.1: Ethnic groups in Baghdad

8-2.2: Tribes in Iraq

9-5: Cell phones

9-10: Private expenditure on health care

10-16: Change in food and population in Africa

10-17: Undernourishment in Africa

11-16: Production of trousers

11-17: Changing location of U.S. manufacturing

11-21: Labor cost per hour, clothing manufacturing

11-22: Declining clothing production in the United States

13-17: Racial change in Chicago

13-24: Stressed school districts around Cincinnati

14-7: Gas prices

14-12: Production of important minerals

14-16: Electricity from hydroelectric

14-17: Wind power by U.S. state

 

 

 

• New boxes highlighting key topics, including:

– Chapter 1:  

Mash-ups using Google Maps

Hand-held navigation devices

 

– Chapter 3:  

Mexican perspectives on undocumented immigration

 

– Chapter 5:  

Building barriers in the Middle East

 

– Chapter 8:  

Using air photos to make the case for war

Applying the concept of scale to war in Iraq

 

– Chapter 9:  

Wal-Mart in China

 

– Chapter 11:

Locating car parts plants

 

– Chapter 13:

Market segmentation

 

 

• New content on timely topics throughout:

– Chapter 1:

Hurricane Katrina

Discussion of electronic navigation devices

Discussion of mash-ups using computer maps

Several maps drawn on air photos, including 1-3, 1-16, 6-10, and 8-3

 

– Chapter 2:

Coverage of Avian flu

 

– Chapter 3:

Immigration viewed from the Mexican point of view

 

– Chapter 4:

Information on diffusion of Internet usage

 

– Chapter 5:

Information on language used by online users

Language of e-commerce transactions

 

– Chapter 6:

Updated information on Middle East tensions

Coverage of Israel’s West Bank separation wall

 

– Chapter 7:

Coverage of Darfur conflict in Sudan

 

– Chapter 8:

Updated information on current war in Iraq

Coverage of post 9/11 terrorist incidents

 

– Chapter 9

Discussion and maps on use of cell phones

Discussion of Wal-Mart’s connection to China

Discussion of fair trade

 

– Chapter 10:

Plantation agriculture shifted to subsistence agriculture section

 

– Chapter 11.

New Key Issues

Focus on China as world’s leading manufacturing country

Discussion of regional shifts in manufacturing

Importance of changing location factors such as search for cheap labor

 

– Chapter 12.

Focus on services in India

New outline summarizing types of services

 

– Chapter 13.

New focus on problems of older suburbs

New perspectives on improved condition in some U.S. inner cities

Use of market segmentation in retailing

 

– Chapter 14.

Incorporation of recent higher gas prices

Outlook for expanded production of petroleum