WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introducing WorldMinds
1	Environmental problems and international democracy	3
2	Geographies of power in the post-cold war world-system	9
3	Rural property rights in a peace process : lessons from Mozambique	15
4	Globalization and protest : Seattle and beyond	21
5	Allah's mountains : establishing a national park in the Central Asian Pamir	25
6	Energy, territory, and conflict : place-based research in the Caucasus	31
7	Hidden killers : the problem of landmines and unexploded ordinance	37
8	Evaluating the geographic compactness of representational districts	43
9	Environmental conflict, collaborative solutions, and the politics of geographic scale	49
10	Putting memory in its place : the politics of commemoration in the American South	55
11	Banner headlines : the fight over confederate flags in the American South	61
12	Halting the AIDS pandemic	69
13	Detecting spatial clusters of cancer mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana	75
14	A geographic approach to identifying disease clusters	81
15	Mortality rates across time : does persistence suggest "healthy and unhealthy places" in the United States?	87
16	Learning geography in the absence of sight	93
17	Haptic soundscapes : developing novel multi-sensory tools to promote access to geographic information	99
18	The Finnish Kaamos : escapes from short days and cold winters	105
19	Applied geography in the provision of educational services	113
20	Spatial analysis and modeling for the school district planning problem	110
21	A model for collaborative research : building a community-university institute for social research	125
22	Struggling against illiteracy in a global city : the New York experience	131
23	Reaching new standards : geography's return to relevance in American education	137
24	Poverty and geographical access to employment : minority women in America's inner cities	145
25	Ethnic segregation : measurement, causes, and consequences	151
26	Flat break-ups : the British condominium conversion experience	157
27	The geography of environmental injustice in the Bronx, New York City	163
28	Commuting, congestion, and urban transport sustainability	171
29	Charting urban travelers 24-7 for disaster evacuation and homeland security	177
30	The walking security index and pedestrians' security in urban areas	183
31	Clean streets - clean waterways : street sweeping, storm water runoff, and pollution reduction	191
32	Reclaiming Brownfield sites : from toxic legacies in sustainable communities	197
33	Land cover change in the Seattle region : linking patterns of growth to planning efforts through land cover change assessments	203
34	How smart is smart growth? : the case of Austin, Texas	209
35	Cultural exploration and understanding : a framework for global business	217
36	Geography in crisis : perspectives on the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s	225
37	Modeling space for regional regeneration : high-tech districts in China	231
38	Why offshore? : exploring the geographies of offshore financial centers	237
39	U.S. call centers : the undiscovered country	243
40	Gender and globalization : Maquila geographies	249
41	Promoting development in the Canadian North	255
42	U.S. land use and land cover change : 1973-2000	261
43	Periodic markets now and then	267
44	The biodiversity crisis	273
45	Biodiversity inventory : Kamiali wildlife management area	279
46	Anthropogenic soils and sustainability in Amazonia	287
47	Tropical deforestation	293
48	Deforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon : characterizing patterns and associated drivers of change	299
49	Forest degradation and fragmentation within Celaque National Park, Honduras	305
50	Human interactions with ecosystem processes : causes of aspen decline in the intermountain west	311
51	The Colorado River Delta of Mexico : endangered species refuge	317
52	Geographical perspectives for tackling problems in wetlands	321
53	Marine geography in support of "reefs at risk"	325
54	The oculina banks experimental research reserve : a habitat assessment using multi-media and internet GIS	331
55	Geographers and sustainability : a missing connection?	339
56	The great plains and the buffalo commons	345
57	Reducing energy shortages and pollution in China: the World Bank's coal transport studies	351
58	Unintended consequences : the war on drugs and land use and cover change in the Ecuadorian Amazon	357
59	A geographical perspective on coca/cocaine impacts in South America	363
60	Global environments and rural communities : enhancing community conservation initiatives in East Africa	369
61	Water management in the west : controlling the impact of cumulative pond diversions	375
62	The conservation reserve program : a solution to the problem of agricultural overproduction?	381
63	It's the overgrazing stupid! : destruction of the global rangelands	387
64	Forests and management : a case study in Nepal using remote sensing and GIS	391
65	Excursions into the toxic past	399
66	Non-point sources : historical sedimentation and 20th-century geography	405
67	Spatial analysis of hazardous fuels and ecological decadence	411
68	Closed municipal landfills in Texas : using GIS to study their health, safety, and environmental risks and impacts	419
69	Understanding pesticide misuse in developing countries	425
70	The biogeographic response to acid rain	431
71	Thinking outside the circle : using geographical knowledge to focus environmental risk assessment investigations	435
72	Paleotempestology : geographic solutions to hurricane hazard assessment and risk prediction	443
73	Societal impacts of blizzards in the conterminous United States, 1959-2000	449
74	Coastal hazards and barrier beach development	455
75	Bridging hazards geography and political geography : a borderland vulnerability framework	461
76	Ecological response to global climatic change	469
77	Global change and assessment of the onset of spring	475
78	Understanding urban climates	481
79	Developing heat-warning systems for cities worldwide	487
80	Using geomorphology to assess and enhance beach habitat for Horseshoe Crabs	493
81	Reconstructing past watershed and ecosystem development in the coast mountains, British Columbia, Canada	497
82	Water resource development on small carbonate islands : solutions offered by the hydrologic landscape concept	503
83	The hydrodynamic efficiency of non-traditional levee protection methods in the Sacramento River Delta	509
84	Reclamation of surface coal-mined lands in Northwest Colorado	515
85	Community mapping as a solution to digital equity	523
86	Using historical GIS to resolve political boundary disputes along rivers	529
87	Toward a participatory geographic information science	535
88	Empowering indigenous peoples and promoting collaborative natural resource management through mobile interactive GIS (MIGIS)	541
89	Towards structured public involvement : improving community involvement in transportation decision making	547
90	GIS evaluation for field dissipation in the Northern Wheat Belt	553
91	Quantitative spatial analysis of remotely sensed imagery	559
92	Geospatial contributions to watershed-scale surface water quality modeling	565
93	The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP)	571
94	Placing children at the heart of globalization	579
95	How do children use representations of space?	585
96	Undocumented immigrants in the 21st century : perceptions of spatial legitimacy	589
97	'Nourishing the soul' : geography and matters of meaning	595
98	The profound problem of locating humanity : the significance and implications of feng-shui	601
99	Alexander von Humboldt and the origins of our modern geographical view of earth	607
100	Natural and cultural landscapes : one heritage or two?	613
	Index	619