TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Blij, Harm
TI  - Why geography matters: More than ever 
SN  - 9780199913749
AV  - GF 503 .D4 2012 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - TERRORISM
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index.; Why geography matter ... more than ever -- Reading maps and facing threats -- Geography and demography -- Geography and climate change -- Climate, place and fate -- The Geography behind war and terror -- Interpreting terrorism's geographic manifestations -- Red star rising : China's geopolitical gauntlet -- Europe : superpower in the making or paper tiger of the future -- Russia : trouble on the Eastern front -- Africa in globalizing world
N2  - Despite increasing global interconnectivity and an accelerated pace of change, we are less informed and less knowledgeable about geography than ever. Most of us go from kindergarten through college without taking a single geography class. As Harm de Blij argues persuasively, such geographic illiteracy poses a huge risk. In this second edition of his now-classic book, de Blij shows just how much geography does matter -- illuminating topics from the burgeoning power of China to the troubling disarray of the European Union, from the dangerous nuclear ambitions of North Korea to the revolutionary hopes of the Arab Spring
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