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21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook
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21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook

Two Volume Set
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July 2014 | 920 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Via approximately 80 entries, the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on geography highlights the most important topics, issues, questions and debates any student obtaining a degree in this field need to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. The purpose is to provide undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not so much jargon, detail, or density as a journal article or a research handbook chapter.

Key features:

- Curricular-driven to provide students with initial footholds on topics of interest in writing essays and dissertations, in consulting to determine directions to take in pursuing a senior thesis, graduate degree and so on

- Comprehensive to offer full coverage of major subthemes and subfields within the discipline of geography, including regional geography, physical geography, global change, human and cultural geography, economic geography and locational analysis, political geography, geospatial technology, cartography, spatial thinking, research methodology, geographical education and more.

- Uniform in chapter structure to make it easy for students to locate key information, with a more-or-less common chapter format of Introduction, Theory, Methods, Applications, Comparison, Future Directions, Summary, Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading, and Cross References.

- Available in print and electronic formats to provide students with convenient, easy access.

"Aimed at undergraduates, the writing is less technical and more accessible to nonspecialists than in some books on the subject. Any of the chapters would serve as an excellent introduction to a given topic."

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Joseph P. Stoltman

Joseph Stoltman (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is editor of Research in Geographic Education and co-editor of International Research in Geography & Environmental Education.  He was a member of the design and development team and evaluator for Activities and Readings in the Geography of the United States (ARGUS) and Activities and Resources for the Geography of the World (ARGWorld), both NSF-supported projects of the Association of American Geographers.  His current research includes the analysis and mapping of the impact of content standards and statewide assessment on geography inclusion and student geography achievement in Michigan. ... More About Author

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ISBN: 9781412974646
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