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Author De Blij, Harm J.

Title Why geography matters : three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism / H. J. de Blij
Published New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description xii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Why geography matters -- 2. Reading maps and facing threats -- 3. Earth's changeable environments -- 4. Climate and civilization -- 5. A future geography of human population -- 6. The mesh of civilizations -- 7. Red star rising : China's geopolitical gauntlet -- 8. Terrorism's widening circle -- 9. From terrorism to insurgency -- 10. European superpower? -- 11. Russia : trouble on the eastern front -- 12. Hope for Africa?
Summary "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 become the world's most geographically illiterate society of consequence - and demonstrates that this geographic illiteracy is a direct risk to America's national security."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-286) and index
Subject Human geography -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Terrorism -- History -- 21st century.
Climatic changes -- History -- 21st century.
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009100039
LC no. 2004030369
ISBN 0195183010