TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Blij,Harm J.
TI  - Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism 
SN  - 0195183010
AV  - GF 503 D286w 2005
U1  - 909.83 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Human geography
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Geografía humana
KW  - Globalización
KW  - Cambios climáticos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why geography matters -- Reading maps and facing threats -- Earth's changeable environments -- Climate and civilization -- A future geography of human population -- The mesh of civilizations -- Red star rising: China's geopolitical gauntlet -- Terrorism's widening circle -- From terrorism to insurgency -- European superpower? -- Russia: trouble on the Eastern front -- Hope for Africa?
N2  - Demonstrates how geography's perspectives yield unique and penetrating insights into the interconnections that mark our shrinking world. This book shows how and why the US 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2004030369-b.html
ER  -