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图书目录:Advisor′s Foreword
Preface To the Student Chapter 1 On the Beach 1-1 The Crowded Beach 1-2 Location and Spatial Organization 1-3 Time and Spatial Diffusion 1-4 Man-Environment Relations 1-5 The World Beyond the Beach 1-6 Models and Paradigms 1-7 Toward Applications PART 1 THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE Chapter 2 The Fertile Planet 2-1 Major Environmental Contrasts 2-2 Toward a Global Pattern 2-3 Minor Environmental Contrasts 2-4 Interpreting Natural Environments Chapter 3 Risks and Uncertainties 3-1 Long-Term Environmental Swings 3-2 Short-Term Environmental Roundabouts 3-3 Middle-Term Mysteries 3-4 Interpreting Environmental Change Chapter 4 Worlds Real and Imagined 4-1 Disk or Sphere? 4-2 Spatial Grids 4-3 Projections, Transformations, and Measurement 4-4 New Developments in Mapping Chapter 5 Sensing and Surveillance 5-1 Nature of Conventional Aerial Photographs 5-2 Improvements in Airborne Surveillance 5-3 Potential Research from Spacecraft 5-4 Spatial Sampling 5-5 Changing Patterns of Environmental Information 5-8 The Information Challenge PART 2 THE HUMAN RESPONSE Chapter 6 Man′s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth 6-1 Reconstructing Man's Environmental Impact 6-2 Man′s Impact at Low Densities 6-3 Man′s Impact at Medium Densities 6-4 Man′s Impact at High Densities 6-5 The Magnitude of Environmental Change 6-6 Future Trends in Land Use Chapter 7 Resources and Population: The Demographic Response 7-1 Dynamics of Population Growth 7-2 Environmental Checks on Growth 7-3 Word Population Trends 7-4 Regional Population Distribution 7-5 Beyond A.D. 2000? Chapter 8 Resources and Location: The Economic Response 8-1 Nature of Natural Resources 8-2 Limited Reserves? 8-3 Resource Extraction and Urban-Industrial Growth 8-4 Resource Processing and Location Theory 8-5 Space as a Resource Chapter 0 Environments and Images: The Cultural Response 9-1 Spatial Variation iri Culture 9-2 Response to Resources and Hazards 9-3 Spatial Images PART 3 THE REGIONAL MOSAIC Chapter 10 The Search for a Regional System 10-1 Regions of Environmental Challenge 10-2 Regions of Human Response Chapter 11 Communes and Isolated States 11-1 Concentration and Dispersal 11-2 Spatial Arrangements Within Communities 11-3 City and Region 11-4 World Cores and Peripheries Chapter 12 Chains and Hierarchies 12-1 Defining Settlements 12-2 Settlements as Chains 12-3 The Christaller Central-Place Model 12-4 Extensions of the Christaller Model Chapter 13 Regional Origins and Dispersals: The Historical Perspective 13-1 Questions of Origin 13-2 Questions of Dispersal 13-3 Questions of Spatial Organization PART 4 INTERREGIONAL STRESSES Chapter 14 Flows and Networks 14-1 Nature of Interregional Flows 14-2 Models of Spatial Interaction 14-3 Flows and Network Structure 14-4 Optimizing Transport Networks Chapter 15 Spatial Diffusion 15-1 The Nature of Spatial Diffusion 15-2 The Basic Hagerstrand Model 15-3 Modified Hagerstrand Model 15-4 Regional Diffusion Studies Chapter 16 Territories and Boundaries 16-1 Interpreting Territorial Limits 16-2 Partition Problems 16-3 Demarcating Boundary Lines 16-4 The Impact of Divisions Chapter 17 Inequalities and Intervention: Toward Regional Planning 17-1 Rich Countries and Poor 17-2 Differentiation Between Countries 17-3 Regional Adjustment 17-4 Local Planning Problems EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE TASK Chapter 18 Ways of Looking Forward 18-1 Short-Term Forecasting 18-2 Long-Term Scenarios and Speculations 18-3 Rear Mirror Traditions Chapter 19 On Going Further in Geography 19-1 Legacy of the Past 19-2 The Present Structure 19-3 The Future Prospect Appendix A Conversion Constants Appendix B Supplementary Regional Reading Appendix C Use of the Book in Introductory Courses Index |