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Author:   Lisa Benton-Short ,  John Rennie Short ,  Chris Mayda ,  Chris Mayda
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 28.60cm
Weight:   2.023kg
ISBN:  

9781442277182

ISBN 10:   1442277181
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   25 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Detailed Contents List of Illustrations Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Part One Moving toward Sustainability: Themes 1 Fundamental Concepts: Regions and Ecoregions 2 Fundamental Concepts: Sustainability 3 Regions: The Physical Context 4 Regions: The Human Context Part Two Moving toward Ecoregions: Places 5 The Canadian Corridor: A Shift in Core Value 6 The North Atlantic Provinces and Northern New England: New Economic Hopes 7 Megalopolis: Setting Sustainable Standards 8 Appalachia: Trying to Love the Mountains 9 South Atlantic: Gentry Tidewater, Hardscrabble Piedmont, and the Northern Invasion of Dixie 10 Florida: A Victim of Its Own Geography 11 Gulf Coastal Plains and Mississippi Valley: Juxtaposition Squared 12 The Ozarks: Unexpected Economic Miracles 13 The Midwest: Corn, Cars, Conundrums, and Hope 14 The Great Plains and Canadian Prairie: Land of Opportunity, or Where the Buffalo Roam? 15 The Rocky Mountains: High in Elevations, Aspirations, and Appreciation 16 Intermontane: Baked, Beguiling, and Booming 17 Pacific Northwest: Environment as Lifestyle 18 Arctic Slope, Pacific Borderlands, and Boreal Forest: Feeling the Heat 19 California: Having It All, and Then Some 20 Hawai’i: Aloha Glossary Index About the Authors

Reviews

A comprehensive review of introductory themes in geography presented through a multi-regional framework to North America. The focus on environmental concerns and sustainability is interwoven throughout the text, and represents a vital aspect of geography that is missing from similar college textbooks.--Donald C. Williams, Western New England University

Praise for the first edition: This engagingly written and comprehensive book has wide appeal beyond the discipline of geography. Mayda does an outstanding job linking geology, geography, economy, and culture to give a sense of the importance of space and how it is configured for the United States and Canada. By relating the basic environmental differences to historic developments, she shows that physical structures and human collective agency are critical to understanding the past and influencing the future of place. It is a work I will recommend to friends and assign to students with the knowledge that good discussions and positive action will follow.--Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University Praise for the first edition: The book uses sustainability to provide an innovative approach to the United States and Canada. By exploring sustainability within the framework of regions, she operates at a scale students will comprehend and infuses each section with current environmental concerns and directions toward solutions.--Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University Praise for the first edition: It's always refreshing to read a book with a new approach to old issues--one that can provide a contemporary student with a different lens to look at environments, landscapes, and peoples. Taking an ecological approach, Chris Mayda highlights the impacts people are having upon processes, landscapes, and regions and the sustainability of these actions over the long haul. Simply but cleverly written, this ambitious text will be valuable for geography majors as well as students across the social sciences.--John Everitt, Brandon University Praise for the first edition: Chris Mayda writes geography with a conscience. What this book demonstrates is not only that natural environments and human cultures vary in space--the conventional fare of geographers--but that our concerns for sustainability, environmental protection, healthy lives, and social justice are also intricately connected with the places we create on the landscape. Regional economies, societies, political systems and ways of thinking come under close scrutiny here for their threats to the pursuit of happiness in America today as well as their promise for better lives and broader liberties.--Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University Praise for the first edition: Honestly, the first college coursebook that I have actually read cover to cover. I used to think I knew a fair amount about the different areas of the country, but each section of the text helped me take a step back.--Beth Kostecki, geography student Praise for the first edition: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada has great depth, is substantive, focuses on appropriate geographical topics/issues, and the flavor of sustainability is appealing.--George Pomeroy, Shippensburg University

A comprehensive review of introductory themes in geography presented through a multi-regional framework for North America. The focus on environmental concerns and sustainability is interwoven throughout the text and represents a vital aspect of geography that is missing from similar college textbooks. -- Donald C. Williams, Western New England University Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie Short have done a masterful job with this major revision of the late Chris Mayda's work. Retaining the best of the first edition, they have embedded that content within a concise and streamlined framework and brought new clarity to key concepts. Students using the second edition should readily grasp the logic behind the book's sustainability focus and appreciate the new features on sustainability best practices and on geospatial illumination of regional issues, alongside Mayda's explorations of systems thinking on environmental problems. The revised edition will serve instructors well for engaged and critical approaches to the teaching of North American regional geography. -- G. Rebecca Dobbs, Western Carolina University The second edition of A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada powerfully and systematically links basic concepts, theories of sustainability, and the importance of place. Social scientists and others interested in why regions are different, how those differences emerge over time, as well as implications for the future will find this book indispensable. -- Cornelia B. Flora, Iowa State University In this second edition, Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie Short very carefully complement the late Chris Mayda's life project with their own distinctive expertise in human geography and urbanization. In doing so, they preserve her personal and intellectual legacy while providing additional insight and expertise. Thus, readers continue to have a book that `has heart,' is built directly from a geographer's travel observations and interactions with the landscape, pays heed to sustainability as perhaps the leading issue of our time. I look forward to my continued use of this book for years to come! -- George Pomeroy, Shippensburg University

Author Information

Lisa Benton-Short is professor and chair of the Department of Geography at George Washington University. John Rennie Short is professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Chris Mayda (d. 2016) was professor of geography and sustainability at Eastern Michigan University.

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