Human Geography in Action - Softcover

Kuby, Michael; Harner, John; Gober, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471430552 ISBN 13: 9780471430551

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

Get students motivated, engaged, and actively involved with Kuby, Harner, and Gober\′s new Third Edition of Human Geography in Action. The text offers an innovative, active–learning approach that allows students to experience the field of human geography first hand. Each of the text\′s 14 chapters launches the student and instructor into a flexible multi–part activity that requires students to do geography as a social science. Interactive software on the accompanying CD (newly redeveloped for the Third Edition) enables students to work with GIS maps, spreadsheets, simulations, and animated graphs, without requiring them to learn different software packages.

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Review

"...clearly explains the complexity of water resources in a highly engaging and thorough manner..."(Water Resources Development, Vol.19, No.1, 2003)

About the Author

Michael Kuby received an A.B. from The University of Chicago in 1980 and a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1988, both in geography. He has taught at Arizona State University since 1988, where he is an Associate Professor. He is interested in all aspects of transportation and energy, but specializes in transport optimization models. He has developed models for network design, facility location, routing, technology choice, and cost–environment tradeoffs using operations research techniques such as linear and multiobjective programming. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and NASA. Notable among these is the World Bank′s China Coal Transport Study, which won a Citation Award in 1993 from the Applied Geography Specialty Group and was a Finalist in 1994 for the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He has published on coal transportation and utilization, hazmat and solid waste systems, air package delivery networks, railway network planning, and container shipping ports in journals such as the Transportation Research, the Annals of the AAG, Energy, Geographical Analysis, Economic Geography, Annals of Management Science, Interfaces, and Location Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471430552
• ISBN 13: 9780471430551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 496