Focusing on the diverse geographical dimensions of Southeast Asia, this collection organizes and presents scholarly works covering a wide range of topics. It delves into cultural-social, economic, historical, physical, political, and urban geography, showcasing the region's complexity and significance to geographers and academics alike.
Focusing on the geographical and locational aspects of agriculture, this volume compiles extensive literature on crop and animal farming, farmland, and related human and environmental issues. It organizes entries from various languages, including English, French, Spanish, and more, ensuring comprehensive coverage of agricultural geography. This resource serves as a valuable reference for understanding the patterns and processes of agricultural activities globally.
Focusing on the geography of South America, this scholarly guide compiles a comprehensive bibliography of academic publications related to the region and its individual nations. It aims to support educators, researchers, and students in their exploration of South American geography, covering countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, among others. The organization of resources encourages ongoing scholarship and enhances the study of this diverse area.
The lands and waters of the Caribbean region have stimulated an extensive body of research and writing across the many fields of geography. This book collects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to aid in the teaching, study, and further scholarship of the geography of this area.
Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America are Mexico and Central America. An area of fascination and study for geographers and scholars from around the world, for millennia these lands and people have played important roles in the discoveries and distributions of civilizations, resources, and nations. These regions have stimulated a large amount of research and publications across the sub-disciplines of geography. The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many of these publications as possible to encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing scholarship of the geography of this area, which includes Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Beginning with the region as a whole, each chapter that follows--one per nation--is divided by the specific sub-disciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is further divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries recorded focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, as well as French, German, and other languages, are included (with entries' titles translated into English and noted accordingly).