WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems

660 pages. Writing on FFEPGeography today is a vibrant amalgam of theories, methods, and data about pas t, current, and emerging worlds. Geography and the geographers who produce it dw ell at the intersection of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the hu manities, and various admixtures of their theories, methods, and data constitute the 100 chapters included in WorldMinds. Arrayed under the rubrics of politics and power, human wellbeing, cities, livelihood, ecosystems, human environment interactions, hazards, natural systems, new methods, and human perceptions, thes e 100 short essays reveal and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of c ontemporary North American geography. As is evident in these rubrics and essays, geography today is a many splendored enterprise ranging, as the editors note, from feminist deconstruc tion to fluvial geomorphology. Geographers have so mething strikingly valuable to say about many, if not most of the problems that confront indi viduals and groups in locales and regions ranging from the plots of smallholders to the entire globe. The diverse chapters of WorldMinds well il lustrate some of the key geographical perspectives that contribute usefully to t he broader understanding of common problems. versary of the Association of American Geographers 1904?2004.…