Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online

by J. Chris Carter

Overview

Applying new skills to established topics, this is how you want to examine human geography.

 

Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online combines a comprehensive examination of human geography with engaging activities using the ArcGIS Online service.

 

Birth rates are higher in one country than another. Why? Are there patterns? Are there correlations? Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online readers are doers, using sophisticated software to actively explore, analyze, and answer these questions and many more. ArcGIS Online exercises in each chapter dig into those numbers and their spatial relationships, enhancing students’ grasp of geographic concepts.

 

Instructors tailor classroom examples and homework assignments to local geography. Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online bridges classroom lecture and live, current, interactive data for reinforced learning and a hybridized teaching approach.

 

Human geography, meet The Science of Where™.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589485181
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	02/25/2019
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J. Chris Carter is a Professor of Geography at Long Beach City College. He has over 20 years of experience teaching human geography and GIS, as well as courses on world regional geography and economic geography. He has a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, an MBA from California State University, Long Beach, and a PhD in Geography from San Diego State University/University of California, Santa Barbara. His geographic specialty is in Latin American urban and economic change and he has presented research on crime patterns in Long Beach at the Esri Users’ Conference.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Population

Chapter 3: Migration

Chapter 4: Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 5: Urban Geography

Chapter 6: Food and Agriculture

Chapter 7: Manufacturing

Chapter 8: Services

Chapter 9: Development

Chapter 10: Cultural Geography—Folk and Popular Culture, Language, Religion

Chapter 11: Political Geography

Chapter 12: Humans and the Environment—Pollution and Climate Change 

About the Author

Index