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Title:
Geography and technology
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Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004
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9781402018718

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It is particularly appropriate that the AAG's Centennial Celebration should prompt the publication of a volume devoted to Geography and Technology. New technologies have always been important in advancing geographic understanding, but never have they been so thoroughly and rapidly transformative of the discipline as at this stage in geography's evolution. Just as new technologies have profoundly expanded both research possibilities and the knowledge base of other disciplines, such as biology, physics or medicine, so too are the revolutionary new geographic technologies developed during the past few decades extending frontiers in geographic research, education and applications. They are also creating new and resurgent roles for geography in both society and in the university. This trend is still accelerating, as the integration of geographic technologies, such as the global positioning system and geographic information systems (GPS/GIS), is creating an explosion of new "real-time, real-world" applications and research capabilities. The resultant dynamic space/time interactive research and management environments created by interactive GPS/GIS, among other technologies, places geography squarely at the forefront of advanced multidisciplinary research and modeling programs, and has created core organization management tools (geographic management systems) which will dramatically change the way governments and businesses work in the decades ahead. While these and other important geographic technologies, including remote sensing, location-based services, and many others addressed in this book, are forging new opportunities for geography and geographers, they also pose challenges.


Table of Contents

Foreword by Douglas Richardson
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contributing Authors
Color Plates
Part 1 Geography and Technology Interfaces
1 Geography and Technology
2 Communications Technology and the Production of Geographical Knowledge
3 Federal Funding, Geographic Research, and Geographic Technologies: 1904-2004
Part 2 Technologies that Changed Geography
4 The Imbrication of Geography and Technology
5 Computers and Geography
6 Remote Sensing of Selected Biophysical Variables and Urban/Suburban Phenomena
7 New Digital Geographies
Part 3 New Geographies with New Technologies
8 From Globes to GIS
9 Fieldwork in Nonwestern Contexts
10 The Camera and Geographical Inquiry
11 Film Networks and the Place(s) of Technology
12 Motor Vehicles on the American Landscape
13 Airspaces
14 A World on Demand
15 Democracy and Technology
16 Technologies Applied to Public Health
17 "Real" Bodies, "Real" Technologies
18 Geotechnology, the U.S. Military, and War
Part 4 The Environment and Technology
19 Earth Pulses in direct Current
20 The Impact of Technology Upon In Situ Atmospheric Observations and Climate Science
21 Population-Environment Interactions with an Emphasis on Land-Use/Land-Cover Dynamics and Role of Technology
22 Capacity Building and Geographic Information Technologies in African Development
23 Natural Hazards and Technology
Part 5 The Worlds before us
24 The GIS Revolution in Science and Society
25 Why Technology?
Index