James M. Rubenstein
| A. Geography as a field of inquiry |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| B. Geographical concepts and models |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| C. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective |
Chapter 1 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3 |
| D. Key geographical skills: |
| 1. maps and spatial data |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. implications of associations among phenomena in places |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. different scales and relationships among patterns |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| 4. regions and the regionalization processes |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 2 |
| 5. Changing interconnections among places |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 3 |
| E. Geographic Technologies |
Chapter 1 Key Issue 1 |
| F. Sources of geographical ideas and data |
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| A. Geographical analysis of population |
| 1. density, distribution, and scale |
Chapter 2 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. consequences of various densities and distributions |
Chapter 2 Key Issue 4; Chapter 3 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. patterns of composition: age, sex, race, ethnicity |
Chapter 2 Key Issue 3 |
| 4. population and natural hazards |
Chapter 3 Key Issue 1 |
| B. Population growth and decline over time and space |
| 1. historical trends and projections |
Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4 |
| 2. theories of population growth |
Chapter 2 Key Issues 3 and 4 |
| 3. patterns of fertility, mortality, and health |
Chapter 2 Key Issues 2 and 4 |
| 4. regional variations of demographic transitions |
Chapter 2 Key Issue 3 |
| 5. effects of population policies |
Chapter 2 Key Issue 4; Chapter 3 Key Issue 3 |
| C. Population movement |
| 1. push and pull factors |
Chapter 3 Key Issues 1 and 4 |
| 2. major voluntary and involuntary migrations |
Chapter 3 Key Issues 1, 2, and 4 |
| 3. migration selectivity |
Chapter 3 Key Issue 4 |
| 4. short-term, local movements, and activity space |
Chapter 3 Key Issue 1 |
| A. Concepts of culture |
| 1. traits |
Chapter 4 Key Issue 1; Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3; Chapter 6 Key Issue 1; Chapter 7 Key Issues 1 and 2 |
| 2. diffusion |
Chapter 4 Key Issues 1 and 3; Chapter 5 Key Issue 1; Chapter 6 Key Issue 2; Chapter 7 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. acculturation |
Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issue 2 |
| 4. cultural regions |
Chapter 5 Key Issues 1 and 3; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3; Chapter 7 Key Issue 2 |
| B. Cultural differences |
| 1. language |
Chapter 5 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| 2. religion |
Chapter 6 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| 3. ethnicity |
Chapter 6 Key Issue 4; Chapter 7 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| 4. gender |
Chapter 4 Key Issue 4 |
| 5. popular and folk culture |
Chapter 4 Key Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| C. Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices |
Chapter 4 Key Issues 2 and 4; Chapter 6 Key Issue 3 |
| D. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity |
| 1. values and preferences |
Chapter 4 Key Issues 2 and 4; Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3 |
| 2. symbolic landscapes and sense of place |
Chapter 4 Key Issue 2; Chapter 5 Key Issue 4; Chapter 6 Key Issues 2 and 3 |
| A. Territorial dimensions of politics |
| 1. concept of territoriality |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. nature and meaning of boundaries |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2 |
| 3. influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2 |
| B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern |
| 1. nation-state concept |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. colonialism and imperialism |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. federal and unitary states |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2 |
| C. Challenges to political-territorial arrangements |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 4 |
| 1. changing nature of sovereignty |
Chapter 7 Key Issue 2 |
| 2. fragmentation, unification, alliance |
Chapter 7 Key Issue 2; Chapter 8 Key Issues 2 and 3 |
| 3. spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment |
Chapter 7 Key Issues 2 ,3, and 4; Chapter 8 Key Issue 2 |
| 4. electoral geography, including gerrymandering |
Chapter 8 Key Issue 2 |
| A. Development and diffusion of agriculture |
| 1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. Second Agricultural revolution |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 1 |
| B. Major agricultural production regions |
| 1. agricultural systems associated with bioclimatic zones |
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3 |
| 2. variations within major zones and effects of markets |
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4 |
| 3. linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption |
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 4 |
| C. Rural land use and settlement patterns |
| 1. models of agricultural land us, including von Thünen's model |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 3 |
| 2. settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types |
Chapter 12 Key Issue 1 |
| D. Modern commercial agriculture |
| 1. Third Agricultural Revolution |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4 |
| 2. Green Revolution |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4 |
| 3. Biotechnology |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4 |
| 4. spatial organization and diffusion of industrial agriculture |
Chapter 10 Key Issues 1 and 3 |
| 5. future food supplies and environmental impacts |
Chapter 10 Key Issue 4 |
| A. Key concepts in industrialization and development |
Chapter 9 Key Issues 1, 2 and 3; Chapter 11 Key Issue 2 |
| B. Growth and diffusion of industrialization |
| 1. changing role of energy and technology |
Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4; Chapter 14 Key Issues 1 and 3 |
| 2. Industrial Revolution |
Chapter 11 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. evolution of economic cores and peripheries |
Chapter 11 Key Issue 1 |
| 4. geographic critiques of models of economic localization, industrial location, economic development and world systems |
Chapter 9 Key Issue 4 |
| C. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development |
| 1. spatial Chapter 9 Key Issue 2; Chapter 11 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4organization of the world economy |
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| 2. variations in levels of development |
Chapter 9 Key Issues 1, 2, and 3 |
| 3. deindustrialization and economic restructuring |
Chapter 11 Key Issue 3 |
| 4. pollution, health, and quality of life |
Chapter 14 Key Issue 2 |
| 5. industrialization, environmental change, and sustainability |
Chapter 14 Key Issues 3 and 4 |
| 6. local development initiatives: government policies |
Chapter 11 Key Issue 3 |
| A. Definitions of urbanism |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 1 |
| B. Origin and evolution of cities |
| 1. historical patterns of urbanization |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 1 |
| 2. rural-urban migration and urban growth |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 1 |
| 3. global cities and megacities |
Chapter 12 Key Issue 3 |
| 4. models of urban cities |
Chapter 12 Key Issue 2 |
| C. Functional character of contemporary cities |
| 1. changing employment mix |
Chapter 12 Key Issues 1, 3, and 4 |
| 2. changing demographic and social structures |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3 |
| D. Built environment and social space |
| 1. comparative models of internal city structure |
Chapter 13 Key Issues 2 and 4 |
| 2. transportation and infrastructure |
Chapter 13 Key Issues 3 and 4 |
| 3. political organization of urban areas |
Chapter 13 Key Issues 1 and 4 |
| 4. urban planning and design |
Chapter 12 Key Issue 4; Chapter 13 Key Issue 3 |
| 5. patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and class |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3 |
| 6. uneven development, gentrification, and ghettoization |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 3 |
| 7. impacts of suburbanization and edge cities |
Chapter 13 Key Issue 4 |
