"This work was first published by Oxford University Press in 2005 as Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America."

Ever since humans sketched primitive maps in the dirt, the quest to understand our surroundings has been fundamental to our survival. Studying geography reveale

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by s

Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environment

As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymaker