Harm De Blij: 3 books
Why Geography Matters
More Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial...
Why Geography Matters
Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency...
The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born...