This book introduces college students to the breadth and spatial insights of the field of geography. The authors' approach allows the major research traditions of geography to dictate the principal themes. Chapter 1 introduces students to the four organizing traditions that have emerged through the long history of geographical thought and writing: earth science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis. Each of the four parts of this book centers on one of those geographic perspectives. An access code to PowerWeb is packaged complimentary with every new student and instructor textbook. This website, developed with the help of instructors teaching this course, provides you and your students with curriculum-based materials, updated weekly assessments, informative and timely world news, refereed web links and much more.

1 Introduction 2 Maps Part I The Earth Science Tradition 3 Physical Geography: Landforms 4 Physical Geography: Weather and Climate 5 Human Impact on the Environment Part II The Culture-Environment Tradition 6 Population Geography 7 Cultural Geography 8 Geography of Spatial Behavior 9 Political Geography Part III The Locational Tradition 10 Economic Geography 11 The Geography of Natural Resources 12 Urban Geography Part IV The Area Analysis Tradition 13 The Regional Concepts Appendix 1998 World Population Data