Titlebook: WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems; Commemorating the 10 Donald G. Janelle,Barney Warf,Kathy Hansen Book 2004 Springer S

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Hidden Killers: The Problem of Landmines and Unexploded Ordinancequipment during conflict, LM/UXO often remain unexploded, contaminating the ground long after a conflict and posing an indiscriminant threat to civilians as well as peacekeeping and humanitarian staff. The threat of landmines is widespread as they are relatively inexpensive and easily deployed, amou

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Evaluating the Geographic Compactness of Representational Districtsese enumerations are used to “reapportion” or reallocate the seats, now limited to a total of 435, in the House of Representatives among the states. As a result of the 2000 Census of Population, for example, New York and Pennsylvania each had their delegations reduced by two seats while Florida and

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Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the American Southgion. Many white Southerners identify with romanticized images of the Confederacy (Hoelscher 2003). Alternately, a new historical vision of the region’s past has emerged, one that challenges the centrality of the Confederacy. Propelled largely by African Americans, this challenge is embodied in the

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Halting the AIDS PandemicDanaFarber Cancer Institute, added that “Unless the epidemic of AIDS is controlled, there is no predictable future for our species.” Later, testifying before a U.S. Senate hearing, he suggested that by 2000 there might be 50 million HIV-infected people and that by 2015 the total number dead or dying

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Detecting Spatial Clusters of Cancer Mortality in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisianathe past five years indicate an increase in cancer-related deaths. This has generated great concern from the citizens in the state. In East Baton Rouge Parish, questions were raised on whether the heavy petrochemical industry, increased air pollution, increased population growth, and increased need

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A Geographic Approach to Identifying Disease Clustershy’s traditional interest in map pattern analysis has been augmented by geographic information systems technology. Second, the identification of relatively new diseases, such as AIDS and ebola, and rapidly spreading diseases, such as West Nile virus and dengue, has stimulated interest in finding way