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... , 156 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , 213-214 Bureau of the Budget Task Force on Federal Flood Control, 125 Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 126 Business strategies, developing effective, 4, 111 See also Retail marketing C Campesino federations, 130 Canadian Association of Geographers, 219 Cartographic Requirements, Coordinating and Standards Program, 125 Cartography, technique of, 3, 39, 57-58 Center for Nuclear Waste and Regulatory Analysis (CNWRA)
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... See Cold War, demise of Digest of Education Statistics, 189 Digital geographic databases, 43 Display and analysis, technique of, 3, 57-69 need for improvement in, 3, 57-697 162 Dispute Resolution, 117 Disturbance regimes, 81-82 Dual Independent Map Encoding system, 43 Dynamic equilibrium hypothesis, 59 E Economic health and geography, 4, 10, 1718, 77-79, 93, 98, 101-102, 129-132 restructuring for competitiveness, 119120 Ecosystem processes. See Environmental change Educate America Act.
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... See Geographical Analysis Machine (GAM) 229 Geographers, 6, 15 diversity among, 4-5, 139, 154-155, 167, 208 influence of, 109-111, 167-168 numbers of, 4, 12, 138-139 recognition of, 166-167, 170 Geographic and Spatial Systems Program, 126 Geographic brushing, 66-67 Geographic education, 1, 25, 27, 146-150 demand for, 11-12, 27, 148 graduate level, 1-2, 4, 8-9, 151, 154, 189-195 need for improved, 5, 8, 147-160, 163 164 techniques of, 52, 58, 152-153, 155-160 undergraduate level, 149-156, 164, 192 195 Geographic information analysis (GIA)
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... See Geographic information analysis (GIA) tools GIS-L.
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... See Spatial statistics N Nation states,-role of, 102-103 National Academy of Sciences, 12 National Center for Atmospheric Research, 56 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) , 189, 194, 201 National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
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... NCGIA. See National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
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... See University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Understanding geography.
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... See also Floods managing, 101, 112, 114 Water Resources, 112 White House Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force, 122 World Bank Conference on Overcoming Global Hunger, 135 World Wide Web, 43, 160 y Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, 123
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Key Terms

  • environmental change
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  • longitudinal studies
  • urban climatology
  • human dimensions

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  • national geography
  • spatial diffusion
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  • global environmental

  • data infrastructure
  • america act
  • geographic society
  • nuclear waste
  • educate america

  • change programme
  • geographic education
  • geographical society
  • retail marketing
  • hazard management

  • education statistics
  • geographic visualization
  • exploratory spatial
  • mapping project
  • university consortium

  • spatial statistics
  • organization technical
  • global geography
  • power plant
  • regulatory analysis


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