About the Book
It is particularly appropriate that the AAG's Centennial Celebration should prompt the publication of a volume devoted to Geography and Technology. New technologies have always been important in advancing geographic understanding, but never have they been so thoroughly and rapidly transformative of the discipline as at this stage in geography's evolution. Just as new technologies have profoundly expanded both research possibilities and the knowledge base of other disciplines, such as biology, physics or medicine, so too are the revolutionary new geographic technologies developed during the past few decades extending frontiers in geographic research, education and applications. They are also creating new and resurgent roles for geography in both society and in the university. This trend is still accelerating, as the integration of geographic technologies, such as the global positioning system and geographic information systems (GPS/GIS), is creating an explosion of new "real-time, real-world" applications and research capabilities. The resultant dynamic space/time interactive research and management environments created by interactive GPS/GIS, among other technologies, places geography squarely at the forefront of advanced multidisciplinary research and modeling programs, and has created core organization management tools (geographic management systems) which will dramatically change the way governments and businesses work in the decades ahead. While these and other important geographic technologies, including remote sensing, location-based services, and many others addressed in this book, are forging new opportunities for geography and geographers, they also pose challenges.
Contents
Part I - Geography and Technology Interfaces1. Geography and Technology / Thomas J. Wilbanks
2. Communications Technology and the Production of Geographical Knowledge / Ron Johnston
3. Federal Funding, Geographic Research, and Geographic Technologies: 1904-2004 / Fred M. Shelley, Wendy Bigler, and Richard Aspinall
Part II - Technologies That Changed Geography4. The Imbrication of Geography and Technology: The Social Construction of Geographic Information Systems / Francis J. Harvey and Nicholas R. Chrisman
5. Computers and Geography: From Automated Geography to Digital Earth / Daniel Sui and Richard Morrill
6. Remote Sensing of Selected Biophysical Variables and Urban/Suburban Phenomena / John R. Jensen and Michael E. Hodgson
7. New Digital Geographies: Information, Communication, and Place / Matthew Zook, Martin Dodge, Yuko Aoyama, and Anthony Townsend
Part III - New Geographies with New Technologies8. From Globes to GIS: The Paradoxical Role of Tools in School Geography / Roger M. Downs
9. Fieldwork in Nonwestem Contexts: Continuity and Change / Philip W. Porter and Lawrence S. Grossman
10. The Camera and Geographical Inquiry / JohnA. Jakie
11. Film Networks and the Place(s) of Technology / Deborah P. Dixon and Leo E. Zonn
12. Motor Vehicles on the American Landscape / James M. Rubenstein
13. Airspaces: Air Transport, Technology, and Society / Thomas R. Leinbach and John J. Bowen, Jr.
14. A World on Demand: Geography of the 24-Hour Global TV News / David R. Rain and Susan R. Brooker-Gross
15. Democracy and Technology / Joanna Regulska
16. Technologies Applied to Public Health / Mihael Greenburg
17. "Real" Bodies, "Real" Technologies / Pamela Moss and Mei-Po Kwan
18. Geotechnology, the U.S. Military, and War / Mark W. Corson and Eugene J. Palka
Part IV - The Environment and Technology19. Earth Pulses in Direct Current / Douglas J. Sherman and Andreas C. W. Baas
20. The Impact of Technology Upon In Situ Atmospheric Observations and Climate Science / Julie A. Winkler
21. Population-Environment Interactions with an Emphasis on Land-UselLand-Cover Dynamics and Role of Technology / Stephen J. Walsh, Tom P. Evans, and Billie L. Turner II
22. Capacity Building and Geographic Information Technologies in African Development / D.R.F. Taylor
23. Natural Hazards and Technology: Vulnerability, Risk, and Community Response in Hazardous Environments / Graham A. Tobin and Burrell E. Montz
Part V - The Worlds Before Us24. The GIS Revolution in Science and Society / Jerome E. Dobson
25. Why Technology? Narratives of Science and the Bewitchment of an Image / Michael Curry
About the Author / Editor
Stanley D. Brunn, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
Susan L. Cutter, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
J. W. Harrington, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
