When I received a copy of this book from the United Nations University, little did I know that
soon after I would be asked to review it for Mountain Research and Development. I …

THE head of Lake Superior long attracted attention as a prospective site for a commercial
city of consequence. Only a scant population lived about the lake head and only a meager …

EAN air temperature is employed universally as an index to the energy status of the
environment. Man's activities, and the average reaction rates of many physical and …

High mountains exist on all continents, on many islands, and in all latitudes. Elevation
interacts with latitude as well as with permanent snowline so that relatively low mountains at …

throughout the world from 1800 to 1960 is shown by the fact that the num-ber of cities with a
population of 100,000 and over increased from 36 in the year 1800 to 678 in 1930 and to …

T HE scientific contribution of economic geography was once summed up by Isaiah Bowman
in these words:" Few'commercial geographers' in the United States have written analytical …

JIN the New Bright Tobacco Belt of North Carolina-an area of approximately 5,000 square
milesthere are many agglomerated settlements, where life revolves principally around the …

HUGH M. RAUP rIT HE postwar maintenance and utilization of the Alaska High depend on a
number of economic and social imponderables. It cipal function at present seems to be the …

Abstract Development of new settlements in arid zones shows a number of factors which,
though not unique individually, together tend to characterize urban areas in these zones …

T HERE ARE TWO possible starting points in the development of a theory of loca-tion. One
is to concentrate on natural geographical differences and to seek an explanation, for …