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Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences -- Part I: Spatial Analysis at Individual and Household Levels -- 2 Inferring the Behavior of Households from Remotely Sensed Changes in Land Cover: Current Methods and Future Directions -- 3 Geovisualization of Human Activity Patterns Using 3D GIS: A Time-Geographic Approach -- 4 Agent-Based Modeling: From Individual Residential Choice to Urban Residential Dynamics -- 5 Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Data: Implications for the Practice of Micro-Scale Spatial Modeling

WorldMinds provides broad exposure to a geography that is engaged with discovery, interpretation, and problem solving. Its 100 succinct chapters demonstrate the theories, methods, and data used by geographers, and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary geography. The 150 contributing authors and co-authors address the challenges posed by issues such as globalization, regional and ethnic conflict, environmental hazards, terrorism, poverty, and sustainable development. This volume demonstrates the utility of geography as a conceptual discipline that contributes theoretically; as an applied practice that informs policy-making; and as a coherent set of methodologies to gather and analyze data about Earth and its occupants. WorldMinds is the ideal general reader to supplement textbooks in the full range of academic geography courses. In addition to geography students and instructors, it is relevant to researchers, applied geographers and policy makers

The "Future Directions of Spatial Demography" specialist meeting (Santa Barbara, 2011) brought together 41 specialists from multiple disciplines to discuss the future of spatial demography. Whereas the majority of attendees were geographers and sociologists, many other disciplines were represented, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health economics, and political science. This report outlines the primary outcomes of the meeting, including recommendations about training-related activities and cross-site collaborations, and activities that promote spatial demography within the wider academy. The report follows the structure of the meeting, focusing on: 1. The state of the science in spatial demography2. Emergent geospatial data and measurement issues3. Spatial statistical methods4. A synthesis of challenges