The Professional Geographer, Volume 60, Issue 1 (2008)

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ARTICLES

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Disaster Declarations and Major Hazard Occurrences in the United States
Mathew C. Schmidtlein, Christina Finch & Susan L. Cutter
Pages: 1-14
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Airline and Airport Choice by Passengers in Multi-Airport Regions: The Effect of Southwest Airlines
Sean Tierney & Michael Kuby
Pages: 15-32
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Using GIS to Model and Forecast HIV/AIDS Rates in Africa, 1986–2010
Ezekiel Kalipeni & Leo Zulu
Pages: 33-53
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois
Fahui Wang, Sara McLafferty, Veronica Escamilla & Lan Luo
Pages: 54-69
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Measuring Concentrated Poverty in a Global Metropolis: Lessons from Los Angeles
Nathan J. Sessoms & Jennifer R. Wolch
Pages: 70-86
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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An Evaluation of an Object-Oriented Paradigm for Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Rutherford V. Platt & Lauren Rapoza
Pages: 87-100
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Migrant Settlement and Spatial Distribution in Metropolitan Shanghai
Weiping Wu
Pages: 101-120
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Incorporating GIS Building Data and Census Housing Statistics for Sub-Block-Level Population Estimation
Shuo-sheng Wu, Le Wang & Xiaomin Qiu
Pages: 121-135
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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COMMENTARIES

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Forest Transition: Without Complexity, Without Scale
Robert Walker
Pages: 136-140
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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Forest Transitions, Environmental Social Theory, and Land Science Research: Reply to Walker
Stephen G. Perz
Pages: 141-145
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review
A Review of: “Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future”
Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, xv and 230 pp., maps, diagrams, photos, appendix, index. $29.95 (ISBN 0-231-13212-3)
Jonathan Phillips
Pages: 146-147
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Making Population Geography”
Adrian Bailey. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. xiii and 226 pp., illustrations, maps, references, and index. $35.00 paper (ISBN 0-340-76264-0)
Samuel M. Otterstrom
Pages: 147-149
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Urban and Regional Technology Planning: Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy”
Kenneth E. Corey and Mark I. Wilson. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv and 286 pp., maps, diagrams, appendices, references, and index. $64.95 paper (ISBN 0-415-70141-4)
Dorothy Ives Dewey
Pages: 149-151
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger”
Arjun Appadurai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xiii and 153 pp., bibliography and index. $18.95 (ISBN 0-8223-3863-7)
Grant Wilson
Pages: 151-152
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries”
Wei Li, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. 278 pp., maps, photos, notes, and index. $50.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8248-2911-5)
Emily Skop
Pages: 152-154
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life”
Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. xi and 303 pp., photos, annotated bibliography, and index. $48.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-415-70117-4)
Harold A. Perkins
Pages: 154-156
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space”
Landscape Series, Volume 5. Theano S. Terkenli and Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, eds. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006. 245 pp., maps, photos, notes. $129 hardcover (ISBN 1-4020-4095-4)
Michael W. Longan
Pages: 156-157
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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A Review of: “Travel and Tourism”
Richard Sharpley. London: Sage, 2006. 232 pp. $29.95 paper (ISBN-13 978-1-4129-2295-1)
Dallen J. Timothy
Pages: 157-158
Published online: 31 Jan 2008
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