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Book SynopsisDouglas L. Johnson, the Eleventh Edition editor and author of: Chapter One, Geography and Development in an Era of Globalization, and Chapter Seven, The Middle East and North Africa. Douglas Johnson is a Professor of Geography at Clark University. His geographical career has focused on the North African and Middle Eastern culture realm. Both his master's thesis and doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago dealt with the history and spatial implications of nomadism. Studying North Africa and the Middle East and teaching students about the complexities of this region have been a central focus of his work, including lengthy field periods in Libya, Sudan, and Morocco and visiting appointments in the Middle Eastern Center at the University of California, Berkeley and Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. His research addresses issues of land degradation and desertification, arid land management, pastoral nomadism, and the cultural ecology of animal keeping. He is
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Brief Contents
- Geography and Development in an Era of Globalization
- The United States and Canada
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Europe
- Northern Eurasia
- Central Asia and Afghanistan
- The Middle East and North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- South Asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
