World Regional Geography

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher is a cultural-historical geographer who studies the landscapes and lifeways of ordinary people through the lenses of archaeology, geography, and ethnography. She has contributed to several geography-related exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Alex A. Pulsipher is an independent scholar in Knoxville, Tennessee, who has conducted research on vulnerability to climate change, sustainable communities, and the diffusion of green technologies in the United States. In the early 1990s, Alex spent time in South Asia working for a sustainable development research center. He then completed a B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, writing his undergraduate thesis on the history of Hindu nationalism. Beginning in 1995, Alex contributed to the research and writing of the first edition of World Regional Geography with Lydia Pulsipher. Ola Johansson is a cultural and urban geographer with a particular interest in music. As a cultural geographer, hehas studied local music scenes and venues, touring patterns, national identity and cultural hybridity in music. Ola is also co-author of the book Sound, Society, and the Geography of Popular Music. A new book on the Swedish music industry is forthcoming. As an urban geographer, he is interested in urban policy and governance, the formation ofentertainment districts, and place branding.

1 Geography: An Exploration of Connections.- 2 North America.- 3 Middle and South America.- 4 Europe.- 5 Russia and the Post-Soviet States.- 6 North Africa and Southwest Asia.- 7 Sub-Saharan Africa.- 8 South Asia.- 9 East Asia.- 10 Southeast Asia.- 11 Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific.- Epilogue 1 Polar Regions.- Epilogue 2 Space