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| The Power of Environmental Perceprions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Perspectives on Human-Environmental Interactions | |
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| Human Values and Environmental Perception | |
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| The Importance of Environmental Perception | |
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| Summary | |
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| Living on The Edge of The World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Forming the Human Ecumene | |
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| The Edge of the World | |
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| Rural to Rural Migration | |
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| Building on the Old | |
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| Summary | |
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| Settling The Ancient Ecumene | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Accommodating Population Growth | |
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| Our Ecumene | |
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| Where Life Is Hard, Few People Are Found | |
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| Summary | |
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| Geotheology The Cradle of Civilzation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geotheology | |
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| Cosmology and Geoeschatology | |
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| Geotheokolasis and Geotheomisthosis | |
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| Sacred Images of Weather and Climate with Inferences for Climate Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Geokolasis: The Cases of Donora, Lakeerie, And The Dust Bowl | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Asia Fills the Production Void | |
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| Deaths in the Fog | |
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| �Death and Rebirth of Lake Erie� | |
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| Grapes of Draft | |
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| Summary | |
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| Erosion And Dispossession in The Cumberland Gap Area, 1933-1939 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Framing a Perspective on Life in the Cumberland Gap Area | |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority and Norris Dam | |
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| Life of the Nondispossessed | |
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| Lingering Legacy of the TVA in the Cumberland Gap Area | |
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| Summary | |
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| Life And Death in Hurricane Alley | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geography of Hurricanes | |
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| The Galveston Hurricane of September 8, 1900 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Life And Death in America�s Tornado Alleys | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Predicting Tornadoes | |
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| Classifying Tornadoes | |
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| Geography of Tornadoes | |
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| The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 | |
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| Mossy Grove and the Outbreak of November 11, 2002 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Life And Death in Quake Zones | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Predicting the Next Big One | |
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| Measuring Quakes | |
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| New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Challenges of Climate Change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| When Human Ecology Approaches Geotheology | |
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| Stigmatization of Carbon | |
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| The Imprecision of Predicting Global Warming and Climate Change | |
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| The Historicity of Climate Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| The East's Human Tsunami | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Demographic Adaptations in Mid-Atlantic Coastal Areas | |
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| Ecological Forces behind International Migrations | |
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| Carrying Capacity in the Near East, Middle East, and Southern Asia | |
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| The East�s Expanded Carrying Capacity and the Declining Pull of the West | |
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| Living in the Eastern Hazard Zone | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Americas in 2060 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lands of Contrasting Environmental Features | |
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| Population Change in the Americas | |
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| The Fatal Attraction of North America | |
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| The Need for Development in the Americas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendix: Cumberland Gap Survey | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |