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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 | |