Golden Horseshoe, 163
“The Golden Man,” 86i
Gottman, Jean, 223
GPS (Global positioning system), 52, 143,
155–57, 157i, 222
Grasslands, 35,160–62
Graticule, 219
Gravity model theory, 103, 319–20
Great American Desert, 95
Great Artesian Basin, 165
Great Barrier Reef, 34
“Great Blowdown,” 227
Great Britain, 55–56; agricultural revolution in,
6–7; common land, 346; comparative
advantage, 70; deforestation, 92; devolution,
101; empire of, 185–86, 236; European
Economic Community (EEC), 330; green
belt, 162; Law of the Sea, 202; London,
gentrification of, 140; MacKinder on,
169–70; mercantilism, 371; migration
within, 230; rain shadow effect, 278;
relocation diffusion, 80–81
“Great Game,” 169
Great Lakes, 9, 318
Great Plains, 22, 160–62, 312
Great Wall of China, 38
Greece, 332
Greeks, ancient, 48, 58, 59, 199
Green belt, 43,162–63, 351
Greenhouse effect, 65, 158
Greenland, 221
Green revolution, 3, 5, 47, 333
Gross National Product (GNP)
per capita, 269
Ground control component of GPS, 156
Groundwater, 98,163–67, 166i, 183, 327
Group of 8 (G-8), 111–12, 153
Group of 20 (G-20), 112, 153
Growth pole model, 73
Grygiel, Jakub, 150
Guadalupe Mountains, 34
Guam, 187
Guarani aquifer, 165
Gulf of Mexico, 244, 248
Gulfs, 248
Gulf Stream, 244Hadrian’s Wall, 38
Hagerstrand, Torsten, 82
Hagia Sophia, 291
Hail, 264
Hamburgers, 130–31
Hamnett, Chris, 140
Hardin, Garrett, 345–46
Hartshorne, Richard, 17, 39
Haushofer, Karl, 116, 149, 171
Hawaiian Islands, 259, 278
Haystack hills, 194
Heartland Theory, 73, 148,169–71, 286–88
Heating and cooling,171–73, 337
Heat transfer, 171–72
Hegel, Friedrich, 250
Hermann, Missouri, 344
Herodotus, 58, 115, 118, 279
Hess, Harry, 256
Hess, Rudolf, 116, 149
Heterogeneity, 199
Hierarchical diffusion, 81
High clouds, 66–67
High density animal confinement, 2–4, 5
Highland climate, 63t
High stable stage, 93
High yield varieties (HYVs), 3, 333
Himalaya Mountains, 123, 231, 259
Hinduism, 291
Hinterland,173–74; Central Place Theory, 53,
174; core and periphery, 72, 173; primate city,
269; region, 280; spatial inequality, 317;
squatter settlements, 321.See alsoPeriphery
Hitler, Adolf, 148–49, 190, 250
HIV virus, 222–23.See alsoAIDS epidemic
Holmes, Arthur, 256
Homer, 181
Horizons, 310
Howard, Luke, 66
Hoyt, Homer, 266, 301, 352
Hoyt Model.SeeSector Model
Huang Ho River Valley, 88
Humanistic geography, 198, 262–63, 275
Humboldt, Alexander von, 17
Humboldt Current, 244–46
Humid continental climate, 63t
Humidity, 9, 135,174–77392 Index