Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts

Irredentism,189–91

Islam, 291

The Isolated State(Von Thunen), 355

Isostasy, 257

Italy, 190

Japan, 57, 185, 189

Jazz music, diffusion of, 80

Jefferson, Mark, 267

Jerusalem, 291

Jewish people, 129

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry, 74

Journal of Geography, 274

Judaism, 291

Kaplan, Robert, 150

Karst, 146,193–96, 195i, 362

Kashmir, 191

Kazakh people, 255

Kazakhstan, 73, 86i

Kelvin, 338

Kennan, George, 149

Kennedy, John, 295

Keynes, John Maynard, 215

Keynesian economics, 215

Khaldun, Ibn, 16, 115, 147, 250, 251

Kipling, Rudyard, 118

Kjellen, Rudolf, 115–16, 148, 251

Ko ̈ppen, Vladimir, 60–61

Ko ̈ppen system, 60–62, 61i, 95

Korean War, 42

Kosher food, 129

Kosmos(Humboldt), 17

Kosovo, 86–87, 102, 237, 291, 308

Kroeber, Alfred, 83, 253

Kurds, 26–27

Kyrgyz people, 255

Lagoons, 179

Lahars, 360

Lake effect snow, 9

Lake Geneva, 258i

Lamaism, 283–84

Lambert’s equal area projection, 221

Land-based biomes, 33, 34–35

Land power, vs. sea power, 169

Land rent, 356

Landsat satellites, 293

Landscape,197–99; boundaries and, 38;

cultural ecology, 85, 197; cultural identity,

87; fronts, 135; geomancy, 127;

globalization, 152; imperialism, 187; karst,

193; location, 197, 210; locational analysis,

212; maps, 217; possibilism, 263;

quantitative revolution, 198, 275; rain

shadow effect, 277; rural settlement, 289;

sequent occupance, 307; spatial inequality,

316; spatial interaction models, 319; stream

erosion and deposition, 325; toponymy,

197–98, 344; urban decentralization, 349;

urbanization, 350; von Thunen Model, 355;

wind erosion and deposition, 365–66

Landscape ecology, 199

Landslide, 364, 364t

Land subsidence, 166–67

Land tenure, 6–7

Land valuation, 27

Lang, Robert, 223

Language, 85, 87.See alsoLinguistic geography

Language region, 206

La Nin ̃a, 246

Late expanding stage, 94

Latent heat, 175

Latin America: economic development,

geography of, 111; European languages in,

187; imperialism, 147; religious syncretism,

283; rural settlement, 289–90; shifting

cultivation, 77; squatter settlements, 321–22

Latin language, 206

Latitude and longitude,199–202; cartography,

49; climate, 59; Earth, 105, 200;

Eratosthenes and, 48–49; location, 210; map

projections, 219; ocean currents, 243

Lava, 359–60

Lava domes, 359

Law of the Sea, 40,202–4, 256, 323

Lawrence, Amos Adams, 344

Lawrence, Kansas, 344

LDCs (Lesser-developed countries), 110–11

League of Nations, 202–3

Leaning Tower of Pisa, 167

Lebanon, 92, 296

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