underdevelopment 780
welfare geography 807
uniform regions 631
Union of Socialist Geographers
radical geography 619
socialism 701
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics 93
United Church of Christ,
Commission for Racial
Justice 203
United Kingdom
Africa, idea of 9–11
census 74
devolution 157
economic geography 178,
179
education 187
electoral geography 188
enterprise zone 195
e-social science 210
historical geography 332–3
industrial geography 377
multiculturalism 481
neo-liberalism 497
new town 501
privatization 585
public-private partnership
(PPPs) 601
redistricting 626
regional geography 634
restructuring 651
social exclusion 691
sunbelt/snowbelt 732–3
underclass 780
United Nations (UN)
colonialism 96
emigration 188
environmental hazard 198
gender and development 269
genocide 273
human rights 355
Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) 388
multilateralism 482, 483
nation-state 489–90
North-South 506
post-development 563
refugees 628–9
self-determination 676
slavery 687
South, the 705
sovereignty 706
territorial integrity 744
territorial sea 744
United Nations Charter 355
United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment 4
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development
(UNCTAD)
dependency theory 154
fair trade 238
sustainable development 739
United Nations Convention on
Biological Diversity
(CBD) 46
United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS)
law of the sea 415
territorial sea 744
United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification 155
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
aid 22
security 672–3
United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP) 509
United Nations Fish Stocks
Agreement 416
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate
Change 308
United Nations Global
Commission on
International Migration
(GCIM) 372
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) 464
United Nations Millennium
Declaration 359
United Nations Security
Council 394
United Nations Working Group
on Indigenous Peoples 1, 2
United Nations World Drug
Report 486
United States
Africa, idea of 11
agrarian question 14
agribusiness 16, 17
America(s) (idea of) 24, 25
American empire 25–6
area studies 34–5
carceral geographies 64–5
census 74
Cold War 93
deconstruction 148
development 155, 156
districting algorithm 169
domination 172
domino theory 173
economic geography 178, 179
economic integration 183
education 187
electoral geography 188
empire 190
enterprise zone 195
Environmental Impact
Assessment 201
Europe, idea of 223
globalization 310
heartland 326, 327
hegemony 327
historical geography 333homeland 343
homelessness 343
human rights 355–6
immigration 371, 372
imperialism 373
industrial geography 377
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) 391
Kantianism 401
malapportionment 433
map 436
military geography 465
modifiable areal unit problem
(maup) 475
multiculturalism 481
multilateralism 482, 483
narco-capitalism 486
national parks 487–8
neo-liberalism 497
NIDL 500
North-South 506
oil 510
political geography 549
post-industrial society 566
power 575, 576
private and public spheres 584
private interest developments
(pids) 584–5
privatization 585
product life cycle 588
public-private partnership
(PPPs) 601
racial districting 617
redistricting 626
regional alliance 632
regional geography 634
resource wars 651
restructuring 652, 653
rogue state 658
rustbelt 660
section 671
security 672
sharecropping 681
social exclusion 691
sovereign power 706
stages of growth 720, 721
structural functionalism 725
suburb/anization 732
tariff 741
underclass 779, 780
war 806
World Trade Organization
(WTO) 813
zoning 816
United States Agency for
InternationalDevelopment
(USAID).SeeUSAID
UnitedStates Air Force 307
United States Bureau of the
Census
census tract 75
frontier thesis 265
metropolitan area 459
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