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Understanding Cultural
and Human Geography
Course Guidebook
Professor Paul Robbins
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Paul Robbins, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Nelson Institute for
Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison
rofessor Paul Robbins is the Director of the
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,
where he guides the institute in its role as a world
leader in addressing rapid global environmental
change. A UW–Madison alumnus with a bachelor’s
degree in Anthropology, Professor Robbins also holds a master’s degree and
a doctorate in Geography, both from Clark University. He previously led the
School of Geography and Development at The University of Arizona, which
he helped establish and where he served for two years as Director. He also
has taught at The Ohio State University, where he was the recipient of the
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Professor Robbins has years of experience as a geographic researcher and
educator, specializing in human interactions with nature and the politics
of natural resource management. He has taught topics ranging from
environmental studies and natural resource policy to social theory. His
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in rural India, where his work has focused on the politics surrounding
forestry and wildlife conservation in Rajasthan. He also has conducted
recent research to examine the wealth of biodiversity (frogs, birds, and
mammals) in commercial coffee and rubber plantations throughout South
India. Professor Robbins has led national studies of consumer chemical risk
behaviors in America, including research on mosquito management policies
in the Southwest and on the abiding passion of Americans for their lawns. In
addition, he has studied the complexities of elk management policy on the
settled fringes of Yellowstone National Park.
Professor Robbins’s writing is aimed at diverse interdisciplinary audiences
and the broader public. He is the author of the foundational textbook
i
Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction
and numerous research articles
in publications that address conservation science, social science, and the
humanities. His award-winning book
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds,
and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
is widely recognized as one of the
most accessible books on the environmental politics of daily life. He is
the coauthor of several best-selling textbooks in geography, including
World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments
and
Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction.
Professor Robbins has
been interviewed by numerous media organizations, including
The New
York Times,
and has been a guest on national radio and television programs,
including National Public Radio’s
Science Friday
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
Writing the World—The Mapmaker’s Craft .........................................3
LECTURE 2
The Problem with Geographical Determinism .................................10
LECTURE 3
Anthropocene—The Age of Human Impact ......................................17
LECTURE 4
Climate Change and Civilization.......................................................24
LECTURE 5
Global Land Change.........................................................................31
LECTURE 6
The End of Global Population Growth ..............................................38
LECTURE 7
The Agricultural Puzzle .....................................................................45
LECTURE 8
Disease Geography ..........................................................................52
LECTURE 9
Political Ecology ...............................................................................58
LECTURE 10
Economic Geography—Globalization Origins ..................................65
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