Resources

Images and information on the Dustbowl in the United States and the Sahel in Africa
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/DustBowl/

Excellent information on deforestation
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Deforestation/

Information on related environmental issues studied by earth observing system
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_edu.pack

Images of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, deforestation that are detailed enough for analysis in a laboratory setting
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/santa_cruz.html

An on-line class on global land use issues, many of which are related to this Investigation
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/index.html

 Images:

pg2_China_a.jpg

pg2_India_b.jpg

A good resource for students to see and read about the circumstance of families is:

Peter Menzel. 1994. Material World: A Global Family Portrait. San Francisco:Sierra Club Books. This book also exists on a CD.

Good overviews of the concepts presented in this investigation can be found in:

Getis, Fellmann . 1995. Human Geography. Landscapes of Human Activities. Fourth Edition. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown.

Rubenstein. 1994. An Introduction to Human Geography,. New York: Macmillan.

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