1. North Africa and Southwest Asia
Geography as a Major or Career
Finish Sub-Saharan Africa
Setting the Boundaries
Landforms and Climate
Environmental Issues
For Next Class: Read Chapter 7 (pp )
Reminder: Response Paper Due on 3/27!

2. Transportation manager Cartographer Remote-Sensing Analyst
Geography and Planning teaches you concepts, theories and methods that provide a unique set of skills applicable to a wide range of questions asked in many occupations, in both the public and private sectors. With a degree in Geography or Planning you could become a…
GIS Specialist
Urban or City Planner
Climatologist
Transportation manager
Cartographer
Remote-Sensing Analyst
Transportation Planner
Researcher
National Park Service Ranger
Demographer
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3. But will I be able to get a good Job?
The potential for practicing geography has grown considerably in recent years with the use of Geographic Information Systems.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 35% increase in Geography jobs from :
In their May 2012 report, the median yearly income for Urban and Regional Planners was $65,230 and $74,760 for Geographers.
Percent change in employment, projected
Geographers
35%
Social Scientists
18%
All Occupations
14%

4. Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs)
SAPs have crippled Sub-Saharan African countries
Tied to neoliberal economic theory and implemented by the IMF and World Bank
Four key elements:
Reschedule foreign debt payments
Decrease state spending
Increase exports
Privatize economy
Diversity Amid Globalization, 4th edition: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, and Wyckoff

5. Many have since advocated “Adjustment with a Human Face”
Gradualism in economic growth
Small-scale production
Shift in public spending to meet basic needs first
Target scarce state support to very poor
Community participation in covering costs
Diversity Amid Globalization, 4th edition: Rowntree, Lewis, Price, and Wyckoff

6. Southwest Asia and North Africa
What is the basis for regional integrity? (Or, why is this a region?)
Figure 7.1

7. Setting the Boundaries
Stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Caspian Sea
Climate, Arab culture, Islam, and petroleum reserves serve as binding elements for this region
Figure 7.0
West Bank city of Hebron: important for trade and industry

8. Cultural Hearths and Globalization
Figure 7.3
Agriculture
Civilizations
Trade Routes
Innovations
OPEC
Islamic Fundamentalism
Saudi Arabian
oil refinery

9. Climate When is the rainy season across most of the region? Why?
Figure 7.11

10. Environmental Issues – Overview
Fragile environment
Deforestation
Overgrazing
Salinization
Water Management
Figure 7.5

11. Hydropolitics Interplay of water resources and politics Aswan High Dam
Peace Corridor
Tekeze Dam project
Potential for conflict
Figure 7.6

12. Environmental Issues Gaza Strip: damaged water infrastructure
Figure 7.7
Environmental Issues
Gaza Strip: damaged
water infrastructure
Figure 7.1.1
Irrigated fields depletes
fossil water, Saudi Arabia

13. Regional Landscape Atlas Mountains Satellite view of Turkey Arid Iran
Figure 7.8
Satellite view of Turkey
Figure 7.9
Figure 7.12
Arid Iran