Table of Contents

History and epistemological foundations.- Managing geography after Y2K.- The principles and practice of applied geography.- Historical foundations of applied geography.- Political geography, public policy and the rise of policy analysis.- The role of geographic information science in applied geography.- Economic base theory and applied geography.- Retail location and consumer spatial choice behavior.- A world perspective.- Applied geography in Western and Southern Europe.- Applied geography in Central Europe.- Applied geography in 20th century North America: A perspective.- Case studies.- Disability, disadvantage, and discrimination: An overview with special emphasis on blindness in the USA.- Human wayfinding.- International trade.- Medicometry and Regional Devlopment.- Monitoring and benchmarking regional and local performance.- Applied geography for the future.- Biographies and fields.