Douglas College

GEOG 1190 & SOCI 1155

Find Scholarly Journal Articles in these Databases

JSTOR : Geography & Sociology. Full text scholarly journal articles.
Academic Search Complete : Geography & Sociology.
CBCA Complete : Geography & Sociology. Emphasis on Canada.
ScienceDirect : Geography & Sociology. Covers Social, Behavioral and Physical Sciences.
SocIndex : Sociology and related fields.
GeoRef : Geography. Geoscience journal articles.
GreenFILE : Geography & Sociology. Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment.

Find Books at Douglas College Library

Library Catalogue - Douglas College Library
Search the catalogue for books on your subject. The library also has a number of e-books that may be read on the computer.

Sample titles in the Library 

Black, J. K. (2010). Latin America: Its problems and its promise. A multidisciplinary approach.

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Blouet, B. W. & Blouet, O. M. (2010). Latin America and the Caribbean: A systematic and regional survey .


F 1408 L3863 2010
Booth, J. A. (2006). Understanding Central America.


F 1439.5 B668 2006
Clawson, D. L. & Airriess, C. A. (2007). World regional geography: A development approach.


HD 82 W677 2007
Gallup, J. L. (2003). Is geography destiny?: Lessons from Latin America.


HC 125 G254 2003
Hillman, R. S. (2005). Understanding contemporary Latin America.


F 1408 U533 2005
Kent, R. B. (2006). Latin America: regions and people.


F 1408.9 K465 2006
Knox, P. L. (2009). Human geography: Places and regions in global context.


GF 41 K 664 2009
Prevost, G. & Vaden, H. E. (2011). Latin America: An introduction.

F 1408 P745 2011
Skidmore, T. E., Smith, P. H., & Green, J. N. (2010). Modern Latin America.

F 1413 S556 2010
Timmons, R. J. (2003). Trouble in paradise: globalization and environmental crises in Latin America .


HC 130 E5 R628

Graham, C., & Lora, E. (2009). Paradox and perception: measuring quality of life in Latin America .


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Behrman, J.R., Gaviria, A., & Szekely, M. (2003). Who's in who's out: social exclusion in Latin America.

HN 110.5 Z9 M2694 2003

Social Indicators

Canadian index of wellbeing - University of Waterloo
Indicators of wellbeing in Canada - Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
International human development indicators - United Nations
Regional human development report for Latin American and the Caribbean 2010 - United Nations

Area Studies and Regional Resources

Guide to countries of the world - Oxford University Press
CIA world factbook - contains country profiles, statistics, regional & country maps.
GeoHive - population statistics
Country studies - Library of Congress
Background notes: Belize
FAO country profiles - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
UNdata country profile - Belize
Human development reports - United Nations
Intute: Central America
Belize: A country study
Biodiversity and Environmental Resource Data System of Belize 
LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
Latin American Economic Outlook 

Belize

Government of Belize portal (see related Ministries)
Department of the Environment
2009 Country poverty assessment
Land use policy Belize (see Documents link)

Maps and Atlases

Perry-Castañeda library map collection - Maps of the Americas - University of Texas
Intute: Geography/Maps - outline, detailed and regional maps
Atlas of the world (Philip's) - G 1021 A7545 2003
Atlas of the world (National Geographic) - G 1021 N283 2005

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias etc.

Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
REF F 1406 C362
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture
REF F 1406 E535 2008
Handbook of Latin American studies
Oxford dictionary of geography
A dictionary of Sociology
Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Merriam-Webster online (English language)
Kriol - Inglish dikshenri
English-Spanish language dictionaries

Sample Journal Titles

Geography Journals
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Journal of Latin American Studies
Journal of Latin American Geography
Journal of Cultural Geography
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Sociology Journals
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
Canadian Journal of Sociology
Social Problems

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last updated: May 2012.