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'''Strategic geography''' is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that affect the [[national security|security]] and prosperity of [[nation]]s. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development. This field is a subset of [[human geography]], itself a subset of the more general study of [[geography]].  It is also related to [[geostrategy]].

Strategic geography is that branch of science, which deals with the study of spatial areas that affect the security and prosperity of a nation.

== See also ==
* [[Geostrategy]]

==Further reading==

*[[Brzezinski, Zbigniew]].  ''The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.''  New York: Basic Books, 1997.
*[[Daclon, Corrado Maria]].  ''Geopolitics of Environment, A Wider Approach to the Global Challenges.''  Italy: Comunità Internazionale, [[SIOI]], 2007.
* Faringdon, Hugh. ''Strategic Geography: NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers''.  Routledge (1989). {{ISBN|0-415-00980-4}}.
*Gray, Colin S. and Geoffrey Sloan.  ''Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy.''  Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999.
*Kemp G., Harkavy R. ''Strategic Geography and the changing Middle East''. [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]] in cooperation with [[Brookings Institution Press]], 1997.
*[[Mackinder, Halford J.]]  [https://web.archive.org/web/20090305174521/http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/Books%20-%201979%20and%20earlier/Democratic%20Ideals%20and%20Reality%20-%201942/DIR.pdf ''Democratic Ideals and Reality.'']  Washington, DC: [[National Defense University Press]], 1996.
* [[Stürmer, Michael]]. ''Strategische Geografie''. Leitartikel, ''[[Die Welt]]'' Online, 10. February 2004.

==External links==
*[http://europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eu European Geostrategy]

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