Yi-Fu Tuan, Bonnie Loyd, Gregory Conniff, Martha Strawn, William Howarth, Dick Beamish, and Henry Tom. The Center s educational mission is to enhance the public s understanding of, and appreciation for, the natural and built environment. We are guided by the view that books provide, perhaps better than any other medium, the intellectual and affective foundation for comprehending the places where we live, work, and visit. Books make a difference.
Books are gifts to civilization.
Our publishing goal is to develop and produce books of lasting value on geographical and environmental topics for the classroom and for the common reader. With offices in Virginia and New Mexico, Center editors are bringing to publication 20-25 books per year in partnership with leading university and commercial presses such as Johns Hopkins, Chicago, and Abrams. The Center s publishing activities include comprehensive editorial development, select packaging, and literary agency. In 1999 the Center began to publish selective titles under our own imprint. The Center s publishing program is pioneering a new path in geographical and environmental education.