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political and social preferences of the people living in the places where the US Army would be moving through. In 1942 ha was appointed
Manager of OSS Topographic Intelligence subdivision of the Europe-African Division. The Geographic Reports he helped to produce, were later the base of what would be the Joint Army Navy Intelligence Surveys (JANIS) and latter would become the source material for the
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redistribution of the agricultural land, given that up to late 1945 Japan's agriculture system was essential a feudal one, with the poor peasants paying a fee for the land they laboured. A third of the agricultural land changed hands as a result of the implementation of the redistribution policy.
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Conflict: Integrating War and Post-war Geographies – S. Kirsch C. Flint, Chapter 11 Mapping Intelligence, American Geographers and the Office of Strategic Services and GHQ/SCAP (Tokyo), Trevor Barnes and Jeremy Crampton. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011.330 pages.
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Geography as a fundamental research discipline, Ackerman, Edward A, The
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Science of Geography, Ackerman, Edward A, Report for the National Academy of Science-National Research Council of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1965.
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White, G. F. (1974), Edward A. Ackerman, 1911–1973. Annals of the
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Ackerman, E.A. 1946. The industrial and commercial prospect, in Japan’s
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Ackerman, E.A. 1946. Japan: Have or have not nation? in Japan’s Prospect, ed., D.G. Harris, 25–41. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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and an authority in the management of hydric resources in US. He was member of several committees and advisory groups on management of
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Ackerman, E.A. 1953. Japan’s Natural Resources and their Relation to Japan’s Economic Future. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.
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