This book employs an explicitly global approach to world regional geography that examines the interconnections between people and places at different scales, and that brings to the introductory learner the most current and powerful ideas in geography. It features an emphasis on core regions, key cities, and distinctive landscapes that allows the authors to stress global connections while still maintaining a traditional focus on places at the local scale. Chapter topics cover a world of regions; the foundations of world regions; Europe; The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus; The Middle East and North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; North America; Latin America and the Caribbean; East Asia; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific; and future regional geography. For individuals interested in world regional geography.

World Regions in Global Context

Science & Math

Knox, Paul L.

Marston, Sallie A.

Liverman, Diana M.

Earth Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Designed to help readers truly understand places and to cultivate a life-long geographical imagination, this innovative introduction to human geography gives readers access to the latest ideas, concepts, and theories while concurrently developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals. Its exciting contemporary approach gives people and places meaning by covering compelling topics that integrate today's local, regional, and global perspectives. It provides not only a body of knowledge about places and regions, but also a deep understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world. Hundreds of maps and special boxes bring topics to life and show how and why specific geographic perspectives are important. Geography Matters. The Changing Global Context. Geographies of Population. Nature and Society. Cultural Geographies. Interpreting Places and Landscapes. The Geography of Economic Development. Agriculture and Food Production. The Politics of Territory and Space. Urbanization. City Spaces: Urban Structure. Future Geographies. For anyone wanting an introduction to human geography.

Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography, 3rd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This is a highly topical book, examining both the theory that underpins urban social geography and an examination of recent critical work, presented in a way that is clear and accessible for students.

Urban Social Geography: An Introduction

Pinch, Steven

Pearson College Div

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography, Third Edition captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanization processes for people, as well as the development of new ways of thinking about urban geography. Unraveling the interlocking processes of urbanization, Knox and McCarthy present a vivid and meaningful explanation of constantly changing urban geographies and urban life. This framework supports the discussion of recent changes while addressing much of the “traditional” subject matter of urban geography. The book’s dynamic approach also allows for integration of both theories and facts, where key concepts and theories are presented in relation to prior events and ideas–providing a coherent and comprehensive introduction to urban geography that offers a historical and process-oriented approach. With a U.S. focus that also offers global context and comparative international perspectives, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both developed and less-developed countries to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world.

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography (2nd Edition)

McCarthy, Linda M.

Pearson

This book employs an explicitly global approach to world regional geography that examines the interconnections between people and places at different scales, and that brings to the introductory learner the most current and powerful ideas in geography. It features an emphasis on core regions, key cities, and distinctive landscapes that allows the authors to stress global connections while still maintaining a traditional focus on places at the local scale. Chapter topics cover a world of regions; the foundations of world regions; Europe; The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus; The Middle East and North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; North America; Latin America and the Caribbean; East Asia; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific; and future regional geography. For individuals interested in world regional geography.

World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments

Travel

By offering access to the latest ideas, concepts, and theories in human geography – accompanied by a strong foundation in the fundamentals – this handbook builds knowledge about places and regions as well as a deeper understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world. Fosters awareness of current issues from a geographic perspective, reflecting developing trends such as the globalization of industry; the upwelling of ethnic regionalisms on the heels of decolonization and new state formation, and the emerging trend toward transnational political and economic organizations. Covers key issues of human geography such as global security, trade in commodities, cultural dimensions of globalization, youth culture, economic aid and outsourcing, bio-terrorism, and more. Offers a rich and diverse cartographic program with hundreds of maps that help reveal the important spatial elements inherent to human geography. For those interested in learning more about human geography.

Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 4th Edition

introduce the study of human geography by providing an understanding of interdependence of places and regions in a globalized world.

Human Geography: Places And Regions in Global Context, Second Canadian Edition (2nd Edition)

Nash, Alan E.

Pearson Canada

Human Geography Places and Regions in Global Context

Pearson Education Canada

For courses in World Regional Geography. This explicitly global approach to world regional geography emphasizes global connections and the stories behind the maps - and offers lively discussions of how these forces and processes play themselves out in individual places. The authors make the most current and powerful ideas in geography accessible to the introductory student. Emphasis on core regions, key cities, and distinctive landscapes accommodates a global connections approach as well as the course's traditional focus on places at the local scale.

History

World

"For courses in world regional geography."  "  " Conceptual Exploration of World Regions and the Myriad Issues Critical to Geography Today "World Regions in Global Context" presents a strong global sensibility and an emphasis on current events, with examples of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of the twin forces of globalization and regionalization. Therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, making regions different. By studying regions, students not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change. The Sixth Edition is a briefer, more visual text that still maintains its conceptual rigor by addressing today s critical geographic themes, incorporating deeper focus on sustainability issues, new human stories from the regions, cutting-edge data visualizations and infographics, including a completely modernized cartography program, and much more.  Also Available with MasteringGeographyTM This title is also available with MasteringGeography an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.  Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MasteringGeography does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringGeography, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.  If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MasteringGeography, search for: 0134182723 / 9780134182728 "World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments Plus MasteringGeography with eText -- Access Card Package" Package consists of: "0134183649 / 9780134183640 World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments" "0134153669 / 9780134153667 MasteringGeography with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments" "

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World Regions in Global Context

Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography, 3rd Edition

Urban Social Geography: An Introduction

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography (2nd Edition)

World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments

Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 4th Edition

Human Geography: Places And Regions in Global Context, Second Canadian Edition (2nd Edition)

Human Geography Places and Regions in Global Context

World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments

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