Full Description
The fifth edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography, including food security and population, geopolitics and territory, inequality and power, production, consumption, the global financial system, governance and now a new chapter on citizenship. Substantial and comprehensively updated chapters ensure balanced treatment across the range of contemporary human geography.
Contents
Section 1 Worlds in the past: changing scales of experience and past worlds in the present
1 Pre-capitalist worlds
2 The rise and spread of capitalism
3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty first-century world
Section 2 Population, resources, food, the environment and development
4 Demographic transformations
5 Resources, energy and development
6 The environment and environmentalism
7 Food security
8 Worlds apart? The changing geographies of global development
Section 3 Society, settlement and culture
9 Cities: urban worlds
10 Urban segregation and social inequality
11 Changing rural worlds - a global view
12 Social constructions of nature 2
13 Geography, culture and global change
Section 4 Production, exchange and consumption
14 Geographies of the economy
15 Geographies of food production
16 The geographies of global production networks
17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift
18 Geographies of money, finance and crisis
19 Consumption and its geographies
Section 5 Political geographies: geopolitics, territory, states, citizenship and governance
20 Geopolitical traditions
21 Territory, space and society
22 The place of the nation-state
23 The geographies of citizenship
24 Global governance
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