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Autor Sallie A. Marston, Paul L. Knox, Diana M. Livermanen Limba Engleză Carte – 31 mar 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780321707383
ISBN-10: 0321707389
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0321707389
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Descriere
Pearson eText gives you access to the text whenever and wherever you can access the Internet. The eText pages look exactly like the printed text, and include powerful interactive and customization functions. This does not include the actual bound book. This is the access code card for the eText version.
The Fourth Edition of World Regions in Global Context retains its strong global sensibility and its emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. This revision is more user-friendly in the organization of the material in each chapter. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of world-spanning systems; therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. By studying regions, you'll not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change.
The Fourth Edition of World Regions in Global Context retains its strong global sensibility and its emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. This revision is more user-friendly in the organization of the material in each chapter. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of world-spanning systems; therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. By studying regions, you'll not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change.
Cuprins
1. World Regions in Global Context
2. Europe
3. The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus
4. Middle East and North Africa
5. Sub-Saharan Africa
6. The United States and Canada
7. Latin America
8. East Asia
9. South Asia
10. Southeast Asia
11. Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
2. Europe
3. The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus
4. Middle East and North Africa
5. Sub-Saharan Africa
6. The United States and Canada
7. Latin America
8. East Asia
9. South Asia
10. Southeast Asia
11. Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
Notă biografică
Sallie A. Marston received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1986. Her teaching focuses on the historical, social, and cultural aspects of American urbanization, with particular emphasis on race, class, gender, and ethnicity issues. She received the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award in 1989. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. In 1994/1995 she served as interim director of Women's Studies and the Southwest Institute for Research on Women. She is currently a professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona.
Paul L. Knox received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Sheffield, England. After teaching in the United Kingdom for several years, he moved to the United States to take a position as professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. His teaching centers on urban and regional development, with an emphasis on comparative study. He has written several books on aspects of economic geography, social geography, and urbanization. He serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is co-editor on a series of books on world cities. In 1996 he was appointed to the position of University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, where he currently serves as Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and International Director of the Metropolitan Institute.
Diana M. Liverman received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, and also studied at the University of Toronto, Canada, and University College London, England. Born in Accra, Ghana, she is currently the director of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, where she also holds Oxford University's first established Chair of Environmental Science. Previously, she was professor of geography and regional development and the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona; in 1993 she received a teaching award from Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching focuses on global environmental issues and on Latin America, and she is an editor of the Journal of Latin American Geography. Diana has served on several national and international advisory committees dealing with environmental issues and has written recent journal articles and book chapters on such topics as natural disasters, climate change, and environmental policy in Mexico.
Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kentucky in 2000. He is currently Professor and Chair of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, where he has taught since graduating from Kentucky. He has held a Visiting Research Fellow post at The Australian National University, and completed National Science Foundation supported research in Thailand. His current research reflects his ongoing interests in the areas of social and health geography, with a particular emphasis on HIV transmission, the care of people living with HIV and AIDS, and homelessness. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on his research, and he recently completed an upper-division textbook on social geography. His teaching focuses on social geography, geographic thought, and geographic methodology. He also teaches a number of general education courses in geography, including world regional geography, which he first began teaching as a graduate student in 1995.
Paul Robbins received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 1996. He has taught at the University of Arizona since 2005. Prior to this, he taught at Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, and Eastern Connecticut State University. His teaching and research focuses on the relationships between individuals (homeowners, hunters, professional foresters), environmental actors (lawns, elk, mesquite trees), and the institutions that connect them. He and his students seek to explain human environmental practices and knowledges, the influence the environment has on human behavior and organization, and the implications this holds for ecosystem health, local community, and social justice. Past projects have examined chemical use in the suburban United States, elk management in Montana, forest product collection in New England, and wolf conservation in India.
Paul L. Knox received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Sheffield, England. After teaching in the United Kingdom for several years, he moved to the United States to take a position as professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. His teaching centers on urban and regional development, with an emphasis on comparative study. He has written several books on aspects of economic geography, social geography, and urbanization. He serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is co-editor on a series of books on world cities. In 1996 he was appointed to the position of University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, where he currently serves as Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and International Director of the Metropolitan Institute.
Diana M. Liverman received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, and also studied at the University of Toronto, Canada, and University College London, England. Born in Accra, Ghana, she is currently the director of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, where she also holds Oxford University's first established Chair of Environmental Science. Previously, she was professor of geography and regional development and the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona; in 1993 she received a teaching award from Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching focuses on global environmental issues and on Latin America, and she is an editor of the Journal of Latin American Geography. Diana has served on several national and international advisory committees dealing with environmental issues and has written recent journal articles and book chapters on such topics as natural disasters, climate change, and environmental policy in Mexico.
Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kentucky in 2000. He is currently Professor and Chair of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, where he has taught since graduating from Kentucky. He has held a Visiting Research Fellow post at The Australian National University, and completed National Science Foundation supported research in Thailand. His current research reflects his ongoing interests in the areas of social and health geography, with a particular emphasis on HIV transmission, the care of people living with HIV and AIDS, and homelessness. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on his research, and he recently completed an upper-division textbook on social geography. His teaching focuses on social geography, geographic thought, and geographic methodology. He also teaches a number of general education courses in geography, including world regional geography, which he first began teaching as a graduate student in 1995.
Paul Robbins received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 1996. He has taught at the University of Arizona since 2005. Prior to this, he taught at Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, and Eastern Connecticut State University. His teaching and research focuses on the relationships between individuals (homeowners, hunters, professional foresters), environmental actors (lawns, elk, mesquite trees), and the institutions that connect them. He and his students seek to explain human environmental practices and knowledges, the influence the environment has on human behavior and organization, and the implications this holds for ecosystem health, local community, and social justice. Past projects have examined chemical use in the suburban United States, elk management in Montana, forest product collection in New England, and wolf conservation in India.
Caracteristici
• The Global Geographies framework emphasizes the interdependence of places and processes at different scales. Thus, one of the chief organizing principles in the book is how globalization frames the social and cultural construction of particular places and regions at these various scales.
—This approach allows the authors to emphasize throughout the book a number of important concepts, including globalization and the links between global and local, the unevenness of political and economic development, and links between society and nature.
• A focus on process addresses the actions that produce the spatial patterns evident in today's world. Rather than presenting a regional snapshot in time, the authors choose to present these patterns as continually evolving entities, each with a past, a present, and a future.
• A thematic structure organizes each of the regional chapters around a three-part structure that employs the same headings, which are:
— Environment and Society
— History, Economy, and Demographic Change
— Culture and Politics
• An emphasis on fundamentals explores the basics of geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge that are necessary to build a geographic understanding of today’s world, and to sustain a lifelong geographic imagination.
• Superior cartography and photography offer a rich, diverse cartographic and photographic program with hundreds of maps and photos that help professors better teach their students the important spatial elements inherent to geography.
• Signature Region boxes focus on smaller, more specific areas within a larger region to provide students with a deeper sense of what it must be like to live in such a place.
• Geographies of Indulgence, Desire, and Addiction is a feature linking people in one world region to people throughout the world through a discussion of the local production and global consumption of one of the region's primary commodities.
—This approach allows the authors to emphasize throughout the book a number of important concepts, including globalization and the links between global and local, the unevenness of political and economic development, and links between society and nature.
• A focus on process addresses the actions that produce the spatial patterns evident in today's world. Rather than presenting a regional snapshot in time, the authors choose to present these patterns as continually evolving entities, each with a past, a present, and a future.
• A thematic structure organizes each of the regional chapters around a three-part structure that employs the same headings, which are:
— Environment and Society
— History, Economy, and Demographic Change
— Culture and Politics
• An emphasis on fundamentals explores the basics of geography: the principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks, and basic knowledge that are necessary to build a geographic understanding of today’s world, and to sustain a lifelong geographic imagination.
• Superior cartography and photography offer a rich, diverse cartographic and photographic program with hundreds of maps and photos that help professors better teach their students the important spatial elements inherent to geography.
• Signature Region boxes focus on smaller, more specific areas within a larger region to provide students with a deeper sense of what it must be like to live in such a place.
• Geographies of Indulgence, Desire, and Addiction is a feature linking people in one world region to people throughout the world through a discussion of the local production and global consumption of one of the region's primary commodities.
Caracteristici noi
• New authors Vincent Del Casino and Paul Robbins bring their regional and systematic expertise to the new edition.
• Chapter 1 has been thoroughly revised to emphasize and explain the authors’ vision of “global geographies”—the idea that global systems of connection drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. The authors encourage students to learn not only the critical elements of different places but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change. The introductory chapter continues with a detailed discussion of the major processes—environment/society, demographic/economic, and cultural/political that shape each world region.
•A narrative introduction to each regional chapter, in story form, offers an inviting opening into each region and real-world examples that demonstrate some of the key processes of regional change and development.
• Regional chapter reorganization—Each regional chapter is reorganized, as well as updated and supplemented. This reorganization emphasizes the authors’ vision of global geography and is executed with consistent headings and subheadings that show how each world region is shaped—and reshaped—by major sets of processes.
• A new section on Future Geographies in each regional chapter—The former chapter on Future Geographies (Chapter 12) is now integrated into final sections at the end of each regional chapter. This new section provides a discussion of future scenarios and emerging connections (and disconnections) of the region’s geography, in context of global change and interdependence.
• Online media updates include NEW Earth Report videos correlated to each chapter and associated assessments, and NEW online interactive maps & associated assessments—all hosted online at www.mygeoscienceplace.com.
• Chapter 1 has been thoroughly revised to emphasize and explain the authors’ vision of “global geographies”—the idea that global systems of connection drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. The authors encourage students to learn not only the critical elements of different places but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change. The introductory chapter continues with a detailed discussion of the major processes—environment/society, demographic/economic, and cultural/political that shape each world region.
•A narrative introduction to each regional chapter, in story form, offers an inviting opening into each region and real-world examples that demonstrate some of the key processes of regional change and development.
• Regional chapter reorganization—Each regional chapter is reorganized, as well as updated and supplemented. This reorganization emphasizes the authors’ vision of global geography and is executed with consistent headings and subheadings that show how each world region is shaped—and reshaped—by major sets of processes.
• A new section on Future Geographies in each regional chapter—The former chapter on Future Geographies (Chapter 12) is now integrated into final sections at the end of each regional chapter. This new section provides a discussion of future scenarios and emerging connections (and disconnections) of the region’s geography, in context of global change and interdependence.
• Online media updates include NEW Earth Report videos correlated to each chapter and associated assessments, and NEW online interactive maps & associated assessments—all hosted online at www.mygeoscienceplace.com.
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Pearson eText gives you access to the text whenever and wherever you can access the Internet. The eText pages look exactly like the printed text, and include powerful interactive and customization functions. This does not include the actual bound book. This is the access code card for the eText version.
The Fourth Edition of "World Regions in Global Context" retains its strong global sensibility and its emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. This revision is more user-friendly in the organization of the material in each chapter. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of world-spanning systems; therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. By studying regions, you'll not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change.
The Fourth Edition of "World Regions in Global Context" retains its strong global sensibility and its emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. This revision is more user-friendly in the organization of the material in each chapter. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of world-spanning systems; therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, thus making regions different. By studying regions, you'll not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change.