Geography & Atmospheric Sciences

For undergraduate World Regional Geography courses, or for a course on globalization where instructors desire a BRIEF TREATMENT of the CORE IDEAS in World Regional Geography.

 

Globalization and Diversity 2e is an exciting contemporary approach to World Regional Geography that explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. The book's unique approach gives students access to the latest ideas, concepts and theories in geography while concurrently developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals of world regions. The book helps professors engender a strong sense of place and an understanding of the connections within and between world regions.

 

Globalization and Diversity 2e is a briefer version of the popular Diversity Amid Globalization by the same authors. This distillation focuses on core materials that professors and students need in a World Regional Geography course. This process resulted in a dramatic reduction of boxed materials, a consolidation of end-of-chapter materials, and a paring of the chapter length of discussion in the body of the text. The resulting condensed book will be a useful tool for those instructors interested in a briefer text or for those instructors who are concerned about the reading ability of their students.

• Globalization: Globalization and Diversity explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. The book's unique approach gives students access to the latest ideas, concepts and theories in geography while concurrently developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals of world regions. The book helps professors engender a strong sense of place and an understanding of the connections within and between world regions.

 

• Thematic Structure of Regional Chapters

  • While the over-arching chapter structure of the book is regional and organized around the generally accepted major world regions, the structure within each chapter is thematic. Rather than organizing individual chapters with descriptions of individual countries each regional chapter is organized into five thematic sections listed below. This approach fosters a more structured and penetrating treatment of geographic themes and concepts, facilitates comparisons of specific topics between regions, and allows the authors to more effectively highlight concepts important to today's world. 

  • Environmental Geography.

  • Population and Settlement.

  • Cultural Coherence and Diversity.

  • Geopolitical Framework.

  • Economic and Social Development.

  • Fosters a more structured and penetrating treatment of geographic themes and concepts, and facilitates comparisons of specific topics between regions.

 

• Graphic Presentation--Globalization and Diversity offers a highly graphic presentation of the material. Every page is graced by a large-format map or photo.

 

• Superior, pedagogically-oriented cartography program, featuring Standardized Maps for All Regional Chapters–Each regional chapter contains approximately 15 maps. Of these, no less than seven are organized around the same theme and designed to convey comparable material for each region. Each region includes the following maps:
• A chapter-opening map with countries and place names.

• A physical map, showing landforms hydrology, and tectonic boundaries.
  

• A climate map, with climograph call-outs giving temperature and precipitation data for specific cities.

• A "transformation of the Earth" map with call-outs to environmental issues and solutions within the region. 

• A population map for the region. 

• A map of regional languages. 

• A geopolitical map with call-outs to current issues and tensions. 

• This system allows student to compare and contrast concepts and data both within and between regions. Additionally, this system reinforces the book's emphasis on the global effect on local issues.  

• Extensively revised chapter openers:

– New chapter-opening photo on each chapter-opening map, including a caption linked to the major topic within chapter.

– Thematic highlights in the chapter opener for each regional chapter; summarizes a major issue under each of the five themes.

 

• End-of-chapter bulleted summaries – Gives readers an overview of the chapter content by looking first at thematic highlights and then at chapter summary.

 

• Two new tables in each chapter (except for Ch 2, The Changing Global Environment) with current data:

– Table 1: Population Indicators

2006 population (in millions)

Population density

Rate of natural increase

Total fertility rate

 Percent urban

Life expectancy

– Table 2: Development Indicators

GNI per capita (2004)

 Percent population living on less than $2 per day

GDP average annul growth (2000-2004)

Under age 5 mortality rate (per 1000 children)

Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older)

 

• All data within text updated

 

• All maps updated with most current data

 1. Globalization and Diversity

 2. The Changing Global Environment

 3. North America      

 4. Latin America

 5. The Caribbean

 6. Sub-Saharan Africa

 7. Southwest Asia and North Africa

 8. Europe

 9. The Russian Domain

10. Central Asia

11. East Asia

12. South Asia

13. Southeast Asia

14. Australia and Oceania

World Regional Geography/Regional Geography  (Geography & Atmospheric Sciences)

View a Sample Chapter PDF:/samplechapter/0131756958.pdf

Les Rowntree teaches both Geography and Environmental Studies at San Jose State University in California, where he recently completed a term as the Chair of the interdisciplinary Department of Environmental Studies. As an environmental geographer, Dr. Rowntree's teaching and research interests focus on international environmental issues, the human dimensions of global change, biodiversity and conservation, and human-caused landscape transformation. He sees world regional geography as a way to engage and inform students by giving them the conceptual tools needed to assess global issues critically in their larger context. Dr. Rowntree has done research in Morocco, Mexico, Australia, and Europe, as well as in his native California. Current writing projects include a book on the natural history of California’s Central Coast, along with textbooks in geography and environmental science.

 

Martin Lewis is a lecturer in International Affairs at Stanford University He has conducted extensive research on environmental geography in the Philippines and on the intellectual history of global geography. His publications include Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986 (1992), and with Karen Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997). Dr. Lewis has traveled extensively in East, South, and Southeast Asia. His current research focuses on the geographical dimensions of globalization.

 

Marie Price is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University A Latin American specialist, Marie has conducted research in Belize, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia. She has also traveled widely throughout Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her studies have explored human migration, natural resource use, environmental conservation, and regional development. Dr. Price brings to Globalization and Diversity a special interest in regions as dynamic spatial constructs that are shaped over time through both global and local forces. Her publications include articles in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Geographical Review, Journal of Historical Geography, CLAG Yearbook, Studies in Comparative International Development, the Brookings Institution Series and Focus.

 

William Wyckoff is a geographer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University specializing in the cultural and historical geography of North America. He has written and co-edited several books on North American settlement geography, including The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape (1988), The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography (1995) and Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape 1860-1940 (1999). In 1990, he received the Burlington Northern Corporation's Award for Outstanding Teaching. In addition, in 2003 he received Montana State’s Cox Family Fund for Excellence Faculty Award for Teaching and Scholarship. A World Regional Geography instructor for 18 years, Dr. Wyckoff hopes that the fresh approach taken in Globalization and Diversity will more effectively highlight the tensions evident in the world today as global change impacts particular places and people in dramatic and often unpredictable ways.

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