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Features

• Examination of gender justice, environmental impacts and concerns, and the latest techniques in GIS, GPS, Internet work, etc. — Incorporated into every discussion as appropriate.

• Exploration of the forces at work behind the maps. Because what happens at places depends more and more on what happens among places, we can understand maps of economic or cultural activity only if we understand the patterns of movement that create them.

— Strong coverage of the interrelationships between humans and their environment.

— Geography can be studied close to home.

— Modern Geography is dynamic.

• Application of geographic concepts to help students understand contemporary issues — Each chapter strives specifically to connect the geographic concepts under discussion to an understanding the issues of the day.

• Rich and diverse cartographic program:

— Highlights important spatial relationships

— Features many different maps and cartograms, all designed to provide the best clarity of the concept at hand to the beginning student.

• Pedagogy:

— A Look Ahead. Each chapter begins with a brief outline of the main points to be made in that chapter.

— Anecdotes. An anecdote at the beginning of each chapter exemplifies the sort of real-world questions and problems that arise from the material discussed in that chapter.

— Key Terms. The key terms in each chapter are printed in boldface when each is introduced.

— Conclusion: Critical Issues for the Future. Each chapter concludes with an examination of how contemporary issues discussed in that chapter will continue to challenge us in coming years. Some of these challenges are very real topics of current political debate; some will face humankind all throughout generations.

— Summary. Each chapter closes with a summary of its main points.

— Questions for Review and Discussion. At the end of each chapter you will find a list of questions about the subject of that chapter. These review questions test students’ reading, and answers can be found in the chapter.

• Emphasis on Critical Thinking:

— Thinking Geographically. Answers to the questions in this section cannot be found in the text itself. These questions encourage exploration beyond the text, into the library or out into the community. Some students may find these questions good suggestions for papers or research projects.

 — Critical Thinking boxes. Critical Thinking boxes discuss problems or pose questions for which there are no simple or clear answers. These require students to exercise analytical skills and develop viewpoints. Each Critical Thinking box includes questions to stimulate the thought process about the material in the box.

New To This Edition

• Increased attention to developments in India and China – Woven into every chapter, attention culminates in a box contrasting their roads to development in Chapter 12: “The Great Race.” 

• Chapter 1: Expanded section on GIS and integration of GIS and GPS with other information technologies such as Internet mapping, marketing databases, etc.

• Chapter 2:

– New and expanded discussion of storm surges; graphic of Katrina storm surge and wave heights measured from satellite.

– New Critical Thinking box on the link between global warming and hurricanes.

– Latest data on global temperatures.

• Chapter 3: New focus box on Hurricane Katrina, covering not only the storm but the vulnerability of New Orleans in the context of environmental instability in the lower Mississippi valley.

• Chapter 4:

– Expanded treatment of global warming and its effects in environments ranging from the semiarid western United States to the Arctic. 

– Specific topics covered include droughts and wildfires in the western United States and Europe, disappearance of arctic lakes, increase in freshwater discharge to high-latitude oceans.

• Chapter 5:

– Global ramifications of decreasing and aging populations in the rich countries.

– New threats from both old known pathogens (such as TB) and from new ones (such as H5N1).

– A Critical Thinking box challenges students to think about the paradox of why high American expenditures for health care are not reflected in statistics such as longevity (which is surprisingly short) or infant mortality rates (which are surprisingly high). 

– The challenge presented by soaring global rates of obesity and diabetes.

– Latest information on the genetic analysis of humans and a focus box on the possibility of race-based medicine.

– Recognition of the importance of a new flow of migrants from Africa to the United States.

– Changing demographics of U.S. population and arguments over immigration.

• Chapter 6:

– Judicious coverage of the U.S. role in the world and on-going conflicts that only history will judge.

– New focus box on how politicians find it increasingly difficult to address one audience with comments they don’t want others to hear.

• Chapter 7:

– Continuing language differentiation.

– The continuing spread of English as a second language while it declines as a first language.

– Why did China choose Canadian textbooks, rather than English or American, to teach English?

– Richer analysis of religions and their impact on society and political movements is written by a globally-recognized expert.

– Political ramifications of Christian evangelism as well as Islamism.

– Continuing analysis of the Islamic reformation.

– Different religions’ different approaches to scientific issues (embryo research, global warming, pollution, etc).

• Chapter 8:

– Scientific revolution in agriculture continues.

– New arguments about GM foods.

– Role of rich countries’ agricultural subsidies in sabotaging global trade talks.

• Chapter 9:

– Completely updated statistics on energy, water, forest harvesting, and solid waste.

– Expanded discussion of the impacts of economic growth in China and India on world resource availability and prices.

– Critical Thinking box on whether we should increase the price of automobile fuels

– New focus box on “peak oil.”

• Chapter 10

– New urban environmental concerns.

– New arguments in the debate about eminent domain.

• Chapter 11

– New wars.

– Focus box on Nigeria as a “failed state.”

– How can multiculturalism and democracy be reconciled?

– New attention to borders and border security.

– Updates on Supreme Court rulings on gerrymandering and “protected groups.”

– Discussion of women’s rights around the world expanded.

• Chapter 12:

– Guides to understanding constantly changing rankings of states, prices of commodities, and measures of development.

– Updated discussion of why some countries are rich and others poor and how does globalization of markets affect rich and poor countries.

– The great race between India and China and how their cultures, politics and population are affecting the global economy.

– Does the continuing evolution of the U.S. economy (away from manufacturing to services) threaten the national economy and quality of life?

– New regional focus box on Vietnam.

– How new security concerns threaten just-in-time manufacturing.

– New focus box on construction of new roads in India.

– New focus box on how domestic politics in the United States affect trade policies.

– Is the prosperity of a country’s corporations still tied to that of the nation?

• Chapter 13:

– Results of enlargement of EU and future steps.

– Significant changes in NAFTA, in the integration of the North American transport systems; the material on Mexico largely rewritten.

– Security concerns vs NAFTA opportunity and the role of America as a catalyst for economic globalization: Can this continue in a world withincreased security concerns?

– Updated coverage of the War in Iraq. 

– Relations between Korea and North Korea of increasing concern.

– Discussion of international trade in solid waste.

Table of Contents

 1. Introduction to Geography

 2. Weather and Climate

 3. Landforms

 4. Biogeochemical Cycles and the Biosphere

 5. Population, Population Increase, and Migration

 6. Cultural Geography

 7. The Geography of Languages and Religions

 8. The Human Food Supply

 9. Earth’s Resources and Environmental Protection

10. Cities and Urbanization

11. A World of States

12. National Paths to Economic Growth

13. Political Regionalization and Globalization

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  Introduction to Geography: People, Places, & Environment, Fifth Edition emphasizes that what happens in places depends increasingly on what happens among places—and that mapped patterns can be understood only by recognizing the movement that creates and continuously rearranges them. The authors emphasize the integration of various aspects of geographic processes and systems by discussing what happens in one set of geographic processes and how that affects others. For example, what happens in economic systems affects environmental conditions; what happens to climate affects political dynamics. In this text, the major tools, techniques, and methodological approaches of the discipline of geography are introduced.

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Author Bios

Edward F. Bergman was born in Wisconsin and studied at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), the University of Vienna (Austria), and the University of Washington in Seattle. Today he teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and lectures widely across several continents. When not lecturing or writing, he enjoys Manhattan's cultural and social life.

William H. Renwick earned a B.A. from Rhode Island College in 1973 and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in 1979. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rutgers University, and is currently Associate Professor of Geography at Miami University. A physical geographer with interests in geomorphology and environmental issues, his research focuses on impacts of land-use change on rivers and lakes, particularly in agricultural landscapes in the Midwest. When time permits, he studies these environments from the seat of a wooden canoe.

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