World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments, 3/E
Sallie A. Marston
Paul L. Knox, Virginia Tech
Diana M. Liverman, University of Oxford

ISBN-10: 013229835X
ISBN-13: 9780132298353

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 768 pp
Published: 03/07/2007

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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.

• Global Framework emphasizing global connections – 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 various scales. This approach allows the authors to emphasize throughout the book a number of important concepts. These concepts include globalization and the links between global and local, the unevenness of political and economic development, and links between society and nature.

 

• Focus on Process: the stories behind the maps – Explicitly focuses on the processes that produce the spatial patterns evident in today's world. Rather than presenting a regional snapshot in time, Marston, Knox and Liverman choose to present these patterns as continually evolving entities, each with a past, a present, and a future.

 

• Specific Discussion of Place: Pulling it all together — Each chapter concludes with a section entitled Core Regions and Distinctive Landscapes that specifically discusses different places, and that demonstrates how global connectivity and regional process play themselves out in individual places. Rather than emphasizing each country in the region as the more traditional approach does, this section presents a synthesized view that emphasizes the core regions and key cities that drive the regions and the distinctive regions and landscapes that help produce a region’s feel and character.

 

• Thematic Structure – Each of the regional chapters is organized around a four-part structure that employ the same five sub-headings. These headings are:

–Environment and Society in the Region,

–The Region in the World System,

–The Peoples of The Region,

–Contemporary Challenges in a Globalizing World,

 

• Focus on Fundamentals — Explores the fundamentals 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 – Offers 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. Maps at the global scale frequently employ Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Projection. This map centers the globe on the North Pole and arrays the continents around it so no continent commands a central position.

 

• Geography Matters boxes — Examines one of the key concepts of the chapter by providing an extended example of its meaning and implications through both visual illustration and text. Geography Matters helps demonstrate to students that the focus of world geography is on real-world problems.

 

• New to this Edition: 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 — Links 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.

 

• Substantially streamlined presentation:
— Instead of two introductory chapters there is now only one, which is shorter and more concise than either of the two previous editions. 

— Individual chapters have been shortened by anywhere from 3,000-5,000 words.

 

• Revised Core Regions and Distinctive Landscapes sections — Shortens some content and incorporates the remaining revised material into other sections, or into a new and much shorter section called Regional Development.

 

• Streamlined boxed features — Makes them shorter and limits them to only three per chapters: one on Geographies of Indulgence, Desire and Addiction; another on Geography Matters; and a final one on Signature Regions.

 

• Extensively redesigned layout — Includes larger photos (one of which is landscape-sized) in each chapter.

 

 1. A World of Regions

 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. Southeast Asia

10. South Asia

11. Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific

12. Future Regional Geographies

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.

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