Introduction to Human Geography, An

Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw, James Sidaway, Tim Hall (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

576 Seiten

2016 | 5th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-08295-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Peter Daniels and Denis Shaw are at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. Mike Bradshaw is at the Warwick Business School. Tim Hall is at the Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Winchester James Sidaway is at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

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

Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	196 x 264 mm
Gewicht	1040 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Berufs- und Fachschule
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-292-08295-X / 129208295X
ISBN-13	978-1-292-08295-0 / 9781292082950
Zustand	Neuware