A world of difference : society, nature, development
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A world of difference : society, nature, development
Guilford Press, c1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 24 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 570-588
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A text for development courses, this book takes a geographic approach to understanding development in the global context. Along with the standard overview of development theory, this work introduces students to the differences between North and South: from the physical distribution of rain water and soil type, to the workings of trade in everything from raw materials to the products of financial services.
Table of Contents
- The inevitability of differences
- culture, kinship, and gender
- institutional/structural inequalities
- views from the core - propagating development
- views from the periphery - encountering development
- population growth and the demographic
- the atmospheric cycle and the hydrologic cycle
- the carbon cycle
- soils, vegetation, pests, water and agriculture
- the earth's crust as a resource
- disease and health
- the management of tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems
- the historical geography of colonialism and the slave trade
- colonialism as spatial and labour control system
- the end of colonialism and the promise of free trade
- trading primary commodities
- peripheral industrialization - paths and strategies
- urbanization, migration, and spatial polarization within the periphery
- trans-national production
- foreign branch plants and economic growth
- money and global financial markets
- borrowing money - aid, debt, and structural adjustment
- tourism and development
- toward a different world.
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