A world of difference : society, nature, development
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A world of difference : society, nature, development
Guilford Press, c1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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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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