An introduction to human geography
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An introduction to human geography
Pearson, 2016
5th ed
Available at 3 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
Other editors: Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw, James Sidaway, Tim Hall
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Geography: finding your way in the world
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 twentyfirst-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
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"