Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631193278 ISBN 13: 9780631193272

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

The purpose of this important new textbook is to provide students with a series of challenging and revealing perspectives on the trends, trajectories and ideas of the 1990s. Twenty geographers from all over the world have been especially commissioned to address the questions of how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change.

About this title

About the Author

Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Peter J. Taylor is Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough.

Michael Watts is Chancellor′s Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

From the Back Cover

The second edition of this popular collection presents 28 specially commissioned essays by leading geographers from across the world, addressing questions about how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. The volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local.

For the updated edition several new topics have been added in order to keep the text contemporary. New material has been incorporated on economic changes relating to world trade and labor, on political changes in the post–Cold War era and geopolitics, on social and cultural changes relating to children, race, consumption, and cyberspace, and on changes in environmental governance. In addition, the editors have written a new essay to introduce the volume which provides a distinctive geographical take on globalization. Existing chapters have been revised or rewritten as necessary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631193278
• ISBN 13: 9780631193272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Johnston R. J., Taylor Peter J., Watts Michael