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World Regional Geography Without Subregions: Global Patterns, Local Lives, 7th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1319059767
ISBN-10: 1319059767

Authors: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher (Author), Alex Pulsipher (Author)

Shedding light on the rich diversity of human life across the globe, World Regional Geography Without Subregions uses the daily lives of people living in various regions to help you critically evaluate the global impacts of large issues such as environment, politics, and urbanization.

BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Geography: An Exploration of
Connections
CHAPTER 2 North America
CHAPTER 3 Middle and South America
CHAPTER 4 Europe
CHAPTER 5 Russia and the Post-Soviet States
CHAPTER 6 North Africa and Southwest Asia
CHAPTER 7 Sub-Saharan Africa
CHAPTER 8 South Asia
CHAPTER 9 East Asia
CHAPTER 10 Southeast Asia
CHAPTER 11 Oceania: Australia, New Zealand,
and the Pacific
EPILOGUE 1 Polar Regions
EPILOGUE 2 Space
Glossary
Text Sources and Credits
Index

PREFACE
In this seventh edition, our goal is to show how the activities of ordinary people at the local level are connected to various geographic themes: environment, globalization and development, power and politics,
urbanization, and population and gender. We continue to portray the rich diversity of human life across the world and humanize geographic issues by representing the daily lives of women, men, and children in the various regions of the globe. We make a special effort to be current with the data we use and the analysis we offer. In striving to reach these goals, we have made this seventh edition of World Regional Geography as up to date, instructive, and visually appealing as possible.
NEW TO THE SEVENTH EDITION
THEMES
Teaching world regional geography is never easy. Many instructors have found that focusing their courses on a few key ideas makes their teaching more effective and helps students retain information. With input from instructors like you, we’ve woven five common themes throughout each chapter that provide a framework for students to use as they expand their knowledge of the world and each of its regions. These themes are listed here in the order in which they are covered in every chapter:
Environment: What are the basic environmental characteristics of a region? What are the impacts of human use? How do issues of water scarcity, water pollution, and water management affect people and
environments in a particular region? How do food production systems affect environments and societies in a region? How might global climate change and changes in food production systems affect soil and water resources? How are places, people, and ecosystems in a particular region vulnerable to shifts in global relationships? Which human activities contribute significant amounts of greenhouse gases?
ENVIRONMENT
GEOGRAPHIC THEME 1
Environment: Deforestation in this region contributes significantly to global climate change. In addition, some areas are experiencing a water crisis related to climate change, inadequate water infrastructure, and the intensified use of water, despite the region’s overall abundant water resources.
Globalization and Development: How are lives changing as flows of people, ideas, products, and resources become more global? How has a particular region been affected by globalization, historically and
currently? How do shifts in economic, social, and other dimensions of development affect human well-being? What paths have been charted by the so-called developed world, and how are they relevant, or irrelevant, to the rest of the world? What new “homegrown” solutions are emerging from the so-called less developed countries?
Power and Politics: What are the main differences in the ways that power is wielded in societies? Where are authoritarian modes of governance dominant? Where have political freedoms expanded the
most? What kind of changes is the expansion of political freedoms bringing to different world regions? How are changes in the geopolitical order affecting current world events?
Urbanization: What forces are driving urbanization in a particular region? How have cities responded to growth? How are regions affected by the changes that accompany urbanization—for example, the growth
of slums, changes in access to jobs, education, and health care, and depopulation and decline in rural areas?
Population and Gender: What are the major forces driving population growth or decline in a region? How have changes in gender roles influenced population growth or decline? How are changes in life expectancy, family size, gender balance, and the age of the population influencing population change?