Bücher der Reihe Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications

Offers a geographical and global perspective on the implications of world population growth. This text focuses on the key factors that shape the global environment. It is useful for readers concerned with the intertwined issues of population, environment, and health.

This text explores religious fundamentalism as a social and cultural phenomenon, one whose influence has spread dramatically. It focuses on the regional factors that encourage the development of fundamentalist movements and on the local to international consequences of the rise of such movements.

This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. Shannon O'Lear challenges accepted assumptions about human-environment relationships and demonstrates how we can generate more just and creative approaches to assessing risk and security.

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.