Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World

✍ Scribed by Les Rowntree, Martin Lewis, Marie Price, William Wyckoff

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 563
• Edition: 5th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For courses in world regional geography.

Helping Students Understand the Tension Between Globalization and Local Diversity.

This contemporary approach to World Regional Geography introduces the latest ideas, concepts, and theories in geography while also developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals of world regions. It helps professors convey a strong sense of place and an understanding of the connections within and between world regions. "Globalization and Diversity" focuses on the core materials that students need in a World Regional Geography course. The 5th Edition features new content on everyday globalization, and the tools, skills, and applied approach of contemporary geography.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Concepts of World Geography
2. Physical Geography and the Environment
3. North America
4. Latin America
5. The Caribbean
6. Sub-Saharan Africa
7. Southwest Asia and North Africa
8. Europe
9. The Russian Domain
10. Central Asia
11. East Asia
12. South Asia
13. Southeast Asia
14. Australia and Oceania